{"id":6583,"date":"2016-02-16T15:33:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T13:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2016-02-16T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T13:33:25","slug":"women-and-the-elections-facilitating-and-hindering-factors-in-the-upcoming-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2016\/02\/women-and-the-elections-facilitating-and-hindering-factors-in-the-upcoming-parliamentary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and the Elections: Facilitating and Hindering Factors in the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Although women\u2019s participation in parliamentary elections in the rhetorical discourses of changes in Afghanistan\u2019s post-2001 context is framed as \u2018new\u2019, a quick overview of the historical-political context informs us of women\u2019s presence in the political sphere much earlier than 2001.1 Women\u2019s suffrage or right to vote or be elected was granted in Afghanistan\u2019s constitution in 19642; despite the fact that women continuously faced limitations to practicing their right to vote and be elected, in 1965 four women won seats in Kabul, Herat and Kandahar provinces.3 Following the political turmoil of the mid-1970s, up until the early 1990s women intermittently continued to hold parliamentary seats and under the PDPA regime, membership of the PDPA was a pre-condition for running for parliament both for men and women.4 Then and in today\u2019s context, the key questions that need to be raised are: what motivates women who vote or run for parliament, and what are the facilitating and hindering factors that determine women\u2019s political participation? The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit\u2019s (AREU) 2012 comprehensive synthesis paper, \u201cEqual Rights, Unequal Opportunities: Women\u2019s Participation in Afghanistan\u2019s Parliamentary and Provincial Council Elections,\u201d5 highlighted different dynamics of women\u2019s participation both as voters and as candidates in Afghanistan\u2019s elections in 2005, 2009 and 2010 for parliamentary and provincial council elections. Keeping in mind this paper and the 2014 provincial council elections processes, this policy note will draw on the evidence from the aforementioned study as well as the author\u2019s own observations in order to formulate key policy recommendations ahead of the upcoming parliamentary and district council elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although women\u2019s participation in parliamentary elections in the rhetorical discourses of changes in Afghanistan\u2019s post-2001 context is framed as \u2018new\u2019, a quick overview of the historical-political context informs us of women\u2019s presence in the political sphere much earlier than 2001.<\/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":[6,5,85,43,11,122,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-geography","category-human-rights","category-human-rights-online-library","category-issues","category-politics","category-womens-rights","country-afghanistan","Documents-statements-multimedia","Documents-conventions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583","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=6583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6586,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}