Political Pillar of UNAMA
The Political Affairs part of UNAMA is currently headed by Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber. The Political Affairs department has been successful in seeing through a number of elections since 2002. Hamid Karzai was elected as President of the Afghanistan Transitional Authority on June 19, 2002, after holding the post of Chairman of the Emergency Loya Jirga required by the Bonn Agreement.
In 2004 democratic presidential elections were held, with Karzai winning 55.4% of the vote (21 out of 34 provinces), and in 2005 Parliamentary elections were held across the country. In 2005 parliamentary elections were held.
In human rights areas less information is available but the treatment of women has greatly improved, with schooling and employment rates increasing steadily since the extremist Taliban were toppled from power.
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