Thursday, March 16, 2017
Kabul (BNA) Attorney General Office (AGO) has declared that more than 2400 cases of violence against women have been addressed this year.
In a press conference, Zarghona Mostaghfar, Chairwoman of Appellate Court on Elimination of Violence against Women said that the exclusive court has addressed 2424 cases of violence against women in 34 provinces of the country.
Based on figures presented by Ms. Mostaghfar, 1375 cases in Kabul, 250 cases in Herat, 125 cases in Balkh and 116 cases in Nangarhar have been met so far.
But, Panjshir with six cases and Faryab with two cases are among the provinces where less cases of violence against women have been addressed, she added.
Of the figure presented in Kabul, 149 cases have been finalized after courts’ proceedings, 157 cases have been returned to primary court, 111 cases sent to Appeal Court and 67 cases have been sent to Appellate Court for further review, she went on to say.
She added that 147 cases have been temporarily closed due to not referring of the affected women.
It has been mentioned in 2nd chapter of article 39 of law on elimination of violence against women that the victims can give up their complaints whenever they want, an action that will result in stopping of addressing their lawsuit. Likewise, based on report of Appellate Court, 115 cases have been proved to be legal and delivered to the AGO legal department and 230 cases are being reviewed by related committees of the department.
The cases of violence against women are referred to the Appellate Court by the ministry of women affairs, police and civil entities, but Ms. Mostaghfar stressed that the cases are now being recorded to her administration by own affected women.
This is while that based on Afghanistan Human Rights Commission report, since the beginning of this year, 5575 cases of violence against women have been recorded. The cases are including 237 murder, 220 self-immolation and 261 sexual assaults.
Meanwhile, Parwin Rahimi, head of department on fighting violence against women said that there were many women attorney generals addressing the cases of violence against women in 23 provinces and the number of women employees in attorney general offices reached 49.
Besides, AGO plans to pave the ground for capacity building of 244 graduated girls from Law and Sharia Faculty through holding training programs. This is while that the reward and punishment culture has caused the powerful individuals not to be punished and act against law as well as do whatever they want in the society.
