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The Hon. Minister of Women’s Affairs
The Hon.
Minister of Women’s Affairs, Hussn Banu Ghazanfar, is leading theDelegation of
the Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the Beijing +15 in UN
Headquarters, New York. Here, the Commission of the Status ofWomen would
be undertaking a fifteen-year review of the implementation of theBeijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty thirdspecial
session of the General Assembly.
The Afghanistan Country Report states that the
Beijing Declaration andPlatform for Action (BPFA), even fifteen years after its
adoption, continues toserve as a powerful tool for advocacy and development
planning for the women ofAfghanistan.
The Minister, in her address yesterday (2 March
2010) said the achievementsof Afghanistan are few and modest. ‘But, if you will
consider the extremelydaunting layers of obstacles in the context within which
these achievements wererealized, you will greatly appreciate that we have gone
this far,’ sheadded.
Afghanistan took up the implementation of the BPFA
on March 23, 2005,immediately after it sent a delegation to the Beijing + 10
meeting of theCommission of the Status of Women. Minister, in herspeech, outlined the
achievements and reiterated thatthey were “foundational to an enduring approach
to women’s empowerment andgender equality.”
On behalf of the Afghan Government, she appealed to
the gathering for supportin five areas: Education for strategic leadership in
various fields; Deploymentof female nurses and midwives to Afghanistan;
Establish institute on women inIslam; Creation of jobs for women; and Support
to the South-South technicalexchange of women professionals, deemed extremely
important to the improvementof Afghan women’s status.
She pledged “to ensure the sustained implementation
of the commitments” madein the past years. “We will (i) pursue the
implementation of the NationalAction Plan for the Women of Afghanistan (NAPWA),
(ii) work for aideffectiveness around gender equality, (iii) forge alliances
with genderinitiatives of other Islamic countries in the region, (iv)
strengthenaccountability on gender, and (v) promote greater involvement of men,
boys, andthe ‘influentials’ in the implementation of our gender equality
commitments,”she concluded.
TheAfghanistan
Country Reporton the Implementation of theBeijing
Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and the Outcome of the 23rdSpecial
Session of the General Assembly (2000) presents the changes that hadtaken place
in Afghanistan in the Last five years since theBeijing+10.
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