Elsa Bravante

HORRIFIC: The Taliban recognizes child marriage under new law, permitting the forced marriage of girls as young as 9 years old. @mobbs_mentality: “In Afghanistan, the Taliban has now codified child marriage into law, reducing young girls to property to be controlled, exchanged, and violated under the authority of the state. Afghan girls have been denied education, erased from public life, stripped of basic freedoms, and subjected to a system built on fear, coercion, and authoritarian control. The Taliban’s continued assault on women and girls in Afghanistan is one of the clearest and most systematic examples of sex-based repression in the modern world. And the silence of the international community has become part of the tragedy. Under Taliban rule, girls are handed over through forced and child marriages while so-called “consent” can be inferred from silence. A child’s inability to resist is being redefined as permission. Childhood, dignity, autonomy, and safety are being systematically stripped away from Afghan girls in full view of the world. Let us speak plainly about what this means in practice: state-sanctioned sexual abuse of children. At Independent Women, we refuse to look away. We stand with the women and girls of Afghanistan. Their voices matter. Their freedom matters. And civilized nations must have the moral courage to say clearly that any ideology that normalizes the rape and forced marriage of little girls it is incompatible with Western civilization."

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