Organisational update (director’s note):

After the first half of this years hard work and having had a successful Women Regional Stakeholders Meeting organised in Kabul, herewith I am pleased to share this joyful news with you that not only have we launched a new website today (of which some parts are still under construction), but also that our Brussels-EU Office is operationalised from September onwards.

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Women in Afghanistan: Regional Stakeholders’ Meeting. UNSCR 1325 & 1820 and the Gender Relevance of The Hague Declaration and March 31st.

The successful conference took place in Kabul on the 6^th and 7^th of July and was with the participation of women leaders from Afghanistan, Iran, India, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. At the end of this conference the Kabul Declaration was issued.

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Gender and Election Afghanistan - 20^th August 2009 - Karzai as president?

On the Afghan Election day Gender Concerns International monitored election activities from its Election Update Cell that was set up at the head office in The Hague. The Afghan elections are concluded now and the preliminary results, released on September 16, 2009 are showing Hamed Karzai as a president with 54.6%. However the official results are expected to be announced later when a separate election fraud watchdog has approved the results.

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Gender Concerns International and UNIFEM Pakistan 

As follow-up to Islamabad-meetings in January and June 2009, Gender Concerns International and UNIFEM Pakistan agreed to become partners in order to support work around SCR 1325 and 1820 in Pakistan and specifically the Pakistan National Action Plan on UNSCR1325.

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The United States must ratify CEDAW

Sabra Bano, director of Gender Concerns International, in an interview with the Pakistani GEO Television, expressed her appreciation and support for CEDAW Ratification Call in Day in U.S.

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