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we see. many. ask why we have been beaten who want to leave their abusive husband there is one story that was the worst story which is a girl who had been sold off by her family and she was beaten by the older man who she was forced to marry and she tried to escape and they caught her and brought her back and because she had tried to escape she had to be punished her husband then cut off and cut off her nose. example of what our growth. should not be how we're broke. i'll tell you a story of a young woman i met i find inspiring i'm not going to promise a happy outcome but at least it was an inspiring story she was
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a young woman who was forced into marriage in a very conservative part of the country in the southeast she was forced into marriage at the age of around thirteen and from somewhere she was getting a lot of abuse in this home and she was very unhappy and she found it in his up to run away which when you're coming from an area of the country where women are not seen on the streets alone imagine a girl she was now fourteen or fifteen making her way from the southeast of the country away to a couple and then she found shelter she was lucky. but she then found that had husband's family rose up against a they called upon a lot of the tribal elders in that area they were furious they felt like she brought shame upon her they got the support of parliament they got the support of the minister of interior is an indication of quite how conservative those views are even in the heart of government and in the end this girl faced the president's office the minister of interior parliamentarians and they said to her you must go home you for seamus and she said no if you send me back to that village there is
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not one bird that will hear my death cries kill me here kill me now i'd rather that than go back to this village so defiance was extraordinary this courage in a girl so young and eventually the government backed down and they let her stay in the safe hands she's getting an education she's much happier now she may someday soon get a divorce she's been trying for several years to get a separation. and so i can't claim that she's yet happy she's still having to be very much protected because our husbands family frankly still want to kill her or at least take her back and there she might be a real risk but she is trying to forge a life. poor families can't afford to have. girl children who can't work in the fields so there is. a tremendous
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economic push to marry your daughter off at a very very on the edge sometimes as young as ten or whatever that america's armed forces which are that are there using drugs they need these drugs those materials so. they have so they're through. i was ten years old to lead parents may be leery enough gunmen knowing twenty two this man and his family were all enablers she promised my father to pay money one of my children's father is my brother and my husband doesn't know it we have in court about. woman she her car children. are brought in to force her. to marry me marry me to marty my fifteen barred sort of
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marry my one year small but otherwise who would kill you. how can she. get marya with a wife hold with a kid this practice called bad which is the use of women and girls as compensation crimes so what you sometimes see happening it has been for instance of rape or a mad. they'll be a traditional joker and council a gathering of altus and one of the ways that they can try to result states is rather. punishing the perpetrator of the rape for the murder they'll take a girl from one family the perpetrators family and they'll give that guy. usually in marriage to the victim's family. and i hold until both of them well you see how difficult it is to obtain justice because you are a woman it hurts you because you know that you can do anything to change the situation if you will and this is because society is in the hands of men and maddow
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has someone who at this point the concept of justice is still nonexistent in court . it's very hard for women particularly conservative areas of the country to seek help. sadly if a young girl or a woman goes to the police complaining about something like to master violence or ready for a forced marriage often she'll be met with a lot of hostility sometimes she can be ostracized by society that basically thinks that problem should be kept in the home and we also sometimes see women. until recently a woman could be knocked out for having been raped even the woman when they get raped they go to the gym instead to lessen their why it's not going to go to their close in afghanistan or. really where are the rights of women are
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protected they want to stay there and what are they were managed to run away because of domestic violence they were not about to continue with that. kind of terrible lives they bought their way home and then they did as men draft is that has been trafficked and then. they stopped but we. need to realize that both of them are bettman and that in turn their back to their village. or they get two hundred women organization or they get to an apartment up from an affair which is a farce about the. they try to get back to go belly. up with a warlock with a powerful. monday or stay. or give them the one for their husband. on the public place. and each up their. forty five. at a public place in front of all the relatives. i need help them work fine. six to six
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thousand dollars. you took the put your husband probably because. you put shame on the ledge and on the family name so they have to and maybe their religion and pay the fine. punished by their. killing the one that might use it for their wallets like telling a birth. we are out of your point where the concept of justice is still nonexistent . today we have jungle law if this constitutional law is benefit photo was lost they put the practice otherwise they look like a waste of paper same we have our constitutional. freedom of speech event and inishmaan house we didn't have and we don't have freedom of speech
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element to part of democracy we have been our constitution our freedom for press more than four times to be that your analysis inside of the parliament. in itself proves that lies. which is sort of a dick or lies that were in the beginning of parliament most of these parliamentarians making criminal folk of themselves know it because you had to look up once there was a discussion about the sentence of a woman who was to be stoned to death tribute being the shari'ah judge he didn't want to contemplate the woman could be at least symbolically stoned in the square not being hit but still insulted because he was told that it was still a crime in any case. and at a certain point the response was well she'll be hit with pebbles and bellowed or. it will be. terrible. for example if women do not obey islamic law and where strange clothes go out seducing poor young people.
