RSS
RSS
- Filter
- Showing 1 posts filed under: Indigenous [–], Country:Afghanistan [–] published between Mar 01, 2012 and Mar 31, 2012 [Show all]
Afghan women trapped in tribal court system
from the article by Jean MacKenzi in Huffington Post:
....Sakina’s imprisonment stems from her attempts to evade a uniquely medieval form of restitution practiced in tribal courts and known as ba’ad. It is Afghanistan’s version of restorative justice in which women and girls are bartered from one family to another as a way to settle a dispute.
Mar 26, 2012 Human Rights, Country:Afghanistan, Region:Middle East, Indigenous
