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Afghan Ministry Of Women Affairs
Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs (MOWA) (, ) was a ministry in the Afghan government which was established in late 2001 by the Afghan Interim Administration. MOWA was the lead agency for promoting women's rights and advancement in Afghanistan. MOWA had a major shift in its strategy from welfare oriented, direct implementing approach to a policy influencing body by 2002. The last minister of Women's, appointed in 2015, was Delbar Nazari. With the announcement by the newly-established Taliban government of the Cabinet of Afghanistan on 7 September 2021, the Ministry of Women's Affairs no longer exists and was replaced by the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Functions Provide direction, build inter-ministerial collaboration and develop the capacity of government agencies to ensure that policy formulation, planning, implementation, reporting and monitoring equitably respond to the differential needs and situations of women and men. This is be ...
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Ministry For The Propagation Of Virtue And The Prevention Of Vice (Afghanistan)
The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice ( ps, د فضیلت تبلیغاتو او د معاونیت مخنیوي وزارت; ) is the state agency in charge of implementing Sharia, Islamic law in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as defined by the Taliban. It was first instituted in 1992 by the Burhanuddin Rabbani, Rabbani government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan and adopted in 1996 by the Taliban government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001), Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan of 1996–2001. The ministry was restored in the reinstated Islamic Emirate in September 2021 after the Fall of Kabul (2021), August fall of Kabul. History First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Established in 1996, the vice and virtue ministry received heavy subsidies and training from Saudi Arabia. When the Taliban took over Kabul, the committee announced a ban on sorcery and American-style haircuts. It was closed when the Talibans were ousted, but Fazal ...
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Mahboba Hoqooqmal
Doctor Mahboba Hoqooqmal is an Afghan politician. She was a Law Professor at Kabul University. She was appointed to the Emergency Loya Jirga of 2002, serving as its Vice-President. She also served on the Constitutional Loya Jirga, which sat from 2002 through 2004. She served on the sixth of its ten committees, chaired by Maulowi Gul Muhammad. Her committee drafted 22 articles. During the 2002-2004 period she also served as Minister of State and Presidential Advisor for Women's Affairs for the Afghan Transitional Administration Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity **Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pash .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoqomal, Mahboba Living people Afghan politicians Year of birth missing (living people) ...
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Women's Ministries
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardless of age. Typically, women inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, SRY-gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. A fully developed woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. Women have significantly less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Throug ...
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Gender Equality Ministries
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultures use a gender binary, in which gender is divided into two categories, and people are considered part of one or the other (boys/men and girls/women);Kevin L. Nadal, ''The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender'' (2017, ), page 401: "Most cultures currently construct their societies based on the understanding of gender binary—the two gender categorizations (male and female). Such societies divide their population based on biological sex assigned to individuals at birth to begin the process of gender socialization." those who are outside these groups may fall under the umbrella term ''non-binary''. Some societies have specific genders besides "man" and "woman", such as the hijras of South Asia; these are often referred to as ''third gender ...
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Government Ministries Of Afghanistan
There are 26 government ministries in Afghanistan. * Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock * Minister of Commerce and Industry *Ministry of Communications and Information Technology * Ministry of Counter Narcotics *Ministry of Defense * National Disaster Management Authority * Ministry of Economy *Ministry of Education *Ministry of Energy and Water *Ministry of Finance *Ministry of Foreign Affairs *Ministry of Frontiers, Nations and Tribal Affairs *Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs *Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs, and Disabled *Ministry of Higher Education * Ministry of Information and Culture * Ministry of Interior Affairs *Ministry of Justice *Ministry of Mines * Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice * Ministry of Public Health *Ministry of Public Works * Ministry of Refugees *Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development prs, وزارت بازسازی و انکشاف دهات) , native_name_a = , native_ ...
