{"id":4639,"date":"2014-07-26T13:27:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T11:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2014-07-29T14:13:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:13:21","slug":"statement-afghan-womens-network-where-are-the-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2014\/07\/statement-afghan-womens-network-where-are-the-women\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT Afghan Women’s Network: Where Are the Women?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AWN(1)\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Where women are?
\nAfghan Women are concerned of their present status in the current
\npolitical process in the country!
\nKabul \u2013 Afghanistan
\n23 July 2014
\nThe continuation of controversies and disputes over the second round of the Presidential Elections\u00a0process in Afghanistan and news and analysis being published the opinions raised, in one hand has\u00a0harmed the democratic elections process as well as it has increased many of serious concerns among\u00a0citizens of Afghanistan especially women regarding political games and decisions behind the closed\u00a0doors.<\/p>\n

Afghan Women\u2019s Network, its 117 member organizations and more than 3000 individual members has\u00a0had visible contribution and accomplishments in awareness, mobilization and political participation of\u00a0women during the last three election terms, Loya Jirga\u2019s, Consultation Jirga\u2019s. Looking into recent\u00a0disagreements and conflicts over the 2014 Presidential Elections, AWN would like to emphasize on\u00a0protecting the decades gains of women\u2019s role in development and their political participation.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Afghan Women\u2019s Network (AWN) declares its position on the latest controversies in Elections\u00a0as following:
\n\u2022 Afghan Women\u2019s Network calls on Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) and\u00a0Independent Election Complaint Commission (IECC) as legitimate authority institutions for\u00a0conducting the elections process; to proceed the development within the legal frameworks in\u00a0order to proof a fair, transparent, just and accountable process.\u2022 Afghan women call on both candidates to avoid derailing the democratic process, wait for the\u00a0final results announcement by IEC and prevent any pre-judgmental statements and political\u00a0bargaining before the final results.
\n\u2022 We call upon both candidates to respect the votes of Afghan citizens, specifically women, and\u00a0not to forget women\u2019s role and position throughout the entire political consensus and opinions.
\n\u2022 Afghan Women\u2019s Network and its members has been performing tirelessly in order to mobilize\u00a0and encourage women to vote, which was very clearly observed during both rounds of the\u00a0election, thus we urge both candidates not to disregard women\u2019s contribution and waste their\u00a0motive.
\n\u2022 We appreciate the role of media in both rounds of elections; meanwhile, there has been a\u00a0serious observation about the negative role of certain media channels and outlets that has\u00a0resulted in discrimination and social disorders.
\n\u2022 We urge for the commitment of all the aspects of public rule and democracy, any deal, which\u00a0will be against Afghan constitution and other national laws shall not be acceptable.
\n\u2022 We very seriously call upon the government, both candidates and all the politicians to respect\u00a0and keep women\u2019s constitutional rights and keep committed to the implementation.
\n\u2022 We have a witnessed a complete disappearance of women from the political discussions that\u00a0were facilitated by the international community particularly the United States and UNAMA.<\/p>\n

These discussions were extremely important on how the new Afghan government will set up it\u00a0has been once again men led.<\/p>\n

\u2022 While Afghan women are half of the country\u2019s population where they have equal rights and\u00a0contribution to the development of the society. Despite of huge uncertainty and lack of trust\u00a0we call on both candidates and the national and international mediators for not forgetting\u00a0women\u2019s role in all the political, social, cultural and economic spheres.
\n\u2022 We call on all relevant authorities to strongly follow laws, commit to rule of law and democratic process. We strongly will stand against any fraud, discrimination and disrespect to law implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afghan Women\u2019s Network, its 117 member organizations and more than 3000 members has had visible contribution and accomplishments in awareness, mobilization and political participation of women during the last three election terms, Loya Jirga\u2019s, Consultation Jirga\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,63,19,90,89,65,88,17],"tags":[342,503],"class_list":["post-4639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-calls-and-statements","category-citizens-and-civil-society","category-editor-selection","category-events","category-others","category-slider","category-women","tag-afghanistan-elections-2014","tag-awn","country-afghanistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}