Monday, October 8, 2012
Kabul (BNA) President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai met yesterday with the chairwoman and member of the Wolesi Jerga commission for women affairs and civil society at the presidential palace, his office said.
Head of the women affairs commission for the house of people, Fauzai Kofi spoke about the increase of anti-women violations across the country and asked the government for taking effective step in this respect.
The consultative session for the house of people women affairs and civil society to which a number of representatives from government organs, were the members asked for recreation of an attorney committee for addressing the women related violations, as well as she asked for further membership of the women in the entire government offices, particularly in the justice and judiciary organs.
She also said a female judge should be assigned as the member for Supreme Court high council and the deputy attorney general should also be an attorney woman, the statement detailed.
Head of civil society, Aziz Rafiei said up to 120 cases on anti-violation had so far been registered across the country, the statement quoted.
He also spoke about violation and sexual misuse against the female prisoners in northern Takhar and Balkh and Ghzni provinces and expressed concern over the increasingly violation against women at the worksites, universities and other educations centers of the country asking for full attention of the government in this respect.
Meanwhile, the president said insecurity was not the only reason behind non-implementation of the law, but meddling of the three forces of the state was also an obstacle before the process.
The president also vowed to recreate the committee for women attorney to address the anti-women violation cases, with one of his deputies in the chairmanship.
He also confirmed the suggestion of the member of the commission for the civil society and women affairs committee for the house of people to assign a woman as the deputy attorney general, with full pledge to take the issue into consultation with the high council for “Supreme Court on assigning woman as the member.
