{"id":3529,"date":"2017-03-16T13:41:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T09:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2017-03-20T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T05:54:48","slug":"61st-session-of-the-un-commission-on-the-status-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=3529","title":{"rendered":"61st Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_3150\"<\/a>61st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women<\/a> is a great opportunity for EQUALITY for Peace and Development (EPD) to share its view on Women, Peace and Security and women empowerment in Afghanistan. This event, taking place at the UN Headquarters in New York City on March 13-24, 2017, intends to discuss women\u2019s economic empowerment, achievements in implementation of Millennium Development Goals and indigenous women empowerment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Edrees Omarzad, executive director of EPD, in his remark during this session, highlighted the organization\u2019s achievements in its efforts to ensure and monitor women\u2019s peace and security. He mentioned that EPD has established its Provincial Women\u2019s Networks (PWNs) in 15 provinces of Afghanistan supporting the goals of UNSCR 1325 at grassroots level.<\/span><\/p>\n

The PWN members conducted trainings for more than 2,000 men and boys in different districts on \u201cIn Her Shoes\u201d Training Manual as an endeavor to involve men in ensuring women\u2019s rights. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first round of data collection for barometer they have conducted around 3,000 interviews with women in center of the provinces and districts and all the data is available. The aim is loading women\u2019s voice and sharing their experience to help women be heard at grass-root level and empower them to monitor their own peace and security.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few success stories among hundreds of efforts and initiatives from PWNs are as follow:<\/span><\/p>\n

Elimination of improper custom:\u00a0In the current year in the southern province of Paktia,<\/strong> the PWN has been very successful in solving cases of conflict inflicted on women by the improper customs in Mirzaka district.\u00a0 With the support of community elders PWN decreased the huge amounts of bride price paid by grooms in many cases. PWN again started the same advocacy activities in Seyed Karam district. PWN convinced the elders to support the network in advocacy against the dowry. The agreement with the signatures and fingerprints is available. Furthermore, people welcomed this idea and now rate of dowry is lower in comparison t<\/span>o past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Creation of employment opportunities:<\/strong>\u00a0Numerous women have been employed in public and private sectors because of the advocacies incurred by PWNs members in different provinces. These include recruitment of women in education, healthcare, agriculture, handicraft and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Women\u2019s financial independence:<\/strong>\u00a0One of the members of the PWN in Helmand province, who has experience in a special kind of handicraft development, was recruited as a teacher at a training center to share her skills and earn a salary as a trainer. As well, let me mention the only two activities carried out carried out under this project by PWNs as samples.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"11\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span>EPD believes that the provincial women networks\u2019 presence for ensuring the women\u2019s peace and security, economic empowerment of women and realization of the UNSCR 1325 at the grass root level is quite crucial and important.\u00a0 In fact, when women at the policy and grass root level feel secure and are economically empowered, economy grows and poverty is reduced.\u00a0 Poverty is one of the root causes of violent conflicts. As well, economic security is also one of the critical components of human security. Women\u2019s economic empowerment also equates to women\u2019s personal security and enhances their decision-making capacity.\u00a0 Therefore, the Afghan women at the grass root level strongly recommend that woman\u2019s peace and security and economic empowerment to be guaranteed. They ask the government as well as the UN and other multilateral institutions and the private sector to create a secure atmosphere where it ensures good employment and livelihood opportunities for women.<\/span><\/p>\n

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61st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women is a great opportunity for EQUALITY for Peace and Development (EPD) to share its view on Women, Peace and Security and women empowerment in Afghanistan. This event, taking place at the UN Headquarters in New York City on March 13-24, 2017, intends to discuss women\u2019s economic empowerment, achievements in implementation of Millennium Development Goals and indigenous Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}