Today we are launching World Vision’s global campaign ‘ It takes a world to end violence against children’ here in this country. Today, the first day of March, 2017 is very important for World Vision Afghanistan (WVA). One study in Afghanistan estimated that annually more than 2,000 women and girls attempt suicide by setting themselves on fire, with experts saying that this is mostly due to a combination of early and forced marriages and violence. The report also stated that according to Global Rights, Afghan girls who married young were more likely to experience violence than older girls and women and those who said that they were in forced marriages reported nearly twice as much physical and sexual violence as those not in forced marriages. The case returned to the news when a court threw out their 10-year sentence after just one year. The case of Sahar Gul, an Afghan girl forcibly married in 2011 at age 13 or 14, received global attention when her in-laws were convicted for beating and torturing her after she resisted being forced into prostitution. Ī 2013 report by Human Rights Watch stated that the risk of domestic violence is particularly heightened in cases of child marriage. According to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission(AIHRC), poverty, harmful customs and traditional practices, insecurity, and the culture of impunity, are the main reasons for increasing rates of coerced and underage marriages in Afghanistan. The UN has reported that 12 percent of underage girls are forced into marriage every year in Afghanistan. They are also given away by parents to those who demand having them in order to escape retribution if they resist doing so. Instead, far too many of them are married off for economic reasons, as debt payment, as objects offered to resolve disputes, or to gain favor. They are deprived of their basic rights such as education, playing and simply being a child. ![]() (UNFPA, 2016).ĭiscrimination against girl children is widespread here. While in other developing countries teenage girls are exploring and enjoying life, in Afghanistan, 57 per cent of girls are married before the age of 19, about 40 percent are married at an age between 10 to 13 years, 32 percent at age 14, and 27 percent at age 15.
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