{"id":5399,"date":"2015-01-17T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2015-01-20T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T08:50:02","slug":"afghanistan-womens-50-campaign-establishment-and-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2015\/01\/afghanistan-womens-50-campaign-establishment-and-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Women\u2019s 50% Campaign; establishment and activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Afghanistan Women\u2019s 50% Campaign<\/a>; establishment and activities<\/strong><\/p>\n

The year 2009 was an important year in the post-Taleban era. On the path of democracy and a sustainable peace to adopt democratic methods and rely on rights and demands of the citizens, the country went through its second presidential election. The election campaigns provided women\u2019s rights and civil society activities an opportunity to get together and state their minimum demands to government officials.<\/p>\n

The role of the civil society activists was of great significance in creating mechanisms to oversee directly or indirectly the elections and the procedure for deciding qualification of the candidates, and consciousness-raising. Thus, endeavours were made to establish a unified women\u2019s group to leave a positive impact on the election.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Afghanistan Women\u2019s 50% Campaign<\/a>[1] was established through a joint initiative of Armanshahr Foundation, Women\u2019s Political Participation Committee, National Committee of Women and a number of human rights and civil rights activists. The goal of the group was to raise demands of the women with presidential candidates and other elected officials as well as government officials, to influence convergence among women\u2019s rights activists and to strengthen the women\u2019s social movement. If those demands had been followed up by the president and other officials, they could have helped gradually to reform the conditions of women in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Ever since its establishment (Spring 2009) to its conclusion (January 2013), Afghanistan Women\u2019s 50% Campaign adopted positions at all important junctures, e.g. Bonn II Conference<\/a>, London Conference<\/a>, Peace Jirga<\/a>, Kabul Conference<\/a>, parliamentary elections<\/a> and other national and international occasions.<\/p>\n

Here are the links to some of the statements of the campaign:<\/p>\n

Women of this land are still far away from the implementation of the Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n

Joint Statement of Afghanistan Women\u2019s 50% Campaign and Women\u2019s Political Participation Committee on Human Rights Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Today we are worried that dark minds, illiteracy and lack of consciousness may once again lead the society to the precipice of destruction<\/a><\/p>\n

Joint Statement of Afghanistan Women\u2019s 50% Campaign and Women\u2019s Political Participation on torture and atrocious killing of a woman at Maidan Wardak province<\/a><\/p>\n

Women\u2019s rights are human rights<\/a><\/p>\n

Joint Statement of Afghanistan Women\u2019s 50% Campaign and Women\u2019s Political Participation on 8 March, International Women\u2019s Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Statement of Afghanistan Women\u2019s 50% Campaign on Human Rights Day and National Day of Victims<\/a><\/p>\n

Open Letter to president of Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n

Statement of Afghanistan Women\u2019s 50% Campaign on 8 March<\/a><\/p>\n

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[1] All links are in Persian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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