{"id":5906,"date":"2015-03-24T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T05:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2015-03-24T07:58:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T05:58:26","slug":"displaced-women-and-girls-trapped-in-afghanistans-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2015\/03\/displaced-women-and-girls-trapped-in-afghanistans-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Displaced women and girls trapped in Afghanistan\u2019s cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: NRC<\/a><\/p>\n

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Displaced Afghan females face significant constraints to accessing education, health and employment opportunities, according to a new report by NRC. 7 out of 10 say they have never attended school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFar more attention must be expended towards better identifying and responding to the displacement related protection needs of women and girls displaced in urban Afghanistan,\u201d says Secretary General, Jan Egeland.\u00a0<\/span>

A new report<\/a>\u00a0launched today by NRC and The Liaison Office (TLO), an Afghan non-governmental organization, presents evidence and testimony from women and girls in urban IDP informal settlements across Afghanistan and highlights worrying conditions experienced by displaced females.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The testimony of women and girls presented in the report paint a grim picture of the dire conditions facing women and girls displaced to Afghanistan\u2019s cities and sheds new light on the disproportionate risks they face being increasingly marginalised and isolated. Many of them find themselves kept in \u2018prison-like\u2019 seclusion, and are not permitted to venture outside their homes and unable to seek much needed assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are imprisoned in our tents and we don\u2019t have permission to go out. What is this sort of life worth?\u201d says a 24 year-old woman from the Helmand province, internally displaced in Kabul and one of the respondents in the report.<\/p>\n

Displaced women and girls across Afghanistan\u2019s cities are also at increased risk of forced and early marriage. Representing a form of income, they are increasingly married off to older men who are able to pay bride wealth\/dowry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are being sold in exchange for money like animals. Our rights are ignored; we are often sold to widowers, blind men, disabled or old men and we have no choice to refuse marrying them\u201d, says a\u00a0 23 year-old woman from the Muhammad Aghai district in the Logar province, now living in a camp for internally displaced in Kabul.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis report provides a voice for some of the most marginalised and vulnerable groups of IDPs and should act as a sober reminder of the need to go further in order to meet the needs of women and girls living in appalling conditions in Afghanistan\u2019s cities\u201d, says Prasant Naik, NRC Afghanistan Country Director.<\/p>\n

Download Full Report HERE:\u00a0NRC Report<\/a><\/p>\n

Download Key findings and Recommendations HERE:\u00a0Recommendations<\/a><\/p>\n

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