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Activists voice concern that Afghan women’s rights continue to be marginalised, and nowhere is gender inequality more starkly illustrated than in the country’s flawed justice system.

Activists voice concern that Afghan women’s rights continue to be marginalised, and nowhere is gender inequality more starkly illustrated than in the country’s flawed justice system.

Kabul- A man on trial was sentenced to five years in prison. The accused offered his 16-year-old daughter to the 50-year-old judge of the appeals court to rescind his sentence. The judge agreed. The girl's mother refused. The daughter, barely out of school, too, refused. But the judge started threatening the man saying that he would certainly go to prison if the marriage didn't happen. As the situation grew desperate, the mother kidnapped her own child and brought her over to a women's shelter to keep her safe.

Every day in Afghanistan millions of women and girls make their way through streets, mountains and villages to schools, universities, work places, clinics, marketplaces, etc. The reports on women’s progress in Afghanistan focus on the percentage of women who make or don’t make it to their destinations.

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