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	USATODAY.com - Proposed Afghan constitution to enshrine women's rights
		The draft constitution guarantees women at least one seat from each of the 32 provinces on the wholesi jirga, the national parliament, and a minimum of 25 seats in the mushran jirga, the senate, Gailani said.
		Implementing a constitution is crucial for Afghanistan as it lays the foundations for its first democratic elections in decades, scheduled for June 2004.
		Many Afghans continue to adhere to the ultraconservative views practiced by the Taliban, and implementation of the constitution is expected to take years, especially in rural areas ruled by warlords and where the government has little authority.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-10-03-afghan-constitution_x.htm (633 words)

	Afghanistan New Constitution, Afghan Site made by Afghans for Afghans
		Proposals for amendments of the electoral law cannot be included in the working agenda of the assembly during the last year of the legislative period.
		With observance of the provisions of this Constitution, the rules related to the structure, authority, and performances of the courts, and the duties of judges are regulated by law.
		For approval of the amendments, a Loya Jirga shall be convened by the decree of the President in accordance with the provisions of the Chapter on the Loy Jirga.
	www.afghansite.com /afghanistan/afghanConstitution.asp (9595 words)

	Afghan Constitution 1923
		Proposals for amendments of the electoral law cannot be included in the working agenda of the assembly during the last year of the legislative period.
		With observance of the provisions of this Constitution, the rules related to the structure, authority, and performances of the courts and the duties of judges are regulated by law.
		For approval of the amendments, a Loya Jirga shall be convened by the decree of the President in accordance with the provisions of the Chapter on the Loya Jirga.
	www.afghangovernment.com /2004constitution.htm (9332 words)

	Untitled Document
		I am hereby outlining and proposing an especial model of provisional government which believably would be fit for meeting the peculiar requisites of the Afghan national collectivity by remaking and reassembling the various pieces and bids of the completely shattered Afghan national state and society.
		Constitution, as the basic rules of the game of political process securing the existence of the state through the rule of law, is reduced to nothing, more than ever.
		Afghans are prepared to face the danger and to take the risk provided, however, that the International Community simultaneously takes in charge its own share of the burden.
	institute-for-afghan-studies.org /include/article.php?recordID=52 (8100 words)

	Political Progress Foreign & Commonwealth Office
		Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran were able to participate in this landmark election as 125 polling centres (1,130 polling stations) were established in Iran and 630 polling centres (1,672 polling stations) in Pakistan.
		Under the Constitution, the Afghan President nominates one third of the seats in the Upper House and has an obligation in making his nominations to ensure that minorities such as the disabled and the nomad Kuchi are represented.
		The constitutional process began in October 2002 with the appointment by interim President of the Afghan Transitional Authority Hamid Karzai of a nine-member Constitutional Drafting Committee.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1128333334572 (869 words)

	Constitution of Afghanistan information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 parents, and should not be guilty of war crimes.
		Two days after the constitution was officially signed by president Karzai, claims were made that the version signed contained over a dozen changes from the document approved by the Loya Jirga.
	www.search.com /reference/Constitution_of_Afghanistan (1097 words)

	Afghanland.com Afghanistan Constitution of Afghanistan 2003 2004 Official Afghan Constitution
		Proposals for promulgation of law initiated by the government are submitted first to the Wolesi Jirga.
		In order to implement proposals regarding the amendment of the Constitution, a Commission composed of members of the Government, National Assembly, and the Supreme Court, shall be established by a Presidential decree, and the commission shall prepare a draft of the amendments.
		For approval of the amendments, a Loya Jirga shall be convened by the decree of the President in accordance with the provisions of the Chapter on the Loy Jirga.
	www.afghanland.com /history/constitution.html (9546 words)

	ICL - Afghanistan Constitution
		Proposal for the promulgation of a law can be initiated by the government, or members of the National Assembly, and in the domain of regulating the judicial affairs through the Supreme Court by the government.
		Proposals for amendments of the electoral law cannot be included in the working agenda of the assembly during the last year of the legislative period.
		With observance of the provisions of this Constitution, the rules related to the structure, authority, and performances of the courts, and the duties of judges are regulated by law.
	www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/af00000_.html (10307 words)

	Afghan Constitution Commission - TheBestLinks.com - August, August 28, December 10, December 14, ...
		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.
		Bacha Khan Zadran, a Pashtun warlord in Paktia province, criticized the proposed Constitution for abolishing the hereditary monarchy.
		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.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Afghan_Constitution_Commission.html (697 words)

