Mina, a 32-year-old Afghan activist, is haunted by her memories of a young woman who was beaten and periodically hung by her head for bearing daughters, not sons. The women had a clandestine meeting in a rural village in the northwest Afghan province of Parwan in 2009, and Mina still remembers the dark spots of all of the scars covering the face
Silenced By Afghan Culture, Scarred By Their Families
For women in Afghanistan, there aren’t many places to turn for protection from a violent husband or mother-in-law — even the law doesn’t shield them from their tormentors.