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3 Jun 2018 - 16:54
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3 Jun 2018 - 16:54

Abstract

Violence against women is well-known, but rarely understood. It is also well known that Afghan women and girls have a limited scope to enjoy or enjoy their human rights. Indeed, modern Afghanistan’s history is part of a sign of “power struggles between opposing political factions that use women’s rights as a lactam test for Islamic legitimacy.” 1 This struggle to determine the proper role and position of women in Afghanistan is one of the lines of error that forms the rural, urban or traditional division that forms the heart of contemporary Afghan politics. Other factors, including in particular widespread and deep immunity, which intensify and exacerbate the effects of malicious structures, have intensified efforts to respect the human rights of Afghan women whose rights to political bargaining and justice to justice

Introduction

Violence against women, also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence, is collectively a violent act committed primarily or exclusively against women and girls. Sometimes hate crime is a form of gender-based violence, which means that violence against women and girls is explicitly due to the fact that they are women. Violence against women is a widespread and undeniable fact in Afghan society. Political and social transition in Afghanistan creates many challenges for women. It is clear that violence against women is one of the most serious issues that violates not only the fundamental rights of women, but also hinders the development and realization of women’s rights.

The main question

Why is violence against women in Afghanistan, even though it is outside of a project that works for women?

Afghanistan is a tumultuous recent history. Over the past three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet-communist forces and US-led international forces and is in the years between militant groups and the dominant Islamic oppression of the Taliban.

Over the past fifty years, as Afghanistan’s political landscape has changed, women’s rights have been exploited by various groups for political exploitation, sometimes being improved, but often abused.

Violence against women is defined as a “gender-based violence” rule that is likely to cause physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering women. Violence against women includes domestic violence, child marriage, forced pregnancy, “honor” of crimes, female genital mutilation, sexual crimes, sexual violence, and other cases that are committed by someone other than an intimate partner (also as non-partner violence), sexual harassment (At work, other institutions and in public spaces), trafficking in women and a new Afghan law allows men to attack their spouses, children and sisters, without fear of legal penalties, the abolition of years of slow progress in the fight against violence A country that is called the “killing” of so-called “respect”, forced marriage and domestic abuse

Under the new law, prosecutors will never be able to sue cases such as Sahar Gul, a bride who had placed her child in a cellar in a cellar, and burned when she used to work as a cheater for marriage. He became unconscious. Women like Sitara, 31, whose nose and lips were cut off by her husband at the end of last year, could never resist their attackers.

The report (UNAMA) reports on the underlying factors that enable women to sue from their point of view in responding to and responding to violence against them through legal solutions. The report reports on individual experiences of 110 women seeking justice through a judicial system, from registration, prosecution, and through non-judicial mechanisms.

My way to human rights is through the country’s extensive presence across the country. Interviews care professionals and religious leaders and society. In addition, UNAMA Human Rights also relies on researchers, studies, and reports on various issues that hinder the realization of women’s rights in Afghanistan.

Anonymous data from integrated interviews and group interviews with nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations, government employees, police, teachers and religious leaders were collected through interviews with interviewees. Short notes during the interviews were followed up accurately and immediately after the interview. (Note: Audiotapes, while ideal, is not well suited to Afghanistan, so the proposed methodology is used as a standard tool for collecting qualitative data in Afghanistan.) These notes then Professionally translatable and typed in English and translated returned to check the translation of WordPress files translated by the project manager for the accuracy, quality, and identification of the identification, to maintain the quality control. These files were used to analyze qualitative data. Closed interviews conducted by the clinic/hospital staff entered the Excel database for analysis; only 5 of these surveys were conducted, all from Kabul.

This research focused on the personal experiences of women seeking justice. UNAMA believes that this approach, which focuses on women’s experiences, boosts women’s voices and concerns, and so can help improve and reform political reform and promotional efforts to improve women’s access to justice.

The current analysis, based on interviews with 96 women and 14 girls, has been calculated during all legal and judicial mechanisms and mechanisms under the Violence Against Women Act (Registration, Surveillance, Prosecution). The selection of cases was based on the referral of the relevant women’s complaints filed by women or survivors directly to UNAMA. All interviews were conducted with informed consent from women and guards – about minors.

Conclusion

The women and girls of Afghanistan have benefited in different ways from the many changes that have occurred since the signing of the Bonn Agreement (December 2001). Positive changes included the launch of numerous Government-led initiatives to improve governance, reduce poverty, and address the wrongs that kept Afghan women in servitude and the second-lowest ranking in the recently released global Gender Development Index. However, it is also apparent that armed conflict and insecurity, criminality and lawlessness, are on the rise and with it the level of violence that jeopardizes the lives of Afghans, men, women, and children. In this respect, Afghanistan mirrors experience elsewhere which indicates “a near-universal co-relation between heightened conflict, insecurity, and violence against women.”

View expressed in this article are of the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Pajhwok’s editorial policy.

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The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect Pajhwok's editorial policy.

Author's brief introduction

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Marjila Amiri is Master’s student at Istanbul Aydin University, Political Science and International Relations Department.

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