Widespread Violence yet Perpetrators go Unpunished: A new UN report on violence against Afghan women
Jelena Bjelica
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Thomas Ruttig
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Violence against women – be it murder, beatings, mutilation, child marriage, the giving away of girls in marriage to resolve disputes (baad) or other harmful practices – remains widespread throughout Afghanistan, despite the government’s efforts to criminalise such practices, the UN has found. Its new report highlights how mediation by government and traditional actors, which […]
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