A 45 -year -old man married a six -year -old girl in the Afghan province of Helmand, evoking outrage and renewing concerns about the marriage of children under the Taliban government. The American Afghan Outlet AMU.TV said that Taliban officials were “frightened” after they saw the pictures of the ceremony. They prevented a man from taking the girl home and saying instead she could go to her husband’s house when she turned nine.
Despite the will, the marriage remains valid.
According to the hasht-e Subh Daily, a man who already has two wives, he paid a girl’s family money for her. The wedding took place in the Marjah district. Then the girl’s father and the groom were arrested, but neither was formally charged.
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Children’s marriage in Afghanistan has deteriorated since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. Restricting the education and work of women stimulated in time and forced marriage, and families face growing financial problems.
Last year, the UN Women said these prohibitions led to a 25 % increase in children’s marriage and to increase birth throughout the country. UNICEF reports Afghanistan among nations with the highest number of children’s brides around the world.
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently issued arrest commands for the two best Taliban leaders and accused them of crimes against humanity over their treatment with women and girls. The court stated that there were “reasonable reasons” to believe that for systematic persecution, the highest leader of the Taliban Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief judge Abdul Hakim Haqqani were responsible.
In response to this, the Taliban rejected the ICC authority and called this step a “clear act of hostility” and “insult to the faith of Muslims around the world”.
Groups of rights warn that the child’s marriage exposes girls to lifelong damage, including early pregnancies, sexual abuse, depression and social isolation. In many cases, the girls do not have a word in which or when they marry. Some are promised to male cousins at birth of practice called “name” and consider them to be family property.
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In rural areas, girls are also traded for Walwar – the price of the bride paid by the groom’s family based on the appearance, health or education of the girl. Mahbob, a community activist, said to the Afghan Times: “There are many families in our village who gave their daughters money. No one will help them. People are desperate.”
Other traditions, known as Baad, see how girls exchange themselves for settlement of disputes between families. A girl distributed becomes her family’s family. If she is widowed, he can be forcibly married to other relatives of men.
Amiri, a 50 -year -old woman from Uruzgan, said the Afghan Times that she had married her fourteen -year -old daughter with a 27 -year -old man for 300,000 Afghans. “I knew she was too young,” she said. “But we had nothing at home. I used money to feed the rest of my family.”
Afghanistan currently has no solid legal age for marriage. The former Civil Code, which set the age of 16 years for girls, was not restored in the Taliban. Instead, marriage is governed by the interpretations of Islamic law. The Hanafi thought school can be a girl as soon as she reaches puberty.
Taliban’s intervention against women and girls goes beyond marriage. Girls are banned from secondary schools, universities, parks, gyms and public spa. Women cannot work in most jobs, travel without a male guardian, or show their faces in public. Last year, the Taliban prevented these rules and claimed that the woman “loses her value” if her face sees men.
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