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  • Essay / Essay on Violence Against Women in Afghanistan - 1195

    Lida Ahmad says that rape happens because of honor, revenge and hatred. Honor killings and rapes are committed to shame the family. Chapter four of Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, they talk about Mukhtar Mai. She was gang raped because her brother was falsely accused of raping another girl. Mukhtar was raped because her society believed that punishing the girl for her brother's possible actions would balance everything. The brother shamed the other family, now we will shame your family. Although this happened in Pakistan, this way of thinking in small village societies also exists in Afghanistan. Women are raped to take revenge and punish the family. There are men who do not want women to study and go to school in the small villages of Afghanistan. Men rape everyone who goes to school. Fear of being raped prevents girls from continuing their education. Girls who are raped are considered a shame in their society, and some of them usually end up in prison.