United Nations has said that millions of Afghan women and girls suffer from traditional practices such as child marriage and honor killings. A report by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) found that women's rights were being violated throughout Afghanistan and authorities fail to enforce laws protecting them. The report said that Afghan government enacted the Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women in August 2009, which criminalizes many harmful practices, but some authorities were unaware of the law and many were unwilling or unable to apply it. It said that ensuring rights for Afghan women requires not only legal and constitutional safeguards on paper, but speedy and adequate enforcement. UNAMA said that while there were several weaknesses in the law, which does not criminalize honor killings of women seen to have shamed the family's name, it urgently needed to be implemented and necessary revisions could be made later. The report said that women are often arrested, jailed and prosecuted when they run away from home to escape abuse even though running away is not a crime.It said studies had found that half the Afghan female prison population had been detained for moral crimes. The report found that the practice of giving away girls to settle disputes was prevalent throughout the country and studies showed that half of all Afghan girls were married by the age of 15.