The joint study by the UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, shows police, judicial and government officials throughout the country have begun to implement the EVAW law across the country, but inconsistently, and only in a small number of cases.
The law criminalizes 22 types of violence against women, including rape, forced marriage, self-immolation, child marriage, “baad” (the tradition of giving a girl or woman to settle a dispute) and more than a dozen others.
The study found that in some cases when the EVAW law should apply, prosecutors instead tried the cases under the penal code, Sharia law or used traditional methods for resolving disputes, resulting in lighter sentences, acquittals, or women being tried with “moral” crimes, such as adultery or the intention to commit adultery.
Read the whole article at IRIN News, published on November 28th.
The joint study by the UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, shows police, judicial and government officials throughout the country have begun to implement the EVAW law across the country, but inconsistently, and only in a small number of cases.
The law criminalizes 22 types of violence against women, including rape, forced marriage, self-immolation, child marriage, “baad” (the tradition of giving a girl or woman to settle a dispute) and more than a dozen others.
The study found that in some cases when the EVAW law should apply, prosecutors instead tried the cases under the penal code, Sharia law or used traditional methods for resolving disputes, resulting in lighter sentences, acquittals, or women being tried with “moral” crimes, such as adultery or the intention to commit adultery.
Read the whole article at IRIN News, published on November 28th.