GHAZNI (SW): Women rights activists in southern province Ghazni has dubbed the province as “women’s hell” since the number of domestic violence cases have been on the rise.
Domestic violence forces a lot of women to flee and wander in the roads and allies in the province on daily basis.
Despite the number of such cases, there is still no safe house for the victims of domestic violence in Ghazni.
Fatema Rahimi, a member at Ghazni provincial council, told Salam Watandar that the government and human rights institutions have turned a blind eye to women’s plights in Ghazni.
She said that the existence of a safe house in the province could be vital considering the prevailing tradition in the province.
She further said that a number of victims who flee domestic violence seek help from the government and as the government can’t provide them with a safe house, they have to go back to their houses.
Officials at the women’s affairs department in the province said that lack of a safe house has been the biggest challenge for women.
They said that if the victims end up in prisons, they would go through abuse in the prisons.
Fawzia Kakar, an official at women’s rights affairs in the province, said that a number of victims who come from the remote districts and share their problems with the government or those victims who are set free from the prisons, have to spend their nights in hotels.
She said that the department in cooperation with justice and judicial institutions has facilitated shifting the victims to Kabul but for the time being they are kept in prisons in the province.
Gen. Aminullah Amarkheyl, the Police Chief in Ghazni, said that the victims of domestic violence have turned into a big problem for them because there is no proper accommodation for them and the police have to keep them at detention centers.
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