Fact sheet: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

• Out of 1,327 incidents of Violence Against Women (VAW) in Afghanistan:
  • 30.7% were related to physical violence
  • 30.1% to psychological violence
  • 25.2% to sexual violence
  • and 14% were a combination of the three, including kidnapping [UNIFEM]
  
  
• 82% of incidents of VAW are committed by family members, 9% by the community and 1.7% by state authorities [UNIFEM]

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission registered 1,319 cases of SGBV in 2006: [AIHRC]

• 558 cases of severe beatings
• 213 cases of forced marriage
• 106 cases of self-immolation
• 50 cases of murder
• 41 cases of girl exchange
• 34 cases of rape
• 74 cases of women’s property taken away by husband’s relatives
• 198 cases of a lack of support from the husband
• 19 cases of prevention of women in social activities
• 12 cases of trafficking of girls

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs (Legal Department) registered 2,239 cases of SGBV in 2006:

• 769 cases of forced marriage
• 1,011 cases of beatings
• 87 cases of murder
• 106 cases of self-immolation
• 33 cases of rape
• 20 cases of women’s property taken away by husband’s relatives
• 100 cases of lack of support from husband
• 69 cases of improper behavior
• 24 cases of abduction
• 10 cases of girls’ exchange
• 5 cases of trafficking of girls
• 3 women were accused of theft
• 2 cases of property withheld from natal home