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	Afghan Constitution Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Afghan Constitution Commission (or Afghan Constitutional Commission) was established October 5, 2002 as required by the Bonn Agreement, which stipulated that a new Afghan constitution be adopted by a loya jirga.
		The initial goal was for the Commission to present the draft constitution by September 1, 2003, but in August commission members asked for a two-month delay to allow more time to gather reactions.
		Mahbuba Hoquqmal, the Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs, said the constitution does not grant protection to women's property rights, and does not prevent women being forced to marry without their consent, and does not offer better guarantees of equal treatment by Afghanistan's courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghan_Constitution_Commission (657 words)

	Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In late 2001, major leaders from the Afghan opposition groups and diaspora met in Bonn, and agreed on a plan for the formulation of a new government structure that resulted in the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA) in December 2001.
		The constitution ratified by the 2003 Loya jirga restructured the government as an Islamic republic consisting of three branches of power (executive, legislative, and judiciary) overseen by checks and balances.
		Like other highlanders, Afghans are regarded with mingled apprehension and condescension, for their high regard for personal honor, for their clan loyalty and for their readiness to carry and use arms to settle disputes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan (5343 words)

	Afghanistan - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Under the Bonn Agreement the Afghan Constitution Commission was established to consult with the public and formulate a draft constitution.
		The meeting of a constitutional loya jirga was held in December 2003, when a new constitution was adopted creating a presidential form of government with a bicameral legislature.
		International efforts to rebuild Afghanistan lead to the formulation of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA), as a result of the December 2001 Bonn Agreement, and later addressed at the Tokyo Donors Conference for Afghan Reconstruction in January 2002, where $4.5 billion was collected for a trust fund to be administered by the World Bank Group.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/a/f/g/Afghanistan.html (2663 words)

	Afghan Constitution Commission - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Afghan Constitution Commission (or Afghan Constitutional Commission) was established October 5, 2002 as required by the Bonn Agreement, which stipulated that a new Afghan constitution be adopted by a Constitutional loya jirga.
		After its work was completed (although no draft was released) the initial Commission was replaced on May 7, 2003 35-member Reviewing Commission, referred to as the "Constitution Commission." The 35 members were all appointed by president Hamid Karzai.
		The Afghan Constitution Commission presented its proposed constitution on November 3, 2003.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Proposed_Afghan_Constitution (1403 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Afghan Constitution Commission
		Consultations with the Afghan public started June 10, refugees in the United States were also said to be consulted.
		The aim of Questionnaire is to give a chance to Afghans abroad to express their views and participate in the Constitution Making Process.
		Given that the elections must be held under the new constitution, the constitution must be in place before the elections.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Afghan-Constitution-Commission (818 words)

	Afghan Constitution Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Afghan Constitution Commission (or Afghan Constitutional Commission) was established October 5, 2002 as required by the Bonn Agreement, which stipulated that a new Afghan constitution be adopted bya loya jirga.
		The initial goal was for the Commission to present the draft constitution by September 1, 2003, but in August commission members asked for atwo-month delay to allow more time to gather reactions.
		Bacha Khan Zadran, a Pashtun warlord in Paktia province, criticized theproposed Constitution for abolishing the hereditary monarchy.
	www.therfcc.org /afghan-constitution-commission-98518.html (615 words)

	Constitution of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Constitution of Afghanistan became the official law of Afghanistan when the 2003 Loya jirga approved it by the consensus on January 4 2004.
		The president must be Muslim an Afghan citizen born of Afghan and should not be guilty of war The president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
		The constitution does not designate a national However it names Pashtu as the language of the Afghan Anthem and Dari as the other main language.
	www.freeglossary.com /Constitution_of_Afghanistan (977 words)

	Afghanistan
		It is notable that the Afghan of this legend is separated from the Afghana of Solomon's times by at least 11 centuries.
		To the Persians, this would further be altered to Aoghan, Avghan, and Afghan as a reference to the highlanders or "mountaineers" of the eastern Iranian plateau.
		On December 21, Yunus Qanuni, Afghan opposition leader and Karzai's main opponent was chosen to lead the 249-seat lower house of parliament with 122 votes against 117 for his closest challenger.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/af/afghanistan.html (6585 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bonn Agreement (Afghanistan)
		Under the Bonn Agreement the Afghan Constitution Commission was established to draft a new constitution in consultation with the public.
		The Bonn Agreement called for a loya jirga to be convened within 18 months of the establishment of the Transitional Authority and for the use of the 1964 constitution as the basis for a new constitution.
		International efforts to rebuild Afghanistan lead to the formulation of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA), as a result of the December 2001 Bonn Agreement, and later addressed at the Tokyo Donors Conference for Afghan Reconstruction in January 2002, where $4.5 billion was collected for a trust fund to be administered by the World Bank.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bonn-Agreement-(Afghanistan) (1057 words)

