Violence against women is counted as one of the biggest problems that today countries all over the world are facing. Many countries has succeeded to prevent this abominable issue while many others are still struggling with it. Afghanistan, as a post-conflict country, has the most cases of violence against women which most of them remain unheard. Despite the attempts that the Afghan government and other organizations have taken, the violence still exists and is expanding. There is a need for more strong and urgent actions in order to fight with this issue. Violence against women in Afghanistan has many negative impacts on its children, economic and health, and more strong actions need to be taken in order to get rid of it.
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The major issues that they have talked about are negative impacts of violence against women on justice, health, education, business and employment costs. Costs of justice includes expenses of police, legal attorneys, prisons, prisoners support organizations and so forth. Moreover, cost of health includes expenses of hospitals, ambulances, insurances, medicines, money spent by individuals which will cause a poor lifestyle and so on. In other hand, economic impacts of violence against women in education aspect include expenses of special education for children or victim of the violence, school programs to reduce violence against women and more. Then, they have addressed its negative impact on costs of business and employment including, reduction of productivity, output and profits, as well as expenses of programs for creating safe workplace and so forth (Day, McKenna, & Bowlus, 2005). These all shows how major but invisible economic losses are caused by violence against women. Thus, Afghanistan as an economically poor country should pay serious attention in eliminating this kind of …show more content…
However, lack of governments’ ability and will to implement these laws and codes still remain a problem. Between 2012 and 2013, out of 650 reported cases, only 109 of them were legally investigated and the law was applied to them (Mashru, 2014). This shows that out of each 100 cases the law was applied on only 16.7 of them. Hence, the government and other organizations should to take more strong actions.
To sum up, the global problem of violence against women has had significant expansion and impacts in Afghanistan in different areas such as health, economy, education and children. The government of Afghanistan and other organizations has carried out some attempts to eliminate this problem but, they have not been so useful. Therefore, they need to take more strong actions. For example, informing women about their rights, because they never know if they are victims of violence or just a normal part of life unless they know their rights. Other step can be strengthening rule of law so that the state can adjudicate and punish subjects of violence. Moreover, promoting gender equality and supporting women can be helpful in order for people to behave women like a human not a
Recent reports …show more content…
The major issues that they have talked about are negative impacts of violence against women on justice, health, education, business and employment costs. Costs of justice includes expenses of police, legal attorneys, prisons, prisoners support organizations and so forth. Moreover, cost of health includes expenses of hospitals, ambulances, insurances, medicines, money spent by individuals which will cause a poor lifestyle and so on. In other hand, economic impacts of violence against women in education aspect include expenses of special education for children or victim of the violence, school programs to reduce violence against women and more. Then, they have addressed its negative impact on costs of business and employment including, reduction of productivity, output and profits, as well as expenses of programs for creating safe workplace and so forth (Day, McKenna, & Bowlus, 2005). These all shows how major but invisible economic losses are caused by violence against women. Thus, Afghanistan as an economically poor country should pay serious attention in eliminating this kind of …show more content…
However, lack of governments’ ability and will to implement these laws and codes still remain a problem. Between 2012 and 2013, out of 650 reported cases, only 109 of them were legally investigated and the law was applied to them (Mashru, 2014). This shows that out of each 100 cases the law was applied on only 16.7 of them. Hence, the government and other organizations should to take more strong actions.
To sum up, the global problem of violence against women has had significant expansion and impacts in Afghanistan in different areas such as health, economy, education and children. The government of Afghanistan and other organizations has carried out some attempts to eliminate this problem but, they have not been so useful. Therefore, they need to take more strong actions. For example, informing women about their rights, because they never know if they are victims of violence or just a normal part of life unless they know their rights. Other step can be strengthening rule of law so that the state can adjudicate and punish subjects of violence. Moreover, promoting gender equality and supporting women can be helpful in order for people to behave women like a human not a