in the book it says the justice system is falling far short of helping these women that are on the sagnac problem and about our promise we have nine women prosecutors and most provinces and women police family courts whenever a woman is accused of something and there's no one to help her with us these judges are listening to a case of a young girl who wants to break her engagement they tell her to come back in the next hearing a husband wants to divorce his wife because she visited her parents for a week without his permission you know a lot of women feel helpless and even in the rare situations where they cases get to court if you know justice has not been served in the last six to seven years the problem of women burning themselves has grown especially in herat and kandahar provinces to suicide because women feel they have no way out afghan court officials say they have enough to deal with even before trying to help these women were freed and all but i had the ability a three decade war has damaged the capacity of the afghan judicial system we've had fifteen judges killed across the cou