E/2005/27 E/CN.6/2005/11 province, as a national average, and which provide that half of the President’s nominees to the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) be women; (c) The ongoing security sector reform processes being undertaken by the Government of Afghanistan with the support of the international community, including the demobilization, disarmament and reintegration of former combatants and the recruitment of a new cadre of women police; (d) The peaceful and successful presidential election that took place on 9 October 2004 and the level of participation by women voters, who cast 40 per cent of the total number of votes; (e) The candidacy of Afghan women in both the Presidential and Vicepresidential ballots, the appointment of three women to cabinet positions and the appointment of the first woman provincial governor on 2 March 2005; (f) The recent publication of a report on transitional justice, entitled “A Call for Justice”, by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission; (g) The efforts by the Afghan Government to develop a national action plan on gender equality; 2. Also welcomes the report of the Secretary-General to the Commission on the Status of Women on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan;16 3. Urges the Government of Afghanistan: (a) To fully implement the Constitution and all international treaties to which Afghanistan is a State party, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women;15 (b) To ensure that legislative, administrative and other measures support the full enjoyment by women and girls of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including by mainstreaming gender issues into policies and programmes at all levels, and to organize sustained awareness-raising campaigns on the equality of women and men; (c) To enable the full, equal and effective participation of women and girls in civil, cultural, economic, political and social life throughout the country at all levels; (d) To ensure that women, including through ensuring women’s security, are able to register, run for office, campaign and vote in the upcoming National Assembly elections scheduled for 2005; (e) To strengthen women’s economic empowerment and their access to income-generating activities, credit, means of production, technology and resources, inter alia, by guaranteeing the property and inheritance rights of women and girls; (f) To continue to strengthen the effective, full and equal access of women and girls to health care and education; (g) To ensure that the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the permanent Afghan judicial __________________ 16 E/CN.6/2005/5. 5