Parwana Malik, 9, wearing only a warm-up blanket, balances on her mother’s lap with her siblings, while the family is rescued by an aid group that rescues girls from child marriage. .
“I’m very happy,” Parwana said during the trip. “(Charity) freed me from my husband and my husband has become old.”
Parwana’s father at the time, Abdul Malik, said that he used to cry day and night and beg her not to sell him, saying that he wanted to go to school and study.
After the international outcry that resulted from the CNN story, Parwana was returned to her family due to the community’s backlash to the buyer.
“This is a temporary solution,” said Stephanie Sinclair, founder of TYTW. “(But) what we’re really trying to do is stop girls from selling themselves for marriage.”
Afghanistan is under pressure.
“The international community is turning its back on this country as it faces the threat of a man-made disaster,” said Dominic Stillhart, director of operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Six day tour. In Afghanistan
“Young Afghan girls are becoming the price of Afghan food,” Mehbooba Siraj, an Afghan women’s rights activist, told CNN. “Because otherwise his family would starve.”
Although marriage under the age of 15 is illegal throughout the country, it has been practiced regularly for years, especially in more rural areas of Afghanistan. And the situation has worsened since August, as families have become disillusioned.
“Usually there’s a lot of pain, a lot of abuse, a lot of abuse in these things,” Siraj said, adding that some girls forced into marriage die in childbirth because they. ..