Female Afghan judge says she was hunted by men she jailed https://thehill.com/policy/cybersec...n-judge-says-she-was-hunted-by-men-she-jailed
State Dept IG opening several areas of investigation into withdrawal: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1281791?__twitter_impression=true
She was sold to a stranger so her family could eat as Afghanistan crumbles https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/01/asia...rriage-crisis-taliban-intl-hnk-dst/index.html Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, giggles with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing. But Parwana's laughter disappears as she returns home, a small hut with dirt walls, where she's reminded of her fate: she's being sold to a stranger as a child bride. The man who wants to buy Parwana says he's 55, but to her, he's "an old man" with white eyebrows and a thick white beard, she told CNN on October 22. She worries he will beat her and force her to work in his house. But her parents say they have no choice. For four years, her family have lived in an Afghan displacement camp in northwestern Badghis province, surviving on humanitarian aid and menial work earning a few dollars a day. But life has only gotten harder since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan on August 15. As international aid dries up and the country's economy collapses, they're unable to afford basic necessities like food. Her father already sold her12-year-old sister several months ago. Parwana is one of many young Afghan girls sold into marriage as the country's humanitarian crisis deepens. Hunger has pushed some families to make heartbreaking decisions, especially as the brutal winter approaches. The parents gave CNN full access and permission to speak to the children and show their faces, because they say they cannot change the practice themselves. "Day by day, the numbers are increasing of families selling their children," said Mohammad Naiem Nazem, a human rights activist in Badghis. "Lack of food, lack of work, the families feel they have to do this." An impossible choice Abdul Malik, Parwana's father, can't sleep at night. Ahead of the sale, he told CNN he's "broken" with guilt, shame and worry. He had tried to avoid selling her -- he traveled to the provincial capital city Qala-e-Naw to search unsuccessfully for work, even borrowing "lots of money" from relatives, and his wife resorted to begging other camp residents for food. But he felt he had no choice if he wants to feed his family. "We are eight family members," he told CNN. "I have to sell to keep other family members alive." (More at above url)