As reports reveal families in Afghanistan are selling their daughters so they can afford to eat, a new law has been passed that now makes the rape of girls as young as nine legal. So let’s call this what it is, says campaigner Shabnam Nasimi L ast week, on 14 May, the Taliban instructed courts in Afghanistan that the silence of a “virgin girl” is consent to marriage. A boy’s silence is not consent. A previously-married woman’s silence is not consent. Only girls . Picture what this requires. A