National Defence committee  In fact, there are many aspects to security. We are talking about women's rights and it is not by concentrating on terrorism that the security problems of women can be solved in the towns, villages and schools. That is not true. It means that the numerous commitments to security

National Defence committee  In the meantime, I could answer. One of the things that's striking in terms of accountability--because I've been on that end of things--is the importance of ensuring that there are more people on the ground, but also, you're asking a lot. Some of those women NGOs haven't done th

National Defence committee  I'll be extremely happy if that is one thing we get out of this meeting today, because no, there is no training for NGOs on the ground as to what accountability systems are about or what results-based management is, and those things are dearly needed. So you can't be expecting re

National Defence committee  If I may add, an embedded police trainer in all provinces is really something essential, not only in big cities, but in all provinces. So if you embedded police trainers, it would help greatly.

National Defence committee  The first issue is there is more military than we can count in Afghanistan, between the U.S. coalition, ISAF-NATO, private security, drug trafficking and their soldiering activities, warlord activities. That's why I'm saying there's a brutalization of the society that has already

National Defence committee  I want to thank Mr. Bachand for his questions. I will let my Afghan colleagues answer your questions about the jirga, they are in a better position than I am. You are right, Parliament and the government have little influence in Afghanistan. Often we hear Afghans saying that Kar

National Defence committee  Thank you for your invitation to appear before the committee. The issue of women's rights will shed light on the issue of security as regards women's rights in Afghanistan. The rights of women in Afghanistan are a way of measuring the progress made with respect to the promises