No Justice, ‘No Value’ for Women in a Lawless Afghan Province
Fawzia Koofi said that There have been 118 registered cases of violence against women
in Ghor in the past year, and those are only cases that have been reported,
She and her family had been expelled from their village in Ghor Province
because her teenage daughter, Mah Yamsar, was said to have brought dishonor by becoming pregnant out of wedlock.
Mah Yamsar arrived ahead of her family in Kharsang, also in Ghor, where the family planned to start a new life.
If Afghanistan is one of the worst places to be a woman, then Ghor, a province so lawless
that people often wonder if there is a government there at all, may be the country’s capital of gender-based violence and abuse.
A third version of the story was told to Mah Yamsar by her 8-year-old brother, who was traveling with Tabaruk at the time.
