Despite progress in women's rights and freedom since the fall of the Taliban 10 years ago, women throughout the country are still at risk of abduction, rape, forced marriage and being traded as commodity.
However it can be hard for women to escape violent situations at home, because of huge social and sometimes legal pressure to stay in marriages.
Running away from an abusive husband or a forced marriage are considered "moral crimes", for which women are currently imprisoned in Afghanistan.
Now, this is of course a bit of an unusually 'anti' post from me... but what I wonder is about the DEMAND for prostitutes, more so than the SUPPLY. Spend ten minutes looking into the case of Kathryn Bolkovac, UN peacekeeper from Nebraska, in Bosnia after the war there... is on Wiki. Movie last year starring Rachel Weisz, 'The Whistleblower'.
AntwortenLöschenLots of foreign soldiers on the ground make a ready-made market for young prostitutes, no?