“Women and girl survivors of gender-based violence have essentially been abandoned in Afghanistan. Their network of support has been dismantled, and their places of refuge have all but disappeared.”
Since the Taliban retook the country, survivors of gender-based violence in Afghanistan have been forced to go back to their families, live with shelter staff members, on the street, or in other unsustainable situations.“Women and girl survivors of gender-based violence have essentially been abandoned in Afghanistan. Their network of support has been dismantled, and their places of refuge have all but disappeared,” wrote Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary general, in a Dec.
According to Amnesty International by credible reports, survivors have also been transferred by the Taliban into the detention system—including theAmnesty International urged the international community to provide immediate long-term funding to protect gender-based violence survivors and defenders because “they are now at risk of violence and death.
and the Feminist Majority Foundation both also have found that domestic violence shelters were quickly closed by the Taliban as soon as it took over the country, and the group has closed the women’s affairs ministry, replacing it with the headquarters for its “morality police.” “We are very concerned about the safety of the survivors as well as shelter employees, judges and attorneys who helped the survivors of the domestic violence,” said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
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