Latest items for Afghanistan
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: WAM-LAW-1
"... Pushed out of public life and increasingly absent from television and radio, women are also being made less visible. 20 A generation of girls is growing up with fewer visible models of a woman’s life beyond the home, narrowing not only what they may do but also what they can imagine wanting" (p 12).
Variables: WAM-LAW-1
"... Pushed out of public life and increasingly absent from television and radio, women are also being made less visible. 20 A generation of girls is growing up with fewer visible models of a woman’s life beyond the home, narrowing not only what they may do but also what they can imagine wanting" (p 12).
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: RISW-PRACTICE-2
"August 2026 marks five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Since then, they have built and continue to consolidate a system of gender control that is rapidly narrowing women’s opportunities, prospects and hopes for a dignified future: a dense web of decrees has institutionalized restrictions on women’s rights; essential services still available to women are shrinking; and sweeping, ever-expanding controls on women’s freedom of movement are deepening their isolation" (p 4). "The gap between women’s lives today and what they expected before August 2021 is wide and growing. In the April–May 2026 telesurveys, 65 per cent of women said their lives had turned out worse than they...more
Variables: RISW-PRACTICE-2
"August 2026 marks five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Since then, they have built and continue to consolidate a system of gender control that is rapidly narrowing women’s opportunities, prospects and hopes for a dignified future: a dense web of decrees has institutionalized restrictions on women’s rights; essential services still available to women are shrinking; and sweeping, ever-expanding controls on women’s freedom of movement are deepening their isolation" (p 4). "The gap between women’s lives today and what they expected before August 2021 is wide and growing. In the April–May 2026 telesurveys, 65 per cent of women said their lives had turned out worse than they...more
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MISA-DATA-1
"According to the UN report infographic published on page 6, Afghan women are also experiencing a serious and growing mental health crisis. Seven out of ten women describe their mental health as bad or very bad, while 59% report that their mental health has worsened during the previous six months. The infographic explains that continuing restrictions on women’s education, employment, movement, and social connections are making it increasingly difficult for women to cope with the pressures they face" (p 6). "...By closing off education and many forms of employment, these restrictions compound the economic pressures already felt by most women. They are taking a profound personal toll: nearly half report...more
Variables: MISA-DATA-1
"According to the UN report infographic published on page 6, Afghan women are also experiencing a serious and growing mental health crisis. Seven out of ten women describe their mental health as bad or very bad, while 59% report that their mental health has worsened during the previous six months. The infographic explains that continuing restrictions on women’s education, employment, movement, and social connections are making it increasingly difficult for women to cope with the pressures they face" (p 6). "...By closing off education and many forms of employment, these restrictions compound the economic pressures already felt by most women. They are taking a profound personal toll: nearly half report...more
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1
"The systemic erasure of women from public life, including their exclusion from higher education and employment, removes the visible role models that show what is possible and narrows what Afghan women and girls can imagine for their own futures…" (p 4). "While some forms of employment still remain open to women, their economic exclusion has deepened sharply since 2021. The labour market has narrowed largely to home-based and traditionally femaledominated professions, including embroidery, handicrafts and small-scale agriculture, alongside the limited sectors where women may still be permitted to work, such as in health and primary education. Successive restrictions have steadily pushed women out of much of the formal economy: from...more
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1
"The systemic erasure of women from public life, including their exclusion from higher education and employment, removes the visible role models that show what is possible and narrows what Afghan women and girls can imagine for their own futures…" (p 4). "While some forms of employment still remain open to women, their economic exclusion has deepened sharply since 2021. The labour market has narrowed largely to home-based and traditionally femaledominated professions, including embroidery, handicrafts and small-scale agriculture, alongside the limited sectors where women may still be permitted to work, such as in health and primary education. Successive restrictions have steadily pushed women out of much of the formal economy: from...more
