{"id":40702,"date":"2022-01-17T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/we-are-struggling-two-former-officialsafghan-women-affairs-ministry"},"modified":"2022-01-17T02:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T17:00:56","slug":"we-are-struggling-two-former-officials-at-afghan-womens-affairs-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40702","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are struggling\u2019: two former officials at Afghan women\u2019s affairs ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gul Bano and Karima\u2019s former offices are in the hands of the Taliban \u2013 and they fear for their lives<\/p>\n<p><em>Gul Bano* and Karima* are activists who ran provincial branches of the ministry of women\u2019s affairs in two different parts of Afghanistan. Their former offices have been taken over by the Taliban\u2019s feared enforcers, the <\/em><em>ministry for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. They are now in hiding, <\/em><em> afraid of the men they helped put in prison for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/01\/i-dont-know-where-to-go-uncertain-fate-of-the-women-in-kabuls-shelters\">domestic violence<\/a> and other abuses, many of them in the Taliban or with family links to the militants.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk\/\">domestic abuse helpline<\/a> is 0808 2000 247. In the US, the <a href=\"https:\/\/suicidepreventionlifeline.org\/\">suicide prevention lifeline<\/a> is 1-800-273-8255 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehotline.org\/\">domestic violence hotline<\/a> is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). In Australia, the crisis support service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\">Lifeline<\/a> is on 13 11 14 and the national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/help-and-support\/telephone-and-online-counselling\">family violence counselling service<\/a> is on 1800 737 732. Other international helplines can be found via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrienders.org\/\">www.befrienders.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/we-are-struggling-two-former-officialsafghan-women-affairs-ministry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gul Bano and Karima\u2019s former offices are in the hands of the Taliban \u2013 and they fear for their livesGul Bano* and Karima* are activists who ran provincial branches of the ministry of women\u2019s affairs in two different parts of Afghanistan. Their former o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2796,"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":[46,934,61,44,2410,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-domestic-violence","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40702","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\/2796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40703,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40702\/revisions\/40703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}