New Afghan Law Castrates Women’s Rights
Remember all that malarkey about how the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan would result in a remarkable push for women's rights? Well, the Afghan government has passed a law that allows Shiite men to deny food to their wives if they refuse their husbands' sexual demands. Oh, and a rapist can effectively avoid prosecution by paying "blood money" to his victim.Remember all that malarkey about how the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan would result in a remarkable push for women’s rights? Well, the Afghan government has passed a law that allows Shiite men to deny food to their wives if they refuse their husbands’ sexual demands. Oh, and a rapist can effectively avoid prosecution by paying “blood money” to his victim.
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Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands’ sexual demands, despite international outrage over an earlier version of the legislation which President Hamid Karzai had promised to review.
The new final draft of the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work.
“It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying ‘blood money’ to a girl who was injured when he raped her,” the US charity Human Rights Watch said.
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