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Online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active women in Afghanistan has significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in Aug. 2021, according to a report released ...
In 2015, The New York Times reported that U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan were instructed by their commanders to ignore child sexual abuse being carried out by Afghan security forces, except "when rape is being used as a weapon of war". American soldiers have been instructed not to intervene—in some cases, not even when their Afghan ...
In 2013, Afghanistan made international news in regard to the story of a woman who was raped by a man, jailed for adultery, gave birth to a child in jail, and was then subsequently pardoned by Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai, as international interest and outrage grew but she was forced by Government officials to marry her rapist who claims ...
Bibi Aisha, another Afghan teenager abused by in-laws, Aisha was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 2010; Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old Pakistani student who was the subject of an attempted assassination attempt and has since become a prominent human rights activist; Children's rights; Women's rights in Afghanistan; Swara (custom)
Afghan women's activists and human rights experts are calling the situation in Afghanistan a gender apartheid. In this documentary, I don’t think the history and background [surrounding the fall ...
What this means for women's healthcare also now remains to be seen: last year, the United Nations said Afghanistan needed an additional 18,000 midwives to meet the country's needs.
Domestic violence in Afghanistan is often exacerbated due to a variety of factors, such as poverty, illiteracy, and narcotics. [5] The international NGO Global Rights reports in a 2006 survey that "more than 85% of Afghan women reported that they had experienced physical, sexual, or psychological violence or forced marriage."
U.S. authorities are now investigating the cases of so-called "child brides" among the Afghans who fled Afghanistan in the past few weeks and are now in U.S. custody both inside the U.S. and in ...