Posts Tagged ‘abuses of women’

Tajikistan women beaten, abused and raped in the family

November 24, 2009

Amnesty International USA, 24 November 2009

The authorities in Tajikistan must properly prosecute violence against women as a criminal offence, Amnesty International said in a report published on Tuesday.

Violence is not just a family affair: Women face abuse in Tajikistan, documents the physical, psychological and sexual abuse women face in the family and urges the authorities to address it as the crime it is and not to dismiss it as a “private family matter”.

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