	Loya Jirga Report
		The small committee worked diligently and copied for the most part articles from an older constitution of the country namely the Constitution of 1964 of the era of monarchy, subtracted or changed the chapter on the person and authority of the Monarch but assigned most of the monarchical privileges to a president.
		Dr. Masooda Jalal, a known figure from the last Loya Jirga was another Afghan woman who dared speak out her mind on important issues including the performance of the transitional government and rejecting some of the claims made by Karzai as major achievements of his government.
		Khalilzad who has been with the Afghan case even from times before, during and after the Bonn Meeting and especially during the Emergency Loya Jirga was considered not only an important American personality, but a close adviser to President Karzai, who is as important to the United States as he is presently to Afghanistan.
	institute-for-afghan-studies.org /Contributions/Commentaries/DRRoashan/The-Loya-Jirga-Report.htm (3462 words)

	Afghan Women in the New Constitution
		The Constitution, ratified on January 4, 2004, was a "great start," but Sultan was disappointed that there was no ban on the Taliban taking office, for example.
		Afghan women continue to face widespread violence and have little understanding of mechanisms available to improve their status.
		The new constitution specifies equality between men and women and 25% of the seats in the lower house of Parliament and 17% of the upper house are set aside for women.
	www.wilsoncenter.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=56964 (524 words)

	Paul Marshall on Afghanistan's Constitution on National Review Online
		This June the Afghan courts shut down the publication Aftaab and charged its editor, Sayeed Mahdawi, with blasphemy for criticizing the government's view of the role of Islam.
		Serious constitutions hold that when laws violate rights, it is the law that is voided, not the rights.
		This is not foreign to Muslim countries: It is the constitutional language of Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Pakistan.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/marshall200311070906.asp (668 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		Delegates to Afghanistan's Constitutional Loya Jirga opened the long-awaited assembly on 14 December with prayers, songs by children, and a speech from the country's onetime king, AP reported.
		Female delegates to the Constitutional Loya Jirga say they are worried that their male colleagues are trying to deny them leadership positions in the process, the BBC reported on 16 December.
		Former mujahedin leaders have assumed leadership positions in the Constitutional Loya Jirga and appear to be trying to safeguard their status in Afghan political and social life by promoting conservative religious norms in the Afghan constitution.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/weeklyreport/2003/12/18.asp (5399 words)

	ICL - Afghanistan Constitution
		The current ICL edition is based on an unofficial translation of the constitutional text provided anonymously to the general public on the Afghaniyat Listserver.
		(8) If a proposal for promulgation of law is initiated by ten members of one of the two Houses and then approved by one fifth members of the respective houses, it can be admitted to the agenda of the respective houses.
		(1) In order to implement proposals regarding the amendment of the Constitution, a Commission composed of members of the Government, National Assembly, and the Supreme Court, shall be established by a Presidential decree, and the commission shall prepare a draft of the amendments.
	www.servat.unibe.ch /law/icl/af00000_.html (10307 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Afghan Constitution Seeks Balance
		While the question of how far the new constitution should tilt toward religious or secular concepts has dominated most public speculation and debate, experts said a more urgent and volatile issue is what form of government Afghanistan should have and how power should be shared at the top.
		The great majority of Afghans, whose views on the constitution were solicited last summer in nationwide surveys, want direct presidential elections but also favor a parliamentary system, which the country briefly enjoyed in the 1970s before it collapsed into a 25-year maelstrom of Cold War conflict, destructive civil war and repressive Islamic rule.
		Progressive Afghans, including several women on the commission, were appalled at the prospect of a return to the rigid Islamic ethos of recent Taliban rule, when women were forced to wear veils and harsh physical punishments were meted out to criminals.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A10943-2003Sep27?language=printer (1202 words)

	Constitution-Two Months to Ponder
		To repair the damage, a new updated constitution at par with the requirements of time on this threshold of the 21st century seems to be a must.
		The Afghan traditional values need to be married to the demands of the huge technological developments, yet the beauties and positive humanistic approaches of the Afghan culture should be maintained.
		The Review Commission would be watched with great anticipation by all Afghans who see in the constitution the solution to questions involving religious values and influence in the society, distribution of power, maintaining of justice and equality, equality in the distribution of resources and equal opportunity in economic progress and development.
	www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org /Contributions/Commentaries/DRRoashanArch/04_25_03.htm (871 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		An international conference of various anti-Taliban Afghan leaders was convened in Bonn at the end of 2001.
		Afghanistan was to be bound by its international human rights obligations and it was agreed to establish a mechanism to hold perpetrators of grave violations to account.
		Although my Afghan friends universally detested the Taliban, it was not uncommon to hear people contrast the stability that they established with the lawlessness that has swept the country since their demise.
	e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allArticles/56AD8875D7F530B787257290004565FA?OpenDocument (871 words)

