“A few beatings won’t kill you.” This pronouncement, delivered by a judge to a woman trying to divorce her abusive husband, emerged last week from Afghanistan.
Under the Taliban’s gender apartheid there is no justice for women. Instead they are sent back to violent husbands. The barbarity of a criminal code that allows men to beat their wives is so extreme it’s tempting to see it in isolation. But the more I research the global pushback against women’s rights, the more I see how these abominations exist on a spectrum of violence.
