Working for Women's Empowerment in Afghanistan:
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Publications - UN
- The situation in Afghanistan [PDF]
5 November, 2007. General Assembly Resolution A/62/L.7. - Afghanistan Human Development Report 2007 [PDF]
2007, UNDP - Outreach to Afghan Women Guide [PDF]
2006, Counterpart Afghanistan. 37 pages. - Institutional Capacity Building of the Ministry of Women's Affairs
December 2006, UNDP - 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women: Dr. Jalal for President
February - March, 2005, UN - National Reconstruction and Poverty Reduction - the Role of Women in Afghanistan's Future [PDF]
March 2005, World Bank. 147 pages. - The situation of women and girls in Afghanistan
2002, 2003, 2004, Commission on the Status of Women - Afghanistan National Human Development Report 2004 - Security with a Human Face [PDF]
2004, UNDP - Discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan
Resolution adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2001, UN WomenWatch - Situation of human rights in Afghanistan
2001, Commission on Human Rights - Situation of women and girls in the territories controlled by Afghan armed groups
2001, Sub-Commision on Human Rights - The Bonn Agreement [PDF]
2001, UNDP - The Bonn Agreement: Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-Establishment of Permanent Government Institutions
December 2001, UN WomenWatch - Fact Sheet: Reproductive Health Indicators for Afghanistan
Source: UNFPA - Women's Organizing and Leadership in Rebuilding Afghanistan [PDF]
Paper by Homa Sabri, National Programme Advisor, UNIFEM Afghanistan, presented at the 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. (currently unavailable)
Publications - NGO
- Maternal Mortality in Herat Province, Afghanistan
Source: Physicians for Human Rights, September 2002 - "We Want to Live as Humans": Repression of Women and Girls in Western Afghanistan
Source: Human Rights Watch, December 2002 - Afghanistan: Women still under attack - a systematic failure to protect
Source: Amnesty International, May 2005 - Human Rights Watch: Human Rights News: Taking Cover - Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan (2002 Briefing Paper)
- The Taliban & Afghan Women: Background
Source: Feminist Majority Foundation
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