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especially those who don't have the possibility of getting married. in our opinion this is not the right behavior and no more now we have beautiful laws which apparently are up to protect women's rights so. they're there and push up those laws are in the hands of the word lots and. think that there was a shot of the power so we need to change them and quality we need to change their point of us who are on strike but still. not. this to the. list of rights was the constitution of our group has done is given for them because so we do not or will fly in afghanistan has been that laws and put them into properly we have a lot of warlords walk in and else we have organized criminals we have
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from islam is point of view in islamic law it isn't pretty good for women to work to study or to go into offices. yet he wanted islam does prevent some things for women only women cannot. said to in the middle of an assembly of men. furthermore women are obliged to wear the huge job. if they cover themselves there aren't any problems.
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we need to teach the community that the right. thing but that today. i mean i think. that's. what. most in afghanistan the majority of women married below the age of sixteen. if they don't have a right to a divorce they have the right to what's called a separation it's really hard for them to get where is a man just needs to say divorce three times and that's it he said to his wife. before now afghan women asking for divorce and never even heard of. i don't want to
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i was through now adays to women come to us and ask us to resolve marital issues. sometimes we succeed sometimes we do not. point a couple gets divorced but we don't want anything to do with those women for women it's a long hard struggle to get a separation and one of the major fund says that she doesn't necessarily get access to the children this is would be coming up to please. they ask some information about new patients that arrive to these people. and it's around forty percent each burnt area and two to five years but you have suspected for self-immolation and just the right. percentage or the name or the comment to refight.
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we have a lot of. sense in malaysia. i mean. vision who. unfortunately. ninety nine percent young woman. chose what happened what does happen to you my husband often beats me when we argue he who wasn't my husband. my husband what did he do didley beat you yes we need to be chewed yes. every time that we are here every day yes it's unclear how many of these cases might actually have been killings or attacks
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by men that are dressed up as it were suicides it's this very rarely investigations certainly rarely criminal investigations after these cases take place the men problem in afghanistan. because the economy can be some of some people. not sure. where. to. pull out. and watch and some. of the other problem there. on the border. so you will hear people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of
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afghanistan that a they open office is it would have gone citizen spend lots of money to learn the media think of the literally billions of dollars that have been spent by the us in that country. fifty billion dollars in economic aid has been spent on the reconstruction of the economic infrastructure and social fabric in afghanistan itself there are sixty countries from the international community who manage them. in is where is all this money go and where has all of the help that was supposed to be going to women but the real problem is that no one in fast and afghan provinces in order to improve women situation there very often money returns to external advice or knee. to external free will. this always comes from abroad that are very very small percentage of the total u.s. money for afghanistan is going to the women to do this you have to add also the
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rule of international cooperation there was a study by oxfam from about two years ago that said that all of the money meant for reconstruction forty percent of it returns to sender through the expenses for personnel would prove that. most of the money ends up in the pockets of those who sent the money in. first place is this is upsetting for us because this money comes from people who live in foreign countries money that these people have worked hard to earn and they have given money to their governments with the aim of helping poor countries. capacity building would be built for the local population like the one the pangea foundation built for its women who then ran the project rather than forgot about it i think our lady it's shows that that money is spent and shark camps project money afterward this
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sign out of the country copy and paste it to the country with no sustainability no impact as much as we would expect it they have to be careful about the afghans that they support you know are they afghans that really have the ability to be social changes or are they highly westernized elites who merely run it in geo. thank you for example there was a basher doest who was the minister of planning during the first karzai administration. and then she became a member of parliament didn't talk about it i mean that it down and a man who was much loved by the afghan population. as planning minister he conducted resends as of the local nongovernmental organizations that would reason up in afghanistan since two thousand and none. of the twenty eight hundred nongovernmental organizations including the census doest recommend the removal of
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one thousand nine hundred of them to president karzai. so they must feel cooperation is a tangible problem in afghanistan and you know that and i think there aren't any control mechanisms for how money is invested inside the country. by release but i want them to understand how the money that they give to their governments is used the level are going to. well how many they expect to be used in the right way result of a ship or ship can't legally. then passes through the government manages the reconstruction work. and the work of the local nongovernmental organizations so it is clear that if the majority of the government is made up of the corrupted towards where the money will end up and they have pockets around their little path the international community has encouraged their corruption that affect our country today. hard to believe. that after
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spending you know how. hundreds of billion dollars in afghanistan. afghanistan is the war and the award for the rights of the children afghanistan as. the second country. put their power to afghanistan is the highest. award of. each fifteen minutes one woman dies. in maternal mortality because of lack of access to the clinic a lot of money has arrived in afghanistan to improve the situation of women but i don't think it has brought many improvements. expectation that to be the suspect it as a woman has a human i'm not custom that has its separate classes or subhuman so that's all
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the. machines would be soo much brighter than if you move out soon from phones to christians. muslims don't totty don't come. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.
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