	CNN.com - Anger over EU summit failure - Jun 18, 2005
		Nor did they present a clear blueprint to save a proposed EU constitution recently rejected by voters in France and the Netherlands.
		In weeks ahead, EU diplomats and others "will tell you that Europe is not in crisis," he said after the summit collapsed.
		Britain was criticized for postponing its referendum on the EU constitution after French and Dutch voters rejected it.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/06/18/eu.summit (518 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Proposed Afghan constitution to be made public this week
		Proposed Afghan constitution to be made public this week
		But after 11 months of work by dozens of constitutional experts and three months of public consultations, in which 150,000 people submitted suggestions, "a balance has been found," an Afghan official involved in the drafting told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
		The Taliban, who ruled most of the country from 1996 to 2001, ignored the constitution altogether and imposed their interpretation of Shariah.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030928-0733-afghan-constitution.html (578 words)

	NY Times - Afghan Women's Bill of Rights
		KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A few Afghan women and girls were released from jail for a day to attend a recent conference on women's rights in the new Afghan constitution, and their stories brought home the need for change in a country where 95 percent of women are illiterate.
		Their accounts could not be verified but did not surprise the Afghan women — many of them lawyers, doctors, human rights specialists and civil society leaders — gathered for four days to try to draw up a bill of women's rights for the new constitution.
		In their proposed bill, education for girls would be mandatory through secondary school, and women would have freedom of speech, freedom to vote and run for election, equal representation in Parliament and the judiciary, equal pay with men, and rights to financial independence and to own and inherit property.
	www.womenforafghanwomen.org /press/NYTimes092803.html (779 words)

	2003 Loya jirga at AllExperts
		A 502-delegate loya jirga convened in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 14, 2003, to consider the proposed Afghan Constitution.
		Afghanistan's last constitution was drafted for the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in November 1987.
		Interim President Hamid Karzai supported a constitution draft outlining a strong president and stated that he would not run for the office in 2004 if the draft was not approved.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/2003_Loya_jirga.htm (642 words)

	Kabul Reconstructions
		All the same, on November 3rd a draft constitution on which a loya jirga, or grand assembly, is to vote in December was handed to the king in Kabul.
		The progressive constitution of 1923, which abolished slavery and attempted to replace tribalism with nationalism, was undone by irate clerics from the majority Pushtun group.
		The long-delayed draft constitution, which is expected to be made public in the coming days, is due to be debated and voted on by a Constitutional Loya Jirga, or Grand Council, in December.
	www.kabul-reconstructions.net /index.php?id=217 (3669 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)

	Joint Declaration of the United States-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership
		To address these challenges, Afghanistan proposed that the United States join in a strategic partnership and establish close cooperation, including regular, high-level exchanges on the political, security, and economic issues contained herein and other issues of mutual interest.
		Regular, free, and fair democratic elections, a free press, and the active implementation of Afghanistan's constitution are hallmarks of the necessary commitment to these principles.
		The United States shares their vision of a country that is democratic, at peace, and working to improve the lives of all Afghans and that plays an important and positive role in the affairs of the region and the world.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2005/05/20050523-2.html (858 words)

	DAWN - Opinion; November 12, 2003
		An earlier draft of the constitution made available to the media in September, while President Karzai was in New York had visualized both a president and a prime minister.
		There will also be a vice president but, according to press reports, the constitution provides that in the event of the president’s death or incapacity the vice president will become an acting president and elections will be held within three months to choose a new president.
		Other Afghan commentators suggested that they were learning from the Pakistan experience where the tussle between the president and prime minister had proved to be extremely destabilizing.
	www.dawn.com /2003/11/12/op.htm (5378 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Afghanistan's proposed constitution to enshrine women's rights after decades ...
		KABUL, Afghanistan – Hoping to end decades of repression against women in this country, a proposed Afghan constitution to be released soon enshrines equal rights for all and bans forced marriages, bridal dowries, and other forms of discrimination, officials said Thursday.
		The draft constitution guarantees women at least one seat from each of the 32 provinces on the wholesi jirga, the national parliament, and a minimum of 25 seats in the mushran jirga, the senate, said Fatima Gailani, a member of the Constitutional Review Commission.
		The draft document says the government must provide women with education and health care not only equal to men, but that additional provisions must be written to care for pregnant women and educate widows whose husbands were killed during the last two decades of war.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031002-1456-afghan-constitution-women.html (639 words)

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