{"id":6541,"date":"2016-02-16T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T09:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2016-02-16T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T09:20:15","slug":"afghan-women-men-and-decision-making-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2016\/02\/afghan-women-men-and-decision-making-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Women, Men and Decision-making Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Unquestionably, the situation of Afghan women has been one of the most prominent areas of rhetorical focus of the international development community in the post- Taliban era. After years of conflict and forcible exclusion from the public sphere, women have been gradually emerging as a social, political and economic force. Representatives of government, donors and the international aid community have been quick to note the progress made around women\u2019s rights since late 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most widely recognised achievements have been in the legal and policy arenas. The Afghan government has removed severe discriminatory laws against women; ratified a constitution that promotes non-discrimination; and facilitated women\u2019s unprecedented participation in national elections through civic education, voting and candidacy. Dr Masooda Jalal, Minister of Women\u2019s Affairs, recently attended the ten-year anniversary review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) and is currently drafting a National Action Plan for Afghan women that addresses the twelve critical areas of concern of the BPfA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unquestionably, the situation of Afghan women has been one of the most prominent areas of rhetorical focus of the international development community in the post- Taliban era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,85,43,11,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-geography","category-human-rights","category-human-rights-online-library","category-issues","category-womens-rights","country-afghanistan","Documents-conventions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6544,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}