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| Afghanistan |
| 'Girl run away from home' incidents unprecedentedly increased in Daikundi |
| 2015-09-17 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Women Affairs Directorate of Daikundi province reports unprecedented increase in the incidents of girls leaving homes in order to marry according to their choices. Zakia Razai, head of the Women Affairs Directorate of this province is quoted by VOA news as saying that it has turned into a tradition in this province that a girl would escape home in order to marry according to her choice. She says it is rare to find a couple that has married as normal. Razai said that Daikundi had record incidents of girls escaping from their homes in Afghanistan last year, adding that these incidents have increased violence against women, corruption and even the imprisonment of the escaped girls. The Women Affairs Directorate of Daikundi has recorded 40 incidents of 'girl escaping home' in the first five months of the current year which shows an increase by %15 in comparison to the incidents recorded last year. She says that these marriages usually do not last long and lead to divorce or violence against the girls. She expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the matter and said that these incidents are rapidly increasing. High cost of marriage, Mahr 'dowry' of up to 1,000,000 AFG against against the principals of and force marriage are said to be the main causes behind the incidents. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 "Our girls should be courted, not raffled? And fillies prefer to be snaffled? And you find our curbing Such creatures disturbing?" Afghani horsetraders are baffled. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-09-17 02:54 |
| #1 The Women Affairs Directorate of Daikundi province reports unprecedented increase in the incidents of girls leaving homes in order to marry according to their choices. How strange.~ |
| Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Big Foot4718 2015-09-17 00:22 |