The council ruled that the constitution-drafting commission should be directly elected, perhaps as a sop to easterners who argued that they were underrepresented by the previously proposed allocation of seats in the commission.
The European Commission is currently drafting a proposal that would raise the minimum percentage of large-company board positions within the EU that are held by women to 40%.
Nor are they likely to, though on May 25th, Mr Karzai's women's affairs minister, Sima Samar, who is responsible for drafting the guidelines for a human-rights commission, insisted there should be no amnesties for militia leaders accused of abuses, even if they support the government.
While the House Judiciary Committee is drafting a proposal for a "blue ribbon" commission to investigate the incident, a senior administration official tells CNN the White House is pushing for an independent investigation of the matter.