{"id":17419,"date":"2020-04-21T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/21\/domestic-abuse-women-in-herat-afghanistan-may-survive-coronavirus-but-not-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-04-21T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T06:00:57","slug":"domestic-abuse-women-in-herat-may-survive-coronavirus-but-not-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17419","title":{"rendered":"Domestic abuse: &#8216;Women in Herat may survive coronavirus but not lockdown&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violence against women is endemic in Afghanistan; with services closed by the pandemic, those working with abused women are terrified for their clients<\/p>\n<p>Every morning Marzia Akbari, a 25-year-old psychologist from the western Afghan city of Herat, wakes up, picks up her phone and starts calling women. Most calls go unanswered. Since Herat was put in lockdown two weeks ago, Akbari\u2019s work as one of Afghanistan\u2019s only healthcare workers helping victims of domestic abuse has ground to a halt and many of the women she was trying to protect have disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very scared for them,\u201d she says. \u201cMany women in Herat may survive coronavirus but won\u2019t survive the lockdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/21\/domestic-abuse-women-in-herat-afghanistan-may-survive-coronavirus-but-not-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence against women is endemic in Afghanistan; with services closed by the pandemic, those working with abused women are terrified for their clientsEvery morning Marzia Akbari, a 25-year-old psychologist from the western Afghan city of Herat, wakes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,934,59,79,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-domestic-violence","category-global-development","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419\/revisions\/17420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}