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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTaliban sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, says UN report
Taliban sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, says UN report
Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, according to a U.N. report published Thursday.
Before the Taliban seized power in 2021, there were 23 state-sponsored women protection centers in Afghanistan where survivors of gender-based violence could seek refuge. Now there are none, the U.N. report said.
Officials from the Taliban-led administration told the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan that there was no need for such shelters or that they were a Western concept.
The Taliban sends women to prison if they have no male relatives to stay with or if the male relatives are considered unsafe, the report said. Authorities have also asked male relatives for commitments or sworn statements that they will not harm a female relative, inviting local elders to witness the guarantee, it added.
Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, according to a U.N. report published Thursday.
Before the Taliban seized power in 2021, there were 23 state-sponsored women protection centers in Afghanistan where survivors of gender-based violence could seek refuge. Now there are none, the U.N. report said.
Officials from the Taliban-led administration told the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan that there was no need for such shelters or that they were a Western concept.
The Taliban sends women to prison if they have no male relatives to stay with or if the male relatives are considered unsafe, the report said. Authorities have also asked male relatives for commitments or sworn statements that they will not harm a female relative, inviting local elders to witness the guarantee, it added.
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Taliban sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, says UN report (Original Post)
sarisataka
Dec 2023
OP
People think that can't happen here but the far right is already talking about it.
CrispyQ
Dec 2023
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redqueen
(115,113 posts)1. So tragic
Women in Afghanistan were going to college in mini skirts in the 70s.
Then once again the US decided to interfere in the Middle East because money.
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redqueen
(115,113 posts)7. So was my dad, who educated me about history
And bonus, not a terrorist.
ProudMNDemocrat
(17,135 posts)2. Soon to happen here if MAGAts get their way.
The surest way is to repeal the 19th Amendment.
For women make up over 53% of the voting electorate.
CrispyQ
(36,697 posts)6. People think that can't happen here but the far right is already talking about it.
It saddens me to think how many right-wing women would go along with this if it meant repubs would be in charge.
JI7
(89,343 posts)8. The Duggars locked up the girl's room as a way to prevent Josh Duggar sexually abusing them
CrispyQ
(36,697 posts)3. Typically, the ones who commit the crimes are the ones locked up.
JFC. I have no words.
Wounded Bear
(58,916 posts)4. Beatings will continue until morale improves...