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...many others who would like more freedom, the pace of change remains painfully slow. Why, they wonder, doesn't the King snap his fingers and remove some of the more obviously absurd obstacles to equality? For all the publicity about the new female members of the Shura Council, for instance, they still don't have the voting rights of their male colleagues. "This is tokenism, it's insulting," says Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi, a columnist and assistant professor of women's history at King Saud University. "We are asking for full participation. All the doors that are closed for women...
Because the elections were so critical to political stability in Afghanistan - and, therefore, prospects for the U.S.-led military mission - the U.S. and its allies needed them to go smoothly. The U.N. Security Council tasked the U.N. mission in Afghanistan to support the IEC and other Afghan institutions in the conduct of "free, fair and transparent" elections. On two occasions, I started to take action that could have reduced the risk of fraud. In July, I learned that there were 1,500 polling centers (out of a total of 7,000) sited in places either controlled by the Taliban...
HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. Secretary of State, presiding over a Sept. 30 U.N. Security Council hearing on sexual violence against women...
...vice president for government, community, and public affairs, said that volunteer groups from the University’s schools will be solicited by liaisons working for the President’s public service committee, as well as by contacts at the Phillips Brooks House Association and the Graduate Student Council. She said the cost of the commitment was “minimal”—roughly $7,000 for this academic year—and will stem from transportation to the Food Bank and lunches for volunteers...
...Undergraduate Council voted last night to create a formal UC-House Committee liaison program, as part of the UC’s renewed efforts this year to become more responsive to student concerns...