Women and Children’s Research and Advocacy Network: 36.7 percent of Afghan women have experienced violence

The Women and Children’s Research and Advocacy Network, a non-profit organization based in Canada, has recently announced that based on a study it conducted, it found that 36.7 percent of women in Afghanistan have experienced violence and 56.4 percent have witnessed violence.
The organization has published a report saying that it conducted a survey of 600 women in Afghanistan as a sample group and 77.8 percent of them considered the Taliban’s decrees to be the source of this gender-based violence.
The Women and Children’s Research and Advocacy Network says that the organization published its findings in the framework of a report on June 23 titled “The Impact of Taliban Decrees on Women and Girls in Afghanistan” at the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.
The report states that the program, titled “From Commitment to Action; The Global Alliance for the Protection of Afghan Women was held one day before the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women began its review of Afghanistan’s fourth periodic report, at its 921st meeting.
It further states that other factors such as unemployment (50%), poverty (49%), family problems (34.3%), and bad customs (32.2%) play a role in creating gender-based violence in Afghanistan.
The network also highlighted the reasons for the silence of victims of gender-based violence in the country, saying that the lack of legal protection (63.9%), lack of support institutions (49.3%), fear of escalating violence (44.7%), concern for family honor (41.3%), and lack of social support (35.9%) are among the factors.
On the other hand, the Women and Children Research and Advocacy Network added that 94.1% of families in Afghanistan have at least one member deprived of education and 80.8% of girls are looking for alternative educational options.
At the same time, the findings of this study show that 80.8 percent of respondents support girls’ education and 90.2 percent of women have lost their jobs under Taliban rule.
The network has suggested that the international community support the recognition of “gender apartheid” as a crime against humanity within the framework of international law and efforts to criminalize it, as well as support the filing of a complaint against the Taliban in the International Criminal Court.