The Youth’s Political Rights Advocacy Group Held a Meeting on July

At the beginning of the meeting the report of previous meeting was presented to the participants. Subsequently, a member of the group, Freshta, presented a presentation on the National Youth Policy. She said that the policy is very idealistic and far from the truths. She added that the policy needs amendments and more concentration. The following points were declared as shortcomings of the policy:  The National Youth Policy has considered the Islamic values whereas the minority Hindus and Christians live in Afghanistan, hence consideration of only Islamic values ignore the rights of religious minorities;  The policy has mentioned only government institutions and hasn’t mentioned the non-government institutions;  The policy has considered the office of second vice-president of Afghanistan as body on oversight the implementation of the policy but the second vice-president of Afghanistan can’t oversight the implementation of this policy because he is so busy;  The policy has discussed the creation of job opportunities for youth but it hasn’t discussed the principle of transparency in employment process;  The policy has mentioned the seasonal professions but it hasn’t define it;  Restricting youth’s role only in consultation in youth affairs;  The assessment policy will be held every three months;  Allocation of only a deputy to youth is not enough  Lack of mentioning youth’s share in the government posts;  Lack of efficient working system and capacity building for youth;  Lack of a plan on public awareness on youth’s rights;