Topic > 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 dishonor the family. Chapter four of Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, talks 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 in revenge to punish the family. There are men who don't want women to study and go to school in small villages in Afghanistan. Men rape anyone who goes to school. Fear of being raped prevents girls from receiving an education. Girls who are raped are seen as a disgrace in their societies, and some of them usually end up there