Washington, June 9 (ANI): Afghanistan parliament has reportedly started indicating at new political efforts to curtail women's rights as some male parliamentary members are now publicly threatening their female counterparts in the middle of parliamentary meetings.
The difficulties that many Afghan women leaders are facing while dealing with sexism and discrimination reflect the worries of an average Afghan women that public tolerance and support for women's rights might get reversed in the society, CS Monitor reports.
A staunch defender of women's rights Shukria Barakzai who has run two successful parliamentary campaigns said that a male member of parliament had asserted that parliament is not a place for women in a general meeting, and urged women leaders not to pursue the fight for women's rights.
Barakzai claimed that the conservative members of society and parliament are once again attempting at public verbal attacks against women and the Afghan government has also failed to respond against the public threats and attacks on women.
According to the report, some conservative members of the Afghan parliament had adversely reacted against a 2009 presidential decree that was made lawful by President Hamid Karzai on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) and criminalizes 22 acts of violence against women, including marital rape and child marriage.
The conservative members claimed that the EVAW law does not represent the fundamental tenets of Islamic law and is being imposed on Afghan women by Western countries.
Barakzai and other Afghan women's rights activists however said that Afghanistan's allies such as United States and Britain need to continue forcing the Afghan government to support the EVAW law and implement plans that not only increase women's rights but protect the Afghan women's achievements since 2001. (ANI)
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