While Afghan government is striving to ensure women's rights in conservative central Asian state, some 100 women have committed self-immolation to get rid of family problems, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said in an annual report Saturday.

"One hundred and one cases of self-immolation by women have been registered over the past one year," the report released here added.

The main reasons behind such brutal incidents, according to the report, are forced marriages and family problems.

The number of the self-immolations cases could be higher than recorded as many women and their relatives cannot report to police, according to the report.

"The figure of violation against women and cases of self- immolation could be several times higher than reported in the AIHRC report as many women cannot report to police because of fear of divorce, killing and more violations," the report asserted.

Around 80 cases of forced marriages and 199 cases of physical torture and beating have also been registered over the past one year, the report said.

In the conservative society of Afghanistan particularly in the rural areas, parents usually decide about the life partners of their sons and daughters.

The constitution in today's Afghanistan grants the right of education, work and marriage to women and girls while Taliban regime had confined them to their houses.

"It is the responsibility of the government to arrest, prosecute and punish those violate women's rights and force women to commit self-immolation to get rid of husbands' highhandedness," the report of the Afghan watchdog stressed.

Source: Xinhua