{"id":95129,"date":"2020-09-15T05:18:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T05:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-secures-a-seat-the-un-commission-on-status-of-women\/"},"modified":"2020-09-15T05:18:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T05:18:21","slug":"afghanistan-secures-a-seat-the-un-commission-on-status-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-secures-a-seat-the-un-commission-on-status-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan secures a seat the UN Commission on Status of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/SAMO\/Content\/Banners\/57365gdhd51iauiiYjh.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &ndash; Afghanistan has secured &lsquo;historic&#39;&#39; win on the election of Members of the UN Commission on Status of Women for the term 2021-2025<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are pleased to announce AFG&#39;s historic win on the election of Members of the UN Commission on Status of Women (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN_CSW\">@UN_CSW<\/a>) for the term 2021-2025. Despite AFG being a member of the UN since 1946, this will be the first time AFG will occupy a seat on this important commission&rdquo;, the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are grateful to all Members who recognized the strong leadership &amp; empowerment that Afghan women have demonstrated in the rebuilding of Afghanistan and the value that this experience can bring in the fight for justice and equality at the United Nations&rdquo;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Commission on Status of Women is a functional commission of the UN Economic and Social Council and is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.<\/p>\n<p>Some 45 members of the UN serve as part of CSW at any one time.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 Afghanistan has secured \u2018historic   win on the election of Members of the UN Commission on Status of Women for the term 2021-2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-95129","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\/95129","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=95129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}