{"id":19374,"date":"2012-07-11T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/07\/20120711_aafghdemdon-2\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T13:05:08","slug":"20120711_aafghdemdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2012\/07\/20120711_aafghdemdon\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: new aid hinges on respect for women, says De Mistura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>International support for Afghanistan will hinge on the commitment by its institutions to fight corruption and respect human rights, especially regarding the condition of women, Under-Secretary Staffan De Mistura explained to the press after the Tokyo Conference on Sunday, which earmarked 16 billion in post-2014 aid.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Massively improving the condition of women<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Italy \u201cdug its heels in\u201d at the meeting in Japan, especially in regard to the defence of women, spurred by a bipartisan parliamentary motion and the government\u2019s tenacity in negotiations, in which it succeeded in obtaining a \u201cresolution\u201d for \u201cmassively improving\u201d women\u2019s conditions in a country where they make up 51% of the population, but are still discriminated against and, in the worst cases, executed for adultery. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Finding new formulas for co-existence<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Tokyo conference served to let President Karzai know that the international community respects Afghan traditions but, at the same time, that \u201cwe have the right to decide how to spend our money\u201d, De Mistura stressed, along with the hope that in the new Afghanistan \u201call components of the society will find a formula for co-existence, with the international community\u2019s support, without interference by neighbouring countries and with some fixed fundamental points such as the end of the war and the horrors of the last 12 years\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International support for Afghanistan will hinge on the commitment by its institutions to fight corruption and respect human rights, especially regarding the condition of women, Under-Secretary Staffan De Mistura explained to the press after the Tokyo Conference on Sunday, which earmarked 16 billion in post-2014 aid. Massively improving the condition of women Italy \u201cdug its [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,29,43,404,399],"class_list":["post-19374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-cooperazione-sviluppo","tag-diritti-umani","tag-sicurezza","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}