| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/05/23, 5:39 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The number of Afghan women jailed for fleeing forced and abusive marriages, and other "moral crimes", has soared since 2011, according to Human Rights Watch.
About 600 women and girls are in prison for offences including running away from their husband or family, even though fleeing abuse is not a crime under Afghan law. Eighteen months
ago, 400 women were being held for such "crimes", the rights group said,
quoting figures from the ministry of interior, which runs the country's
jails.
The report was released days after Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a landmark law protecting women from violence, because religious conservatives rejected key provisions,
including a minimum marriage age of 16 for girls.There are growing concerns that hard-won rights for women are under threat as western troops head home, taking with them much of the scrutiny and some
of the funds that have helped support progress since the fall of the
Taliban over a decade ago.
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