13/6/2012 – The activists who are from Afghan women network, say the wide-spread corruption in the government provide bases for violence against women in Afghanistan.
The two-day conference of Afghan women network ended on Tuesday (13 June) in Kabul.
The summit held with the aim of allocating the ideas of women leaders regarding the economic development of women and keeping the progress beyond 2014. The Afghan finance minister, Omer Zakhilwal, Jan kobish, special representative of UN for Afghanistan and Okada, the deputy ambassador of Japan in Kabul were the speakers of the summit.
The Afghan finance minister says one out of 22 programs of the ministry for self-sufficiency of Afghanistan in the years 2015 – 2024 is dedicated for women. The program is going to be presented in the Tokyo summit in July 2012.
Nevertheless, UN special representative for Afghanistan, Jon Kobish, while insisting over the continued UN support for the people of Afghanistan, says that the organization’s presence in Afghanistan for the support of afghan people, women and children in particular is a necessity.
On the other side, some of the Afghan women network members and women activists in Afghanistan, says that because of the Afghan government’s audacity to trial high-profile corrupt officials, the violence against women is increasing. They further added,” the situation is no more bearable for the Afghan women.”
The activists emphasized over passing a law based on which the high-profile corrupt officials should be called criminals and must be sentenced. According to the Afghan women activists, the international community has already started an anti-terrorism campaign, but did not help with the elimination of corruption and embezzlement.
Meanwhile,Farkhunda Zahra Naderi, MP and one of the outspoken women activists in Afghanistan, expressed her grave concerns over high level of non-admitted students to state universities. She asked the finance ministry to allocate a fair budget for them in the Tokyo summit next in Japan.
Afghan women network presented the following six key suggestions to Afghan Government and International Community for preparation of a position paper to Afghan Women Network:
good governance, mutual accountability, peace and reintegration, the commitments of the international community beyond the 2014, equal budget for gender, for health, security, economic and politic.