Harmful traditional practices against women pervasive in Afghanistan – UN

The 56-page report – Harmful Traditional Practices and Implementation of the Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women in Afghanistan – notes that millions of Afghan women and girls face pain, suffering, humiliation and marginalization from the discriminatory views of the role and position of women, and it stresses that religious leaders and community elders play a key role in both ending and continuing the scourge. -- Harmful traditional practices against women pervasive in Afghanistan – UN
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