Tajikistan has not officially celebrated International Women’s Day for 12 years. Since 2009, March 8 is Mother’s Day. But on this day, the tradition of congratulating all representatives of the beautiful sex has survived.
On this day, we would very much like to pay attention to the problems of women in our society. In our country, it is very difficult for women: both mothers and daughters. There are still stereotypes, especially in remote villages and areas, that women should be completely subordinate to men, tolerate disrespect and even violence, should not learn and build careers.
In current society, many are still married in religious terms, and this is a huge problem, since legally a woman has no rights and realizing that in the event of a divorce she will be left without a livelihood, he suffers moral and physical violence. The suicide of Tajik women is not uncommon and the main reason is complete disenfranchisement and insecurity. There is nowhere to ask for help, it is useless to go to the police, there are practically no social services working with women victims of family violence, there is also no access to legal, medical, psychological care.
Work by the state to somehow facilitate the matters of women in society is not carried out. It seems to be spelled out in article 17 of the Constitution on the equality of men and women, but it is necessary to work in this direction for many more years.
It is necessary to adopt at the legislative level the need for girls to receive education, the inadmissibility of entering into a religious marriage without prior state registration, the inadmissibility and punishment of family violence. And laws need not just be adopted, it is necessary to monitor their compliance, to train professional personnel for their implementation. Establish a system of social protection for women in difficult situations.
And while the state ignores these problems, we want to urge everyone to remember that every woman is someone’s mother, future or real, be kinder and more attentive to each other, do not go past someone’s troubles.
“Paradise under the feet of the mother,” as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing to him) said, the gates of paradise are open to those who value and respect mothers. This is what we must always remember, and this is our true culture.
The Group of 24 political movement congratulates all the mothers of our country and wishes everyone well.
Group of 24 political movement
