{"id":83338,"date":"2016-11-17T04:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T04:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/kunar-in-need-of-shelter-home-for-women\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T04:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T04:47:43","slug":"kunar-in-need-of-shelter-home-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/kunar-in-need-of-shelter-home-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Kunar in need of shelter home for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/11 Novomber\/16 Nov\/Afghanistan_400.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ASADABAD (SW): Officials at the department of women affairs in the Kunar province stated that there is a dire need for women&rsquo;s shelter homes here.<\/p>\n<p>Sohela Babur, the head for department of women affairs in the province, told Salam Watandar that lack of a shelter house for homeless or other women in need is a serious problem the province is in faced with. She noted that several of those women who are victims of&nbsp;domestic violence come to the department of women affairs for help, but they cannot do anything for them as there is no shelter home available in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Sohela Babur noted that a number of women who have survived domestic violence are now protected in safe houses belonging to respectable individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on this issue, Wahidullah Kalimzai, the governor for Kunar province, said that he has asked the central government and the Ministry of Women Affairs to develop a shelter home for women in the province, but so far actions have not been taken in this regard. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kalimzai noted that, for the time being, women who are victims of domestic violence&nbsp;are protected in women&rsquo;s shelter in Nangarhar province.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASADABAD (SW): Officials at the department of women affairs in the Kunar province stated that there is a dire need for women\u2019s shelter homes here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}