{"id":52889,"date":"2023-02-24T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/24\/afghanistan-taliban-domestic-violence-women-missing"},"modified":"2023-02-24T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T07:45:16","slug":"farzana-survived-rape-addiction-and-losing-her-children-then-the-taliban-came-now-she-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52889","title":{"rendered":"Farzana survived rape, addiction and losing her children. Then the Taliban came \u2013 now she is missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exiled Afghan psychologist Mariam is desperately trying to trace 15 domestic abuse survivors she was helping before the Taliban seized control<\/p>\n<p>For more than a year, Mariam*, an Afghan psychologist, has been trying to trace Farzana* and 14 other female survivors of domestic violence, whom she was counselling before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>After the takeover in August 2021, the organisation Mariam worked for was forced to close its offices, and many of her colleagues fled the country. But Mariam, who went into hiding and is now living in exile, continued to run a small operation discreetly, providing psychological support to vulnerable women, young people and mental health patients. \u201cBut there are 15 women who are untraceable. I have no idea where they are,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/24\/afghanistan-taliban-domestic-violence-women-missing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exiled Afghan psychologist Mariam is desperately trying to trace 15 domestic abuse survivors she was helping before the Taliban seized controlFor more than a year, Mariam*, an Afghan psychologist, has been trying to trace Farzana* and 14 other female s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2813,"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":[46,59,744,61,44,2410,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-mental-health","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\/52889","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\/2813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52890,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52889\/revisions\/52890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}