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Violence against Women down by 11% this year: AIHRC
Violence against women has decreased by 11 percent compared to last year, said Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Thursday in a tweet.
According to the AIHRC 3,477 cases of violence against women have been registered with the commission in the past 10 months.
The AIHRC said that 3,910 cases of violence against women had been registered at the data center of the commission in 2019.
1/ AIHRC’s report on violence against women is out today. The cases registered with us saw 11% reduction compared to 2019, but this may be due to lockdown measures.
English:https://t.co/NuhwZ02r7N
Dari:https://t.co/LCRKHous16
Pashto:https://t.co/laDcSo1reQ— AIHRC (@AfghanistanIHRC) November 26, 2020
The decline could be due to a lack of women’s access to legal and judicial institutions, escalation of insecurity in the country, and the lockdown due to COVID-19.
This comes after the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs said on Wednesday that violence against women in Afghanistan has increased in the past year.
Speaking on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the launch of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, the ministry said that 2,582 cases of violence against women had been reported to them in the past year.
They also said that in the past four months, 34 cases, including murders, have been reported to the ministry.
According to the officials the main cause of domestic violence and violence against women is war and insecurity.
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Russian and Afghan defense officials meet in Moscow, pledge closer cooperation
The meeting focused on the current situation and prospects for expanding cooperation in areas of mutual interest between the two sides.
Russian media, citing the country’s Ministry of Defense, report that Vasily Osmakov, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister, held talks on Wednesday in Moscow with Mohammad Farid, the Deputy Defense Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan for Strategy and Policy.
According to the reports, the meeting focused on the current situation and prospects for expanding cooperation in areas of mutual interest between the two sides.
Russian sources said that at the conclusion of the talks, both parties agreed to take further joint steps aimed at establishing more regular and systematic cooperation.
So far, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has not issued an official statement regarding the meeting or its outcomes.
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Seven family members killed in house roof collapse in Nangarhar
The incident occurred Wednesday night, in the Ghowchako area of district 7, Jalalabad.
Local officials in Nangarhar province report that seven members of a single family were killed and one person injured after the roof of their house collapsed in the city of Jalalabad.
Qureshi Badloon, Head of the Information and Culture Department in Nangarhar, stated that the incident occurred Wednesday night, in the Ghowchak area of district 7, Jalalabad.
According to Badloon, the victims included women and children, while the injured individual was transported to a medical facility for treatment.
No further details have yet been released regarding the cause of the roof collapse.
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U.S. watchdog office that monitored spending in Afghanistan to close on January 31
A U.S. government oversight agency that for nearly two decades tracked waste, fraud and abuse in American spending on Afghanistan is scheduled to shut down on January 31, 2026.
The office, known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), was created by the U.S. Congress in 2008 to independently review how billions of dollars in military, development and humanitarian aid were used in Afghanistan. It conducted audits, inspections and investigations to detect misuse of funds and recommend changes to improve accountability.
Over its lifetime, SIGAR documented thousands of instances of waste, fraud and abuse in U.S.-led reconstruction programs and reported on projects that failed to meet goals or were never completed. In its final reports, the office estimated that tens of billions of dollars intended for Afghanistan reconstruction were lost or mismanaged, and it highlighted systemic problems in planning, oversight and execution of U.S. efforts.
The closure of SIGAR comes as part of U.S. defense policy changes that set a deadline for the agency’s work to end this month.
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