FAIZABAD (SW): The provincial chapter of the Afghanistan Independent Human Right Commission (AIHRC) officials and women’s rights activists have expressed concerns over the interference of powerful people in addressing cases of violence against women in Badakhshan province.
These officials and activists talking to Salam Watandar said that the inference by the powerful has hampered legal procedures in addressing cases of violence against women in the province. According to them, increasing instability in the province has resulted in the rise of violence against women as well.
Maryam Amwaj, the director of Women for Women NGO, said the inference of powerful and lawless men has an impact on the decision making of the judiciary. “In these cases prosecutors side with might is right”, added Amwaj.
Zafnoon Hassam Natiq, the director of provincial women affair directorate, also confirmed the interferences in the prosecution of cases of violence against women in the province.
Arifa Navid, the director of provincial AIHRC office, expressing concerns over the increase of violence against women in the province stated that 60 women’s murders kills were registered last year, while 9 cases of women’s murdered in the past 6 months.
But, Ahmad Faisal Begzad, the governor of Badakhshan, assured that the administration is taking measures against the surge violence against women and halting the interference of the powerful in the prosecution of such cases.
The women activists in Badakhshan believe that due instability in remote areas of the province media coverage is not possible which results in cases of violence against women remain unheard of.
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