Tag Archives : marital rape

According to a very new law enacted in Afghanistan, it is legal to starve a wife who refuses sex. This is already a watered down version of the original bill that stipulates for a wife to have sex with her husband four days in a week. This law was signed just as Hamid Karzai was gunning for reelection. In Afghanistan, marital rape is legal. In Congo, [...]

One of the collaborative sponsorship efforts between the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is a significant research conducted by Global Rights: Partners for Justice and Afghan civil society which discloses the finding that ‘violations of women in Afghanistan are a daily occurrence around the [...]

The government in Afghanistan plans to change a legislation that has invited a lot of criticism internationally, that allows the Shia Muslim married women to be raped and not allow them to refuse sexual intercourse with their husbands. President Hamid Karzai said that he has consulted with the clergy and appropriate changes will be made. The legislation [...]

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai recently signed a law that legalizes rape in marriage. When marital rape is a cause of disdain and concern all across the globe, here is one country where it is permitted by virtue of law. It is said that Karzai signed the law in his desperate bid to win the votes of fundamentalist groups of the country’s Shiite [...]