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Afghan women self-immolation. |
03 July 2007 |
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 Afghanistan: the shocking rates of suicide among young women
An increasing number of young Afghan women decide that suicide is their only way of escaping violence and forced marriages. Self-immolation – setting fire to oneself – is the most common method. Human rights organisations say that the number of reported cases have doubled in some parts of Afghanistan over the past year.
The BBC’s Rachel Reid went to the main hospital in Kabul to investigate, and Miriam talks to author Christina Lamb and campaigner Charlemagne Gomez about the main causes of this disturbing phenomenon - domestic violence and forced child marriages.
WOMEN’S VOICES LECTURE - Afghanistan: Still a Bad Place to be a Woman. Lecture by Christina Lamb, Tuesday 3 July at Asia House, 6.30-7.45pmMedica Mondiale
Christina Lamb
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