Tajikistan’s Epidemic of Domestic Violence Against Women – The Diplomat

Domestic violence and gender-based violence is a significant problem across Central Asia, as we at the International Partnership for Human Rights’ (IPHR) highlighted in an article on the topic exactly one year ago. On March 8, this year, we launched a new report called “‘When I got married I lost my life’: Unveiling the Epidemic of Domestic Violence Against Women in Tajikistan,” which documents the continued use of domestic violence against women in the country, the failure of the state to effectively combat it, and the systemic…