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| Afghanistan |
| Karzai Urges to Stop Forced Marriages |
| 2010-11-25 |
Delivering a speech on Wednesday in Kabul, President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai urged religious holy men and tribal elders to prevent forced marriages and violence against women. He wants them to stop beating their donkeys, too... President Karzai said the Taliban should avoid setting fire to schools and killing students, calling such actions against the principals of Islam and humanity. So's exploding without warning, but I guess that'd be asking too much... While pointing out some progresses among Afghan women, he said men are responsible for an increase in violence against women. Come to think of it, there haven't been a lot of catfight stories coming out of Afghanistan... He classified women and girls' selling, "Bad" (girls are forced into marriage to end tribal conflicts), forced marriages and torture as the main violence against women in the country. "A man who raises his hand to beat a woman is not a man. He is a coward," he said. One of the things that could decrease violence against women is literacy, the president added. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... women's rights organisations slammed the insufficient work of the Afghan government in the fight against violence against women. Women's rights organisations argued that rapers and those responsible for spraying acid on female students should have been brought to justice. Around 2,000 incidents of violence against women have been recorded this year including 14% psychological violence, 9% sexual assaults, 23% forced marriages, according to the statistics provided by UNIFEM (the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Development Fund for Women). It is said that violence against women is mostly kept secret and perpetrators are moving about freely without fear of being brought to justice. |
| Posted by:Fred |