***Kocak amat si AS itu. Kirim saja cewe2 AS ber mini, bikini, pasti Afghan women can keep their gains....
***Sudah gagal dengan perang salib nya, mundur teratur adalah opsi agung. Kalo sampai seperti tentara Rusia lari ter-birit2.... ***Milisia afghan siap membantu Iran bila diserang AS.... --- In [email protected], "Sunny" <ambon@...> wrote: > > http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4373&Itemid=212 > > > Can Afghan Women Keep their Gains? > Written by David Cortright > Wednesday, 28 March 2012 > > > > > > How will she dress when she grows up? > As the US-led coalition prepares to hand over, women are at peril > > The Obama administration is under mounting pressure to accelerate the > withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. The US-led coalition plans to hand > over security responsibility to Afghan forces by 2014. The military > withdrawal shouldnât mean that the international community walks away from > Afghanistan entirely, however, or ceases support to local civil society > â"especially when it comes to preserving the hard-won rights of Afghan > women. How is this possible? > > To search for answers, my colleague at Notre Dame Universityâs Kroc > Institute for International Peace Studies Sarah Smiles Persinger and I > authored the report Afghan Women Speak, based on dozens of interviews in > Afghanistan with female parliamentarians, activists, researchers, health > workers and NGO leaders. This past October I visited Kabul to assess the > latest developments. > > All the women we interviewed said they want the war to end. They cannot > secure their rights in a militarized environment. The longer the war > continues the more they are threatened by the Taliban and male reactionaries > in the Kabul government. Woman favor peace negotiations, but they do not want > an agreement that revokes laws, like the 2009 Elimination of Violence Against > Women Act, or that fails to sustain vital services for women. > > What do women recommend? The first and most obvious need is continued support > for the economic and social development programs that have already improved > the lives of Afghan women and children. âInvest in Afghan youthâ, said a > woman leader, ânot in corrupt leaders.â With development funding from > USAID, the World Bank and European Union member states, millions of women > have acquired an education and gained access to health care. > > These achievements are among the few bright spots of the international > mission in Afghanistan. They must be sustained as foreign troops withdraw. > Improved education is a priority. In 2002 only 900,000 boys attended primary > school. Today more than seven million girls and boys are enrolled in school. > School attendance rates have increased sevenfold over the past decade. Girls > now comprise 37 per cent of the student population. > > More than 4,000 new schools have been built, many through cooperation between > international programs and local civil society. The number of teachers has > increased from 20,000 (all men) in 2002 to more than 150,000 today (almost 30 > per cent women). > > Progress also has been achieved in lowering Afghanistanâs rates of maternal > and child mortality. Since 2001 the number of health facilities and trained > health workers has increased tenfold. More than 3,000 women have been trained > as midwives, a sevenfold increase. According to the latest Afghan government > figures, based on a survey conducted with support from USAID and the UN, the > rate of children dying before age 5 has dropped from one in five to about one > in ten. The risk of a woman dying in childbirth has dropped from one in > eleven to one in 50. These rates are still shockingly high, but the trends > are moving in the right direction. The improvements of the last decade > translate into hundreds of thousands of lives saved among Afghanistanâs > most vulnerable people. > > Despite these gains, much work remains to be done. In rural communities, > where most Afghans live, health care remains primitive and preventable > disease is prevalent. Primary school attendance has increased, but secondary > school and higher education remain unavailable to most Afghan youth. Social > development programs must continue even as military expenditures begin to > decline. > > A second priority is to preserve womenâs political rights. Women are equal > before the law in Afghanistan today, and 25 percent of the seats in > parliament are reserved for females. The best guarantee against these rights > being rolled back is ensuring that women have a seat at the table in peace > negotiations. Only a handful of women are members of Afghanistanâs High > Peace Council, which is responsible for guiding the reconciliation process > with the Taliban. Western policymakers must pressure the Afghan government to > ensure that women are included more meaningfully in high-level > decision-making forums. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has shown > exemplary leadership in advocating for Afghan womenâs rights. Other US and > Western officials should follow her lead. > > Afghan women want peace, but they need continued support for their social and > political rights. The withdrawal of troops must not come at the expense of a > commitment to development and human rights. > > (David Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at Notre Dameâs Kroc > Institute for International Peace Studies. This article was written for the > Common Ground News Service www.commongroundnews.org.) > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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