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According to Afghan Civil Law Article 40, "marriage is a contract between a male and female for the establishment of a family." [2] Article 70 sets the legal age of marriage to be 16 for females and 18 for males; Article 71 (subsection 1) gives a girl's marriage rights to her father or guardian before the legal age of 16, and marriages for minors under the age of 15 are not allowed under any ...
By keeping women indoors, the Taliban claimed to be keeping them safe from harm. In late March 2009, Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed into law an internationally condemned "Shia Family Law" which condones apparent spousal rape (in Article 132), child marriage and imposes purdah on married Afghan women.
Afghanistan did not have a formal procedure to identify victims of trafficking. The government continued to run two referral centers in Parwan and Jalalabad . Under a formalized referral agreement established in late 2007, Afghan police continued to refer women victimized by violence to the Ministry of Women's Affairs (MOWA), UNIFEM , IOM, and ...
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
After an online stream of the original production was released in July 2020, [56] the work received significant backlash from Afghans, [57] particularly LGBT Afghans, who perceived it as romanticizing child sexual abuse and criticized the white American writers for orientalism and misrepresenting bacha bazi as an accepted "tradition" in ...
The oldest of her five siblings, Khurami grew up in Samangan in northern Afghanistan with three brothers, aged 10, 13 and 16, and two sisters, a law student aged 18 and an engineering student aged ...
Afghans facing oppression from the Taliban are living in hiding, with one saying “there is no normal life” for them now. Tuesday marked 50 days since the last UK and US troops left the country.
The airstrike followed a firefight between US troops and Taliban forces stationed on a mountain behind the wedding party. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] On 7 November 2008, Afghan officials said a joint investigation found that 37 civilians and 26 insurgents were killed in Wech Baghtu. [ 1 ]