Women at risk of increasing violence in Afghanistan

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Associate Professor Genevienne Malene of University College London says the Taliban’s control of Afghanistan has once again put women’s lives in danger!

The Taliban’s control of Afghanistan has once again put women’s lives in danger and preparations are being made to suppress their human rights in new ways, says Associate Professor Genevienne Malene of University College London. But we all know that the life of women in Afghanistan has been challenging for a long time.

Violence has long been a bitter reality for many Afghan women. According to a 2015 survey by USAID’s Demographic and Health Program, 90 percent of women in some areas of the country have faced violence by their husbands. Women who managed to leave their bloodthirsty husbands and families also often faced further persecution from those we can trust, including the police, doctors and government officials.

Safe homes for women existed in Afghanistan before the Taliban took control. Most of these homes were in Kabul. These shelters were already considered by many in Afghan society to be shameful and immoral. Leaving everything behind it was dangerous for the women living in the safe house to go out. He needed a bodyguard to even go to the doctor. As a global health researcher, I spent the last five years in Afghanistan.

During this time I recorded the experiences of women victims of domestic violence in the country. We spoke to more than 200 women and men across the country about violence against women and mental health. Wherever I have worked in the world, working in Afghanistan was the most challenging. In other countries, women fleeing violence are provided protection by government institutions, but in my opinion this is not the case in Afghanistan. We had to stop our research several times because the situation for women survivors of violence was very dangerous and we feared that the lives of the women we were trying to help might be put at greater risk.

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