The attached picture depicts Afghanistan women being publicly beaten by the Taliban. Although these incidents were supposed to have stopped after the Taliban's rule ended, an Afghan woman was recently stoned to death for allegedly committing adultery. The barbaric act was captured on video. The man the young woman was accused of committing adultery with, received a lashing. The murder occurred in a Taliban controlled area near the capital of Ghor making it harder to enforce laws against such actions.
The Taliban's idea of adultery is a woman wanting to elope with a man she loved rather than be forced into marriage to someone else.
Sadly, Afghan women are still not safe from the Taliban. They can be arbitralary accused of breaking "laws" and then murdered without any repurcussions despite laws against it. With such sociatal collapse, Afghan women are on their own and they need vocal support and assistance to have any hope.
Please ask USAID, the leading government agency in the USA to provide aid and help raise awareness of the dire conditions Afghan women face.
Attn:USAID
We (the undersigned) are reaching out to your government agency in the hope that it will do more to provide aid and raise awareness of the plight of Afghan women who are still be abused and killed under the Taliban rule, despite laws to stop this action.
Recently, a young woman was stoned to death in public while being video taped because she wanted to marry a man she loved, not the man she was being forced to marry. While the young couple attempted to elope they were caught. The young man received a lashing for his part.
Please try to do more to provide aid to these women whose life hangs in peril on a daily basis.
Sincerely,
