First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.
“I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. “I chose the latter.”
two thirds are still two thirds - whether that’s 3 people out of 4 or 750.000 out of 1.000.000. And given that
I think the numbers are really worrying.
Especially if you consider that in the rest of the world the majority of successful suicides are from males. It takes a lot of disparity to bring it to those numbers.
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Not to be callus, but if 3 people commit suicide it isn’t news. Or at least, its not international news.
Dude, they’re saying it’s worrying if 3 out of every 4 people who commit suicide are women
Without the total number, it could literally be 3 people for all I know. Not that I don’t feel for the women in this situation.
In another reply someone quoted a better article that said ~100 suicide attempts. That’s all I was asking for
The 106 women were from a single province of Afghanistan and not the entire country, just so you know. There are 34 provinces. The numbers are likely even higher than reported due to data suppression.
Do you think it’s going to be significantly less than in other places? What would be the reason for that?