ALARM AFGHAN WOMEN: THE GOVERNMENT OF KABUL REQUIRES ITS CONTROL ON SHELTER CASE!
The Italian Coordination Support Afghan Women (CISDA) denounced the law promoted by the Council of Ministers of Afghanistan in January 2011 according to which within 45 days of its entry into force of the shelters for abused women will pass by the Afghan NGO management control the Afghan Ministry of Women Affairs (MoWA). The Decree
hosts a previous decision of the Afghan Supreme Court - the legislative body most obscurantist of the country - which has CRIME said the removal of women from home to seek refuge in shelters for battered women run by an NGO. The decision of the Supreme Court have limited the ability of Afghan women victims of violence to appeal to the judiciary.
The law also provides for the closing of some refuges, the accompaniment of women by a mahram (male relative or husband), the teaching of Islamic religion and the obligation for women to undergo constant accepted "medical" for the monitoring of their sexual activity. The government says that the management by the MoWA ensure better management of funds and better choice of internal staff. We believe that this measure was taken only to please the fundamentalists and the Taliban, with which negotiations have begun, so, the shelters have been accused of being houses of prostitution and has chosen to keep them under control.
This will have disastrous consequences for women victims of violence: No
male relative, let alone her husband, never accompany an abused woman in a shelter: in most cases are themselves the architects of the violence from which the women would escape.
Rape in Afghanistan is a source of shame and rejection to the woman. If the medical examination proved that the woman was raped, when under government control the victim would be welcomed rather than condemned.
If a woman flees a forced marriage because, once the refuge would be denounced by the government itself, because away from home is considered a crime.
The girls sent home would be living in disgrace and exclusion, if not directly executed, as evidenced by several cases of stoning took place in different parts of the country in recent months.
If the family asked the woman to return home for any reason, including forced marriage, the staff of the shelter could not refuse. What's more, many of the women from shelters, are accused of adultery in their communities. The
Afghanistan is one of the most corrupt countries in the world: there is no guarantee on the control of any funds allocated by international agencies to assist women victims of violence.
The Karzai government, established and actively supported the US-NATO military occupation, it certainly stands for the respect of human rights:
in March 2009, the Karzai government has signed a law designed to hit mostly Shiite women in the community: according to this law, women can not refuse to have sex with her husband and can not go to work, the doctor or to school without his permission.
In March 2007, the Karzai government had failed to secure an amnesty for all crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan in the last twenty years.
In January 2007, the journalist Parwez Kambashkh was sentenced to death by a court in Balkh, after being accused of blasphemy because of his views on equal rights for women. Although Parwez, following international pressure, was pardoned, dozens of journalists are facing the same conditions.
In July 2006, the Karzai government has reintroduced the "Ministry of Vice and Virtue", already infamous under the Taliban regime.
Afghan organizations that are fighting for Human Rights also denounced the continuing pressure from the government to legalize the system of justice informal "(tribal) within which is scheduled stoning of women.
And Italy? Between 2001 and 2011 the Italian government has invested hundreds of millions of euro in the project of reconstruction of Afghan justice. We ask the Italian government and political forces that supported and still support the military intervention in Afghanistan to explain how the funds have been invested to rebuild the Afghan judicial system, since in recent years have been enacted laws that penalize heavily rather than promote, human rights and the rights of Afghan women.
CISDA INFO: cell. 3336868938
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