MEP: Balkh province is one of the provinces that more women are aware of their rights and they can easily go to places of educational and work.
The strong presence of women in government departments, NGOs and educational and dramatic locations of their activities in the field of media and cultural are of the past years achievements of Balkh province.
Meanwhile, the supply of relative security in the province has provided work availability for women that in most provinces of Afghanistan may not exist for women.
However, the recorded cases of violence against women in Balkh Women Affairs Department, still indicate that women buckle up with problems of domestic violence in the province.
According to the head of the Balkh Women Affairs, in the last six months of the current year, 286 cases of violence against women have been registered.
Shahla Hadid head of the Balkh Women Affairs in an interview with the Middle East Press reporter Mehrabuddin Ibrahimi said, “in the first quarter of 1385, the solar year, a total of 286 cases of violence against women that the majority of the cases of domestic violence recorded by the department.”
According to Hadid, most of the cases of domestic violence are murder, beating, rape and cut up.
“The increase in the graphic registration of cases of violence against women is however an expression of awareness among the people about their rights in Balkh and on the other hand acquiring more fields to provide courts and women’s rights organizations in the province” she noted.
Head of Balkh Women Affairs also expressed women’s access to educational institutions and business, the rate of women’s participation in different fields in province than any other provinces in the country’s north called contentment.
Women’s rights activists in Mazar-e Sharif also express satisfaction on a strong presence of women in educational and job institutions but they do not only put this process enough for Balkh women.
Balkh province is a safe province of Afghanistan where women and girls can appear in public freely and work in government offices, the case where in a number of provinces known as red dot.