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"The systemic erasure of women from public life, including their exclusion from higher education and employment, removes the visible role models that show what is possible and narrows what Afghan women and girls can imagine for their own futures…" (p 4). "According to the UN report infographic published on page 6, educational opportunities for Afghan women and girls have continued to shrink since the Taliban takeover. Women and girls have been barred from education beyond grade six since 2021. In 2024, 76% of women reported reduced access to education since the Taliban takeover. In 2025, 56% reported that their access had declined even further during the previous year, and in...more
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"The systemic erasure of women from public life, including their exclusion from higher education and employment, removes the visible role models that show what is possible and narrows what Afghan women and girls can imagine for their own futures…" (p 4). "According to the UN report infographic published on page 6, educational opportunities for Afghan women and girls have continued to shrink since the Taliban takeover. Women and girls have been barred from education beyond grade six since 2021. In 2024, 76% of women reported reduced access to education since the Taliban takeover. In 2025, 56% reported that their access had declined even further during the previous year, and in...more
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-LAW-1
"According to the UN report infographic published on page 6, Afghan women’s lives have become increasingly confined to their homes. The typical Afghan woman leaves home only once or twice a month, while the typical man leaves home every day. About 52% of women leave home twice a month or less, compared with 96% of men who leave home daily. The infographic also reports that 90% of women need permission from a male family member before leaving home, 75% feel unsafe without a male guardian, 66% limit what they say in public, and 56% avoid public places such as markets and health facilities" (p 6). This information indicates the existence...more
Variables: IIP-LAW-1
"According to the UN report infographic published on page 6, Afghan women’s lives have become increasingly confined to their homes. The typical Afghan woman leaves home only once or twice a month, while the typical man leaves home every day. About 52% of women leave home twice a month or less, compared with 96% of men who leave home daily. The infographic also reports that 90% of women need permission from a male family member before leaving home, 75% feel unsafe without a male guardian, 66% limit what they say in public, and 56% avoid public places such as markets and health facilities" (p 6). This information indicates the existence...more
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: LO-DATA-3
"...The latter is particularly striking in a country where, even before the de facto authorities took power, fewer than five per cent of land ownership documents included the name of a female family member.19 For many women, financial stability is not an end in itself, but a foundation for greater independence and the ability to pursue other ambitions" (p 11).
Variables: LO-DATA-3
"...The latter is particularly striking in a country where, even before the de facto authorities took power, fewer than five per cent of land ownership documents included the name of a female family member.19 For many women, financial stability is not an end in itself, but a foundation for greater independence and the ability to pursue other ambitions" (p 11).
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-LAW-1
"... In 2025, 17 per cent of women surveyed identified harmful social norms – including child and forced marriage – as barriers to achieving their goals. Among separated or divorced women, that figure rose to 31 per cent" (p 14). This information indicates the existence of a law which allows child marriages to happen in Afghanistan under the Taliban (MR-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: MARR-LAW-1
"... In 2025, 17 per cent of women surveyed identified harmful social norms – including child and forced marriage – as barriers to achieving their goals. Among separated or divorced women, that figure rose to 31 per cent" (p 14). This information indicates the existence of a law which allows child marriages to happen in Afghanistan under the Taliban (MR-CODER COMMENT).
Sept. 11, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-2
"... Marriage ranked low among women’s life goals, with just 13 per cent of unmarried women naming it as a priority, compared with 37 per cent of unmarried men…" (p 12). This information shows that the attitudes of Afghan people, particularly women, towards marriage have changed due to the restrictive laws imposed by the taliban (MR-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-2
"... Marriage ranked low among women’s life goals, with just 13 per cent of unmarried women naming it as a priority, compared with 37 per cent of unmarried men…" (p 12). This information shows that the attitudes of Afghan people, particularly women, towards marriage have changed due to the restrictive laws imposed by the taliban (MR-CODER COMMENT).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ATDW-PRACTICE-2, DV-PRACTICE-2
"The Taliban also made sure to restrict the right to request divorce and shut down most shelters for abused women. If a girl or woman tries to escape this tragedy, the 'morality police' pursue her" (para 5).
