Seizing the vote : women’s political participation in Afghanistan / Open Society Afghanistan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Kabul, Afghanistan : The women and Children’s Legal Research Foundation, 2012.Description: 61 pages : color charts ; 21 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • Pamphlet HQ1236.5. A3.
Contents:
Contents: Executive summary—1. Introduction—2. Context—3. Methodology—4. Findings—5. Conclusion and recommendations—References—List of tables.
Summary: Summary: “While Afghan women had gradually gained modest politi8cal rights during the 20th century, this trend was abruptly halted in the 1990s when the Mujahideen, and then later the Taliban, came to power. That decade saw a violent interruption in women’s political participation. Women’s right to vote, first granted in 1965, was restored when women and men both went to the polls in 2004 in the country’s first presidential elections of the post-Taliban governments. Since then, three more elections were…”—(page 7).
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Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Available 3ACKU000389212
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Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Pamphlet HQ1236.5.A3.S45 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available 3ACKU000350941, 3ACK
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Cover title.
“June 2012”.
“Open Society Afghanistan = جامعه باز افغانستان”—cover page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Executive summary—1. Introduction—2. Context—3. Methodology—4. Findings—5. Conclusion and recommendations—References—List of tables.

Summary: “While Afghan women had gradually gained modest politi8cal rights during the 20th century, this trend was abruptly halted in the 1990s when the Mujahideen, and then later the Taliban, came to power. That decade saw a violent interruption in women’s political participation. Women’s right to vote, first granted in 1965, was restored when women and men both went to the polls in 2004 in the country’s first presidential elections of the post-Taliban governments. Since then, three more elections were…”—(page 7).

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