Showing posts with label Equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Equality. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Sosan's Story: Domestic Violence in Afganistan



The husband doubts his wife's behavior, abuses the mother of 7, together with her elder son they try to kill her by electrocuting her, she survives, she runs away with 3 of her kids to the shelter, refuses to return to her husbands house, gets a divorce, loses the custody of her 7 year old boy to the father, gets disowned by her parents, she can't leave the shelter unless she gets married again otherwise she is under the threat of being killed by her family for being divorced, she gets married, leaves the shelter & loses the custody of her two daughters.