Variables: ATDW-PRACTICE-2, DV-PRACTICE-2
"The Taliban also made sure to restrict the right to request divorce and shut down most shelters for abused women. If a girl or woman tries to escape this tragedy, the 'morality police' pursue her" (para 5).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"This tightening chokehold [referring to the laws issued by the Taliban which suppress women] has made Afghanistan one of the few countries in the world where women’s suicide rates exceed men’s (globally, they are almost twice as common among males), with 75% to 80% of recorded suicide cases and attempts being women and girls" (para 6).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"This tightening chokehold [referring to the laws issued by the Taliban which suppress women] has made Afghanistan one of the few countries in the world where women’s suicide rates exceed men’s (globally, they are almost twice as common among males), with 75% to 80% of recorded suicide cases and attempts being women and girls" (para 6).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: RISW-PRACTICE-2
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1). "This tightening chokehold [referring to the laws issued by the Taliban which suppress women] has made Afghanistan one of the few countries in the world where women’s suicide rates exceed men’s (globally, they are almost twice as common among males), with 75% to 80% of recorded suicide cases and attempts being women and girls" (para 6).
Variables: RISW-PRACTICE-2
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1). "This tightening chokehold [referring to the laws issued by the Taliban which suppress women] has made Afghanistan one of the few countries in the world where women’s suicide rates exceed men’s (globally, they are almost twice as common among males), with 75% to 80% of recorded suicide cases and attempts being women and girls" (para 6).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: RCDW-LAW-2
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1).
Variables: RCDW-LAW-2
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-5
"And so, the state/group [the Taliban] encourages economically crushed families, impoverished by the Taliban, to sell their young daughters in exchange for a dowry that lets them support the rest of the family" (para 3).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-5
"And so, the state/group [the Taliban] encourages economically crushed families, impoverished by the Taliban, to sell their young daughters in exchange for a dowry that lets them support the rest of the family" (para 3).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-LAW-1
"In general, the Taliban’s system runs on laws that get changed, forgotten or scrapped as needed to oppress women, such as the abolition of the minimum marriage-age law, which made the only 'legitimate' criterion for a girl’s marriage that she has reached puberty or in other words, that she is 'fit for consummation'. And so, the state/group encourages economically crushed families, impoverished by the Taliban, to sell their young daughters in exchange for a dowry that lets them support the rest of the family" (para 2-3).
Variables: MARR-LAW-1
"In general, the Taliban’s system runs on laws that get changed, forgotten or scrapped as needed to oppress women, such as the abolition of the minimum marriage-age law, which made the only 'legitimate' criterion for a girl’s marriage that she has reached puberty or in other words, that she is 'fit for consummation'. And so, the state/group encourages economically crushed families, impoverished by the Taliban, to sell their young daughters in exchange for a dowry that lets them support the rest of the family" (para 2-3).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-LAW-1
"Or the law [issued by the Taliban] that legitimises domestic violence under the label of 'corrective beating', which gives a husband the right to beat his wife, as long as he does not cause fractures or serious injuries" (para 4).
Variables: DV-LAW-1
"Or the law [issued by the Taliban] that legitimises domestic violence under the label of 'corrective beating', which gives a husband the right to beat his wife, as long as he does not cause fractures or serious injuries" (para 4).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-LAW-1
"And if a woman [under the Taliban] survives an attempt to end her life, she usually cannot find treatment, because women are forbidden from being treated by male doctors" (para 7).
Variables: DACH-LAW-1
"And if a woman [under the Taliban] survives an attempt to end her life, she usually cannot find treatment, because women are forbidden from being treated by male doctors" (para 7).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1). "At the same time, the number of female doctors keeps shrinking through emigration or retirement, and because girls are banned from studying" (para 8).