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Khaama Press
The Khaama Press News Agency (Pashto: خامه پرس خبری آژانس; Persian: خبرگزاری خامه پرس) is the largest online news service for Afghanistan, established in October 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan, by Khushnood Nabizada, an Afghan journalist and entrepreneur. "Khaama" is an ancient Persian word that means "The Pen". Khaama Press operates in three languages: English, Pashto, and Persian. The Khaama Press News Agency is a private firm that works in the area of reporting news from Afghanistan. Khaama Press is one of the most popular websites in Afghanistan based on Alexa ranking and Google News. According to a recent demographic report by Google Analytics, 50 percent of its audience come from Afghanistan and the other 50 percent from other parts of the world, including the United States of America, Canada, Europe, Asia, Middle East, South Asia and Australia. History In 2009, the Khaama Press news portal was designed by founder Khushnood Nabizada to publish ...
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Qadria Yazdanparast
Qadriya Yazdanparast (in Persian: قدریه یزدان‌پرست) is an Afghan politician and a commissioner at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. Before start working in the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission she resigned from her leadership position of the Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Society of Afghanistan) in order to fulfill the requirement of a commissioner to be non political. It is to be said that the Jamiat-e Islami is the biggest political party in the history of Afghanistan. She started her career during the Soviet–Afghan War. She studied jurisprudence and political science at Kabul University. Yazdanparast speaks Pashto, Dari, Dutch and English. Political and social career After the fall of the Communist regime, president Burhanuddin Rabbani appointed her to director of the Afghan Women High Association that preceded the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs. During the war against the Taliban, she fled to the northern part of ...
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Wolesi Jirga
The House of Representatives of the People, or Da Afghanistan Wolesi Jirga ( ps, دَ افغانستان ولسي جرګه), was the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, alongside the upper House of Elders. The House of Representatives of the People was the chamber that bore the greater burden of lawmaking in the country, as with the House of Commons in the Westminster model. It consisted of 250 delegates directly elected by single non-transferable vote. Members were elected by district and served for five years. The constitution guaranteed at least 68 delegates to be female. Kuchi nomads elect 10 representatives through a Single National Constituency. The House of Representatives of the People had the primary responsibility for making and ratifying laws and approving the actions of the president. The first elections in decades were held in September 2005, four years after the fall of the Taliban regime, still under internationa ...
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House Of The People (Afghanistan)
The House of Representatives of the People, or Da Afghanistan Wolesi Jirga ( ps, دَ افغانستان ولسي جرګه), was the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, alongside the upper House of Elders. The House of Representatives of the People was the chamber that bore the greater burden of lawmaking in the country, as with the House of Commons in the Westminster model. It consisted of 250 delegates directly elected by single non-transferable vote. Members were elected by district and served for five years. The constitution guaranteed at least 68 delegates to be female. Kuchi nomads elect 10 representatives through a Single National Constituency. The House of Representatives of the People had the primary responsibility for making and ratifying laws and approving the actions of the president. The first elections in decades were held in September 2005, four years after the fall of the Taliban regime, still under internation ...
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Soraya Rahim Sobhrang
Soraya Rahim Sobhrang ( fa, ثریا رحیم صبحرنگ) is an Afghan politician, physician, and human rights activist serving as the commissioner of women's rights of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. Sobhrang was born in Herat and completed medical school at Kabul University. She later emigrated to Germany. Sobhrang returned to Afghanistan in 1981 to work as the technical and political deputy minister at the Ministry of Women's Affairs. In March 2006, she was named by president Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ... as the women's affairs minister but her candidacy was not approved by the House of the People. She received the 2010 Front Line Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. References Living people Year of birth missi ...
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Massouda Jalal
xDr. Massouda Jalal (داکتر مسعوده جلال) is the first woman in the history of Afghanistan who ran for the Office of the President of Afghanistan in 2002, and again in 2004. She holds the distinction of being the first woman to compete for presidency in Afghanistan, a highly conservative society where women's engagement in public life was considered improper, unacceptable, and previously banned. Dr. Jalal emerged as a leading voice of Afghan women in 2001 after her election as the Representative to the 2002 Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly). While serving her term, she became one of the frontrunners for the position of Interim President, opposite to ex-president Hamid Karzai. She was also the only woman candidate in the 2004 Afghan presidential election. In 2004 election, Jalal was placed 6th among 17 male candidates. She has a background as a professor at the Kabul Medical University, and she has also worked in leadership positions in the UN World Food Programme and UNHC ...
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