Afghanistan is failing in two major areas in particular: security and good government. Violence has gone up sharply this year, and has spread to the once-peaceful north of the country. And widespread corruption is bedeviling attempts to create a viable Afghan government and institutions to take over when the U.S. and NATO leave.
Afghanistan provides about 90 percent of the world's opium, the raw ingredient used to make heroin. Money from the sale of opium is also used to fuel the insurgency, helping to buy weapons and equipment for the Taliban.
A law meant to protect Afghan women from a host of abusive practices, including rape, forced marriage and the trading of women to settle disputes, is being undermined by spotty enforcement, the U.N. said in a report last month.
The 2009 law criminalized many abuses for the first time, including domestic violence, child marriage, driving a woman to resort to suicide and the selling and buying of women. Yet the report found that in the first full year the law was in effect prosecutors filed indictments in only 7 percent of the more than 2,000 alleged crimes reported.
It looks like the Government that we have put into power in Astan is as much the problem as they were all along. They still have a problem with human rights. Its very good to have laws on the book but is these laws go unenforced they are not worth the paper they are printed on. Thinking about it, that's is they even write the laws down. When there are approximately one hundred forty (140) of the 2000 alleged crimes prosecuted it totally unacceptable.
ReplyDeleteBigdog's Opinion is that A-stan's Government needs to grt their head back on their shoulders because all the see is brown nd that not UPS.