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1). "At the same time, the number of female doctors keeps shrinking through emigration or retirement, and because girls are banned from studying" (para 8).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1
"Two years ago, after an earthquake left Zarghona*, 29, and her family living in a tent, she went three days without access to a toilet and developed a life-threatening intestinal blockage. Surgeons operated and warned her husband plainly that another pregnancy could kill her. A year after her surgery, with no contraception available and a husband insisting he “needed a daughter”, Zarghona became pregnant again. She spent nine months in fear, tried to end the pregnancy with herbs and saffron, and managed just one antenatal visit. When her labour began, doctors in the city of Herat told her that both a caesarean and natural delivery carried a high chance of...more
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1
"Two years ago, after an earthquake left Zarghona*, 29, and her family living in a tent, she went three days without access to a toilet and developed a life-threatening intestinal blockage. Surgeons operated and warned her husband plainly that another pregnancy could kill her. A year after her surgery, with no contraception available and a husband insisting he “needed a daughter”, Zarghona became pregnant again. She spent nine months in fear, tried to end the pregnancy with herbs and saffron, and managed just one antenatal visit. When her labour began, doctors in the city of Herat told her that both a caesarean and natural delivery carried a high chance of...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"Since the Taliban’s informal birth-control ban began spreading across Afghanistan in 2023, the country’s reproductive health system has gone into freefall. Contraceptives have disappeared, clinics have closed and complications are going untreated. The ban was never formally announced, but by early 2023, doctors and midwives in multiple provinces reported the same pattern: supplies arriving late, then in smaller quantities and then not at all. In interviews with the Guardian and Zan Times, women from seven provinces have explained the same traumas: pregnancies they cannot prevent, miscarriages they cannot treat and violence they cannot escape" (para 3-5). "Now she is pregnant again. Her local clinic no longer offers contraceptives and her...more
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"Since the Taliban’s informal birth-control ban began spreading across Afghanistan in 2023, the country’s reproductive health system has gone into freefall. Contraceptives have disappeared, clinics have closed and complications are going untreated. The ban was never formally announced, but by early 2023, doctors and midwives in multiple provinces reported the same pattern: supplies arriving late, then in smaller quantities and then not at all. In interviews with the Guardian and Zan Times, women from seven provinces have explained the same traumas: pregnancies they cannot prevent, miscarriages they cannot treat and violence they cannot escape" (para 3-5). "Now she is pregnant again. Her local clinic no longer offers contraceptives and her...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-2
"Since the Taliban’s informal birth-control ban began spreading across Afghanistan in 2023, the country’s reproductive health system has gone into freefall. Contraceptives have disappeared, clinics have closed and complications are going untreated. The ban was never formally announced, but by early 2023, doctors and midwives in multiple provinces reported the same pattern: supplies arriving late, then in smaller quantities and then not at all. In interviews with the Guardian and Zan Times, women from seven provinces have explained the same traumas: pregnancies they cannot prevent, miscarriages they cannot treat and violence they cannot escape" (para 3-5). "Now she is pregnant again. Her local clinic no longer offers contraceptives and her...more
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-2
"Since the Taliban’s informal birth-control ban began spreading across Afghanistan in 2023, the country’s reproductive health system has gone into freefall. Contraceptives have disappeared, clinics have closed and complications are going untreated. The ban was never formally announced, but by early 2023, doctors and midwives in multiple provinces reported the same pattern: supplies arriving late, then in smaller quantities and then not at all. In interviews with the Guardian and Zan Times, women from seven provinces have explained the same traumas: pregnancies they cannot prevent, miscarriages they cannot treat and violence they cannot escape" (para 3-5). "Now she is pregnant again. Her local clinic no longer offers contraceptives and her...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"Domestic violence also emerges again and again in women’s testimonies, as a cause of miscarriage and a method of control in households where women cannot escape, cannot seek shelter and cannot access contraception. In Kandahar, Reyhana* recounts how her sister Sakina*, a young widow, was forced by her in-laws to marry her brother-in-law. When she objected, they beat her repeatedly. “Each time they hit her, she bled. She lost her baby”" (para 19-20).
