{"id":4021,"date":"2019-03-03T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T10:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2019-03-03T15:33:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T11:03:55","slug":"youth-peace-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=4021","title":{"rendered":"Youth Peace Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/D1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4023\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/D1-1000x666.jpg\" alt=\"D1\" width=\"251\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Youth forms more than 70% of the country\u2019s population. Since the last 17 years, Afghan youth has made significant developments in education, health, technology, security, and other fields. From their involvement in the technological developments such Afghan robotic girls to safeguarding the country on the borders, to joining politics such as wide participation of youth in the last parliamentary elections, to the inclusion of youth in the <\/span><\/span>peace building<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> such as <\/span>Hilmand<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> Peace Marchers; youth has always played <\/span>vital<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> role in social, cultural, political and religious aspects. However, in the current peace process which is deciding the future of the country, youth are highly marginalized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/D12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4025\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/D12-1000x666.jpg\" alt=\"D12\" width=\"280\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Today on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> March 2019, EPD gathered youth under one umbrella to raise their voice and emphasize that no peace can be sustainable and no process is successful without involving youth into it. Over 250 youth and CSO and peace activists attended the demonstration in Shahr-e-Naw Park, emphasizing on <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">the role of youth in <\/span>peace<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">While women and young generations\u2019 contribution to development, human right and economic growth in Afghanistan cannot be neglected, their inclusion in peace process raises hopes for meaningful conflict resolution and sustainable peace too. Women and youth exclusion can lead to <\/span>violation<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> of democratic rights and losing achievements in gender equality and human rights in Afghan communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The demonstration was concluded by extending a youth statement which urged the involved stakeholders in <\/span>peace<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> process to consider youth inclusion. EPD thank all CSO partners (including but not limited to AWN, AWSDC, TLO, PTRO, <\/span>Killid<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> Radio, SPAWG) and youth groups for their support and active participation in this demonstration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Please click on the following links to access the youth <\/span>statment<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> in English, Drai and Pashtu languages:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Youth-statement.docx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Youth-statement.docx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/%D8%AD%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%AA-%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%AD-%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86.docx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/%D8%AD%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%AA-%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%AD-%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86.docx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Youth-statement-Pashto.docx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Youth-statement-Pashto.docx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth forms more than 70% of the country\u2019s population. Since the last 17 years, Afghan youth has made significant developments in education, health, technology, security, and other fields. From their involvement in the technological developments such Afghan robotic girls to safeguarding the country on the borders, to joining politics such as wide participation of youth in the last parliamentary elections, to the inclusion of youth, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/youth-peace-movement\"> Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4021","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\/4021","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=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}