When a woman do report domestic violence at the hands of her husband and reports her victimization to (The family guidance center) FGC center, she can legitimately expect the FGC center to perform two tasks; Firstly, to protect her against further violence; and, secondly, to start bring justice to the violence that she has suffered. In the down of this article you can find how FGC center defense lawyer help women victimized of violence to go back to her normal life. Hence, what is very important for the protection of women against husband violence is how the defense lawyer react when they first learn about the situation. A chain of intervention needs to come into reaction, involving support services, courts decision, case registration, authority behaviors (police) and others. Therefore, it matters that the FGC center take the first step and ensure that women are protected in their homes. Violence is not tolerated, neither in public nor in private; that husband violence is a public concern; and that the offender is held to account for the consequences of his violent behavior.Now gather your attention in a story of a woman who take step to broke chains of violation and move toward her deserved life. (Due to privacy and confidentiality of the client we have been used a given name for the victim of violence)Gulalai was born in Kabul 1371. She married off about 10 years and she has two children. Her husband torture her and take her out of house several times. She said “I am fed up of my life and torture, and want to have my divorce from my husband.” Her “husband beat her up until death.“I cannot see to my neighbor’s eyes due to always calling me in bad word on the street by my husband.” Said Gulalai.Kabul LAC project help her to have access to a female defense lawyer. Her lawyer made her legal documents and has written the petition of separation due to harm and shared it with the Huquq office, and her husband prison. Now this case is under process of court. Finally, after passing several judicial sessions, twice mediation and legal procedures the court made a decision of separation due to harm. Now Gulalali separated from her husband and her defense lawyer is attempting in getting her dowry from her ex-husband.
Mariam is a woman from Kabul. She is educated woman. She graduated from science faculty of Kabul University. She married off with a man who never believed in gender equality two years ago. Her husband was an addicted man he beat Mariam several times without any accuses even until she lost one of her teeth. Her husband forcedly asking her to go to get opium from smugglers. She was very afraid from going to smugglers to get the opium it was misbehavior with her and beat her up several times by smugglers as well. She run away from home and went to one of women centers and ask for advice, she was introduced by those center to the one of JFAO family guidance centers. She found access to a lawyer and her case follow-up seriously with defense lawyer and at the end she has got her divorce. In a country afflict by decades of war and a lack of resources, women suffer disproportionately. Mariam’s story shows how women in Afghanistan are struggling to live with dignity. It also highlights how, in the face of little governmental support women are stepping to change their lives. Afghanistan is still the worst place to be a woman. Despite National and international NGOs efforts since 2001, but still women are suffering from violation and marginalization. “Afghan women need to take their rights with their own hands. We can’t wait for any stranger to liberate us.” Said by Mariam. Justice for All organization is working for empowerment of Afghan women; raising voice of Afghan’s women through advocacy programs, creating an environment to support one woman to other which means, recognize inherent dignity in oneself and all other human beings through acceptance identities. Providing training sessions for the women to know their rights; Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.
A Thousand Girls Like Me review – a brave woman refuses to bow down. This story has been published in the guardian news agency. This case was successfully follow-up by JFAO defense lawyers and raise the voice of Khatera to the international media outlet in order to bring justice to her. Her story starts as in below; An extraordinary film follows Khatera, an Afghan woman trying to bring her rapist father to justice. Holding back tears, a woman relives the trauma of sexual assault, live on national television. A disbelieving man grills her about why she didn’t report the attack sooner. No, it’s not Washington. The extraordinary woman at the center of this harrowing documentary is 7,000 miles away in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is Khatera, a pregnant 23-year-old who has been repeatedly raped and beaten by her father; he is the father of her daughter and unborn baby. And actually, Khatera did report him, to 13 religious leaders. One said he’d have her father stoned to death if the Taliban returned to power. Eleven told her to pray. The 13th advised her to tell her story on television. The film follows Khatera’s fight against Afghanistan’s corrupt legal system to bring her father to justice. After receiving death threats from her uncles, she is forced into hiding with her mother and daughter. When their new landlord discovers her identity, he throws them out. The judge prosecuting her father accuses her of lying – the film’s most wrenching scene. Her own brothers blame her for bringing shame on the family. If her father is acquitted, Khatera herself may be arrested for having children illegitimately. Everything is against her; all the power is with the men. And yet she won’t give up. The details are excruciating. Looking at her daughter, she says flatly: “Sometimes I think about killing us both.” But there is tremendous delicacy and gentleness in director Sahra Mani’s filming, mostly inside the family’s home. Where did Khatera find her voice, her grit? Why does she refuse to stay silent like the thousands of girls also – as she puts it – in her situation? “Because my daughter will grow up and become a woman. I don’t want her to go through what I went through.” The film is upsetting but, strangely, not bleak. This article has been published in the guardian new agency. JFAO has received many international awards for bringing justice to Khatera who fight against her rapist father. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/05/a-thousand-girls-like-me-review-a-brave-woman-refuses-to-bow-down