	Afghan constitution drafted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The constitution, which aims to unite the diverse Afghan people under democratic principles with an Islamic core - must still be debated at a constitutional grand council, or loya jirga, next month.
		After criticism that the constitution was being written in secrecy, the commission sent 460 000 questionnaires to the public and held meetings in villages across the country seeking input.
		The head of the constitutional commission, Namatulluh Sharani, said on Monday the commission would be seeking further public input before the loya jirga next month.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1439703,00.html (438 words)

	Afghan constitution commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Afghan constitution ready for public debate
		A UN-sponsored consultation, in which 400,000 questionnaires were distributed to gather views from Afghans inside the country and in Pakistan and Iran, was dismissed by some who said the questionnaires were too technical and their views were ignored.
		Abdul Ghafoor Lewal, spokesman for the commission, said that a summary of the public's views will be published alongside the draft constitution, and will demonstrate the extent to which they were incorporated.
		Afghan and Western officials expect the text to be pulled in many directions at the loya jirga, when 500 delegates will gather in a huge tent in Kabul to debate every line.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/10/02/afghan_constitution_ready_for_public_debate (1035 words)

	Afghan Constitution Commission - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		(or Afghan Constitutional Commission) was established October_5, 2002 as required by the Bonn_Agreement, which stipulated that a new Afghan constitution be adopted by a loya_jirga.
		The loya_jirga was required to convene within eighteen months of the establishment of Afghan Transitional Administration, which was established in June 2002.
		After its work was completed (although no draft was released) the initial Commission was replaced on May_7, 2003 by a 35-member Reviewing Commission, referred to as the Constitution Commission.
	www.indexsuche.com /Afghan_Constitution_Commission.html (594 words)

	Afghanistan
		A separate Afghan nation came into existence in 1746 as the Durrani Empire, but control was ceded to the United Kingdom until King Amanullah acceded to throne in 1919.
		The meeting of a constitutional loya jirga (grand council) was held in December 2003 when a new constution was adopted creating a presendential form of govornment.
		On March 27, 2003, Afghan deputy defense minister and powerful warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum created an office for the North Zone of Afghanistan and appointed officials to it, defying interim president Hamid Karzai's orders that there be no zones in Afghanistan.
	www.fact-index.com /a/af/afghanistan_1.html (1313 words)

	Afghan Women's Network
		The UN's goal is to register 10 million Afghans, out of the population of 27 million, but in a March 29 press release the AWN said that the process has slowed because women in particular face several obstacles.
		To enhance the role of women in implementing the constitution and participation in the election process, a press conference was held on March 29,2004.
		The Afghan Journalists Union granted AWN Journalists the ID cards for their high quality work they had done during the practical session.The ceremony held on October 13 at Iran Cultural Center, Peshawar.Ms.Ramina Johal the Coordinator- Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children distributed the certificates to the students.
	www.afghanwomensnetwork.org /Activities.htm (2581 words)

	Lemar-Aftaab \| www.afghanmagazine.com \| May 2004 \| Vol 3 \| Issues 3 \| Feature Article \| The Implementation of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some scholars believe the constitutional provisions that ensure basic rights and freedoms are expressly contradicted within the text, and that other provisions could be interpreted by the current judiciary to be religiously fundamentalist.
		The first Afghan Constitution was ratified in 1923 by traditional gatherings known as the Loya Jirga.
		It should be a Constitution forever, ensuring the rights of all." The conflicting interests that arose during the CLJ, however, can be read in the document itself and raise concerns that the ICG critique may also ring true for Afghanistan's new Constitution.
	www.afghanmagazine.com /2004_05/articles/hsadat.shtml (3340 words)

	Afghan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Afghan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By 1980 approximately one million Afghans had fled to Pakistan.
		Out in the garden stood a stately snow maiden, crowned with holly, bearing a basket of fruit and flowers in one hand, a great roll of music in the other, a perfect rainbow of an Afghan round her chilly shoulders, and a Christmas carol issuing from her lips on a pink paper streamer.
		Mulcahy shivered when the former spoke of the knife as an intimate acquaintance, or the latter dwelt with loving particularity on the fate of those who, wounded and helpless, had been overlooked by the ambulances, and had fallen into the hands of the Afghan women-folk.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Afghan (402 words)

