UNIFEM Afghanistan Fact Sheet 2008
SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (SGBV)
- Out of 1,327 incidents of Violence Against Women (VAW) in Afghanistan, 30.7% were related to physical violence; 30.1% to psychological violence; 25.2% to sexual violence; and 14% a combination of the three
- 82% of incidents of VAW are committed by family members, 9% by the community and 1.7% by state authorities
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission registered 1,651 cases of SGBV in 2006:
- 558 cases of severe beatings
- 213 cases of forced marriage
- 106 cases of self-burning
- 50 cases of murder
- 41 cases of girls exchange
- 34 cases of rape
- 74 cases of women’s property taken away by husband’s relatives
- 198 cases of a lack of support from the husband
- 19 cases of prevention of women in social activities
- 12 cases of girls trafficking
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs registered 2,133 cases of SGBV in 2006:
- 769 cases of forced marriage
- 1,011 cases of beatings
- 110 cases of deaths by eating opium
- 87 cases of murder
- 106 cases of self-burning
- 33 cases of rape
- 20 cases of women’s property taken away by husband’s relatives
- 100 cases of lack of support from husband
- 69 cases of improper behavior
- 24 cases of abduction
- 10 cases of girls’ exchange
- 5 cases of girls trafficking
- 3 cases of theft accusation on women
- 2 cases of property withheld from natal home
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