{"id":83898,"date":"2017-01-29T04:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T04:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/anti-corruption-justice-center-gets-new-facility\/"},"modified":"2017-01-29T04:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T04:46:29","slug":"anti-corruption-justice-center-gets-new-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/anti-corruption-justice-center-gets-new-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Corruption Justice Center gets new facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/jan\/29\/2017-01-29_acjc_in_kabul_unama_fardinw_10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL&nbsp;(SW): A new facility for Afghanistan&rsquo;s Anti-Corruption Justice Center&nbsp;(ACJC) opened on Sunday in a formal inauguration ceremony attended by government officials and members of the international community, including UNAMA political chief Pernille Kardel.<\/p>\n<p>The centre includes specialized police, prosecution units and courts that are designed to be independent from political and other pressures in detecting, investigating and prosecuting corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Established at the national level and unique in Afghanistan, the centre is designed to enable better coordination among judicial institutions to focus more thoroughly on major corruption crimes among high-ranking officials.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2016, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani signed a decree establishing the independent ACJC in Kabul to tackle high-level corruption cases. Its formation follows an international anti-corruption conference in May 2016, where President Ghani described corruption in Afghanistan as a national shame and promised to end the impunity of those involved in corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Along with international partners, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) worked closely with the Afghan Government to develop the centre concept and provide technical assistance in its formation. In a press release, UNAMA underlined its mandated to support the Afghan Government and the people of Afghanistan as a political mission that provides &#39;good offices&#39; among other key services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): A new facility for Afghanistan\u2019s Anti-Corruption Justice Center (ACJC) opened on Sunday in a formal inauguration ceremony attended by government officials and members of the international community, including UNAMA political chief Pernille Kar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}