	Afghan Constitution debuts \| csmonitor.com
		But the proposed Constitution fell short of answering many of the questions Afghan and international observers have about the future direction of the nation.
		The proposed Constitution put to rest rumors that the commission would try to institute an office of prime minister, akin to the French system, in an attempt to balance power between Mr.
		The draft Constitution now faces public debate, and the final version is expected to be hammered out at the loya jirga, set to meet on Dec. 10.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1104/p06s01-wosc.htm (819 words)

	Afghan hound - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Afghan hound
		It is about 70 cm/27.5 in tall and has a long, silky coat that may be fl, grey, or a wide range of beige or tawny colours.
		Afghan Massacre - the Convoy of Death (film)
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Afghan+hound (179 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Afghanistan: Division Between Islamists, Moderates Hampers Effort on New Constitution
		But they appear to be wielding significant power over the process of drafting a new Afghan Constitution through their representatives in the government, in the constitutional committees, and within the Supreme Court.
		And Tarzi stressed that it is not enough for the Afghan people to be presented with a draft constitution as a fait accompli that gets rubberstamp approval from the Constitutional Loya Jirga that is due, under the Bonn accords, to take place by the end of this year.
		He says the entire process of drafting the constitution, as well as approving it as the law of the land, needs to be more open than it has been so far.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/pp020103a.shtml (1370 words)

	Ethnicity prevailed during Afghan Jirga deliberations -DAWN - International; 08 January, 2004
		A number of them have complained that the final constitution was a result of compromise more than justice.
		But not all the delegates were dissatisfied with the outcome of the constitution.
		A delegate representing Afghan refugees in Iran, Abdul Qayum Sanjari, is happy over the results of the jirga.
	www.dawn.com /2004/01/08/int1.htm (625 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Human Rights
		The Afghan Government is working hard to improve respect for human rights in line with their commitments under the Constitution and the international human rights treaties to which they are a party.
		The Afghan Constitution, ratified in January 2004, establishes the AIHRC with a constitutional mandate.
		We are encouraging the Afghan government and provincial governors to ensure that political freedoms, such as the right to form and support political parties and to vote freely, are fully respected.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1050510466612 (570 words)

	Afghanistan: UN, National Officials Discuss Dates For Elections - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Afghanistan's UN-sponsored election commission reportedly decided today that the country's presidential elections will be during the month of Mizan on the Afghan solar calendar, which lasts from 22 September to 21 October.
		The Afghan Constitution calls for all attempts to be made to conduct the presidential and parliamentary vote simultaneously.
		But the election commission says it still lacks census data to calculate the distribution of seats in the future legislature.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/07/ea36aea0-b5c5-4e49-b8d7-162f33b82f25.html (789 words)

	Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Afghan Desk of HRCP, the Afghan Peace and Democracy Act (APDA) and the Lawyers Union of Afghanistan organised a workshop in Kabul on January 18th and 19th on the implementation of Afghanistan's new constitution, and women and children's rights in the country.
		It was further noted that under the constitution, for the first time in Afghanistan, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has been endorsed and the State is obliged to implement its articles for the protection of basic rights of the Afghan citizens.
		She said that her organisation had long struggled for the rights of Afghan women, and the new democratic constitution was a welcome step.
	www.hrcp-web.org /Afghan_constitution.cfm (575 words)

	Afghanistan: UN, National Officials Discuss Dates For Elections - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Government spokesman Jawed Ludin said the commission told Karzai's cabinet yesterday that a presidential election is still possible in late September or in October.
		Afghan Agriculture Minister Hussain Anwari says the election commission wants another six months to prepare for the parliamentary vote.
		Afghan officials now say the presidential vote will be during the Afghan month of Mizan, which is from 22 September through 21 October this year under the solar calendar.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/7/EA36AEA0-B5C5-4E49-B8D7-162F33B82F25.html (789 words)

	Mobilizing in the Land of the Burka
		The resulting resolution was officially presented to the Constitution Commission and then to the Loya Jirga, or grand assembly, that is currently discussing the constitution.
		Because of the courage and intelligence of these women and their willingness to involve themselves, the effect of this conference on Afghan politics could be far-reaching.
		The challenge for the organizers of this conference and for the movement of Afghan women in general will be to maintain the momentum.
	www.womenwagingpeace.net /content/articles/0378a.html (694 words)

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