{"id":93780,"date":"2019-12-09T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/wolesi-jirga-finally-approves-child-protection-bill\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T06:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T06:12:00","slug":"wolesi-jirga-finally-approves-child-protection-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wolesi-jirga-finally-approves-child-protection-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolesi Jirga finally approves Child Protection bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"521\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/December\/9\/parliament 1.jpg\" width=\"782\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Monday approved Child Protection bill that was initially tabled two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Since the bill was tabled in 2017, the determination of the legal age of a child remained a thorny issue among the parliamentarians. In today&rsquo;s session, the house finally adopted the Bill declaring 18 years as the legal age of a child.<\/p>\n<p>The Child Protection bill comprises of 16 Chapters and 108 Articles. It covers diverse issues ranging from the children&rsquo;s basic rights, social considerations, cultural growth to&nbsp;safety from child labor, trafficking and&nbsp;sexual exploitation etc.<\/p>\n<p>The Arg, presidential palace, has welcomed ratification of the Bill by the WJ.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Monday approved Child Protection bill that was initially tabled two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-93780","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\/93780","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=93780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}