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SUPPORT AFGHAN WOMEN
with the Feminist
Majority Foundation
Boxer Introduces
Bill For
Afghan Women's Security and Freedom
Urge Your Senators
To Co-Sponsor
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced
the "Afghan Women Security and
Freedom Act 2004" (S2032) before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
earlier this week. Please
email your Senators now and urge them
to support Boxer’s bill to provide
the necessary support and security
for Afghan women and girls.
This act calls for direct funding
for the Ministry of Women's Affairs,
the Afghan Independent Human Rights
Commission, and Afghan women's organizations.
The bill authorizes $300 million for
each of the fiscal years 2005, 2006,
and 2007, earmarking $20 million for
the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs
and $10 million for the Afghan Independent
Human Rights Commission each year.
The act will fund programs for women
in the areas of political and human
rights, education and training, healthcare,
and security, protection and shelter.
According to the act, "not less
than 25 percent of such assistance"
should be provided to women-led non-governmental
organizations that are located in
Afghanistan.
In addition, the act calls for the
expansion of international peacekeeping
forces and the authorization of Provincial
Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and peace
troops to intervene to stop human
rights and women's rights violations,
which the current mandates do not
allow.
Please
send a message today to urge your
Senators to co-sponsor this important
bill. Afghan women and girls need
your support.
Want to do more than send
email?
Start
an Action Team for Afghan Women
and
Girls
MORE INFORMATION
Background
of the Campaign to Help Afghan
Women and Girls
For more alerts on this
issue, see
Equality Now's column:
Spotlight:
Speaking Out About Global
Violence
Other organizations working on
this
issue:
Revolutionary
Association of the Women of
Afghanistan
(RAWA)
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