A new women-led initiative in Afghanistan is working to break down the barriers to help both victims and perpetrators
Nabila felt her diesel-drenched clothes stick to her skin, her lungs filling with fumes, hot panic rising.
It hadn’t been the first time an argument with her husband had escalated: he’d been beating her throughout their 30-year marriage, even tying her to a tree in the garden outside their small home in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, leaving her freezing in the winter cold.
Continue reading…A new women-led initiative in Afghanistan is working to break down the barriers to help both victims and perpetratorsNabila felt her diesel-drenched clothes stick to her skin, her lungs filling with fumes, hot panic rising.It hadn’t been the first time an argument with her husband had escalated: he’d been beating her throughout their 30-year marriage, even tying her to a tree in the garden outside their small home in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, leaving her freezing in the winter cold. Continue reading…