From rhetoric to reality
Subtitle: Afghan women on the agenda for peace
By: by Masuda Sultan ; with contributions from Corey Levine and Elizabeth Powley.
Contributors: Levine, Corey.; Powley, Elizabeth.; Hunt Alternatives Fund. Women Waging Peace Program.; Women Waging Peace Policy Commission.
Series: Women waging peace program
Publisher: Women Waging Peace Policy Commission, Hunt Alternatives Fund
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9781932679090
Subjects: Women and peace -- Afghanistan.; Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.; Women's rights -- Afghanistan.; Women -- Government policy -- Afghanistan.; Women in development -- Afghanistan.
Other titles: Afghan women on the agenda for peace
Notes: Includes Executive summary in back cover

"February 2005."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-62).

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Table of contents: value: Background. Women become the story ; Bonn sets a precedent ; President Karzai decrees rights for women ; The Emergency Loya Jirga empowers women; value: Mechanisms for promoting women's participation. Ministry of Women's Affairs (MOWA) ; Women's resource centers ; The constitution ; Quotas ; Aid and assistance programs ; Outreach and education for political empowerment; value: Women's contributions. Bulwark against political extremism ; Advancing the rights of minorities ; Supporting development; value: Afghanistan, an appropriate testing ground for women's rights? Continuing insecurity ; An enduring refugee crisis ; The rural/urban disconnect ; Enforcing the new legal framework ; Waning committment? Preparing for elections.