In recent days, a young woman with the identity of “Sarhad Roshandel” from a village in the city of Javanrood committed suicide due to forced marriage and ended her life.
According to our sources, the young woman, after being forced to marry a 50-year-old man, committed suicide by setting herself on fire. She committed suicide to protest the forced marriage.
The main reasons for suicides among women in Kurdistan are family disputes, interference from others, domestic and spousal violence, forced marriages, fidelity to old and anti-woman customs in society, unemployment, economic problems, addiction, etc.