[DAILYTIMES.PK] The Afghan government has accepted a proposal to put mothers’ names on their children’s birth certificates, in a rare win for women’s rights activists in the deeply conservative country.Campaigners have for years pushed for women to be named on official documents including children’s birth certificates, which like Afghan identity documents carry only the name of a person’s father, under the hashtag #Whereismyname.
But they have faced opposition in the conservative and patriarchal Moslem country, where some see even using a woman’s name as offensive.
A woman’s name often does not appear on the invitation to her wedding — only those of her father and husband-to-be — or even on her grave.
This week the cabinet’s legal affairs committee, headed by Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish, agreed to a proposal to change the law and allow the names of both parents.
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