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"Domestic violence also emerges again and again in women’s testimonies, as a cause of miscarriage and a method of control in households where women cannot escape, cannot seek shelter and cannot access contraception. In Kandahar, Reyhana* recounts how her sister Sakina*, a young widow, was forced by her in-laws to marry her brother-in-law. When she objected, they beat her repeatedly. “Each time they hit her, she bled. She lost her baby”" (para 19-20).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ISSA-PRACTICE-1
"Humaira*, 38, says she took abortion pills when she discovered she was pregnant with a girl. “My husband wanted a son. If I gave birth to another daughter, he would beat me or divorce me. So I bought medicine secretly.” Her story is echoed by other women in Kandahar and Jawzjan who described miscarriages that were either forced, self-induced or the result of abuse after ultrasounds showed the foetus was female" (para 22-23).
Variables: ISSA-PRACTICE-1
"Humaira*, 38, says she took abortion pills when she discovered she was pregnant with a girl. “My husband wanted a son. If I gave birth to another daughter, he would beat me or divorce me. So I bought medicine secretly.” Her story is echoed by other women in Kandahar and Jawzjan who described miscarriages that were either forced, self-induced or the result of abuse after ultrasounds showed the foetus was female" (para 22-23).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"In Kandahar, Reyhana* recounts how her sister Sakina*, a young widow, was forced by her in-laws to marry her brother-in-law. When she objected, they beat her repeatedly. “Each time they hit her, she bled. She lost her baby”" (para 20).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"In Kandahar, Reyhana* recounts how her sister Sakina*, a young widow, was forced by her in-laws to marry her brother-in-law. When she objected, they beat her repeatedly. “Each time they hit her, she bled. She lost her baby”" (para 20).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: PPWA-DATA-1
"The reproductive crisis has become inseparable from Afghanistan’s economic crisis. A doctor in the northern province of Jawzjan estimates that 80% of the pregnant and breastfeeding women she sees are malnourished. “They have anaemia, vitamin deficiencies, low blood pressure. Their bodies are too weak to carry pregnancies safely,” she says" (para 17-18)
Variables: PPWA-DATA-1
"The reproductive crisis has become inseparable from Afghanistan’s economic crisis. A doctor in the northern province of Jawzjan estimates that 80% of the pregnant and breastfeeding women she sees are malnourished. “They have anaemia, vitamin deficiencies, low blood pressure. Their bodies are too weak to carry pregnancies safely,” she says" (para 17-18)
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-2
"It appears to create a caste system in which offenders are categorised as either 'free' or 'a slave,' with women being placed on the same level as slaves. Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 1-4).
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-2
"It appears to create a caste system in which offenders are categorised as either 'free' or 'a slave,' with women being placed on the same level as slaves. Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 1-4).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-7
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors" (para 7).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-7
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors" (para 7).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"However, the contradiction lies in that a woman must remain fully covered while simultaneously proving her injuries to a judge" (para 9).
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"However, the contradiction lies in that a woman must remain fully covered while simultaneously proving her injuries to a judge" (para 9).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4) This suggests that laws encourage husbands to commit acts of violence, so women probably are not inclined to report DV as often (IH-CODER COMMENT). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out...more
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4) This suggests that laws encourage husbands to commit acts of violence, so women probably are not inclined to report DV as often (IH-CODER COMMENT). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors. Regarding violence against women, Article 32 states that only if the husband beats the woman with a stick and this act results in severe injury such as 'a wound or bodily bruising', and the woman can prove it before a judge, will the husband be sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment. However, the contradiction lies in that a woman must remain fully covered while simultaneously proving her injuries to a judge. She is also required to be accompanied by a...more
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors. Regarding violence against women, Article 32 states that only if the husband beats the woman with a stick and this act results in severe injury such as 'a wound or bodily bruising', and the woman can prove it before a judge, will the husband be sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment. However, the contradiction lies in that a woman must remain fully covered while simultaneously proving her injuries to a judge. She is also required to be accompanied by a...more