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  • March 19, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile La activista Mariam Rawi visita Canarias: “En Afganistán no hay democracia”
    "La educación es la llave para cambiar la situación de las mujeres de mi país", afirmó Mariam Rawi, activista de la Asociación Revolucionaria de Las Mujeres de Afganistán (RAWA). Debido a las amenazas que sufren allí las feministas, se ven obligadas a emplear nombres falsos como el de Mariam Rawi. "No podemos trabajar abiertamente", afirmó esta activista durante una entrevista en el programa El Correíllo de CANARIAS AHORA RADIO. more...








  • February 20, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Mehmuda Hakim: “Todas las mujeres en el país somos víctimas”
    Tampoco puede dar a conocer su verdadero nombre y se hace llamar Mehmuda Hakim. Todo por motivos de seguridad. Es lo que conlleva trabajar en la Asociación Revolucionaria de Mujeres de Afganistán (RAWA), una organización independiente y feminista que lucha por la paz, la libertad, los Derechos Humanos, los derechos de las mujeres y la justicia social en ese país. Esta joven afgana, de 27 años, entró en contacto con RAWA en un campo de refugiados en Pakistán, donde vivió seis años. De regreso a Afganistán siguió su trabajo como militante. Hace unos días visitó Zaragoza para dar a conocer la realidad de su país. more...


  • February 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile «L’OTAN n’a rien changé au sort des femmes afghanes»
    Mariam (prénom d’emprunt) milite dans un groupe féministe en Afghanistan. D’après la Revolutionary association of the women of Afghanistan (RAWA), peu de choses ont changé depuis le renversement des Talibans. Pour que la situation évolue, l’association appelle l’otan à ne plus intervenir dans la politique afghane. more...



  • December 21, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Are we fighting for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan?
    I was talking about Afghanistan the other day and it was pointed out that the USA has an obligation to stay in Afghanistan because of the Taliban’s religious fundamentalism and atrocious treatment of women.... women of Afghanistan want freedom and human rights. In fact they have been fighting for them for a long time.... RAWA continued to stand for democracy, human rights, and secular values. more...

  • December 8, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile RAWA Solidarity fund raiser in Edinburgh
    On the 14th of November 2009 a solidarity fund raiser was held to support the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). The fund raiser was held as part of the ‘Edinburgh Anti-Militarist’ week long event to oppose the Annual General meeting of NATO which took place in Edinburgh between the 13th to the 17th of November this year. more...

  • December 6, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Not all feminists love escalation in Afghanistan
    RAWA, the nation’s oldest and most illustrious feminist group, opposes the U.S. occupation. RAWA argues that the real enemy of women’s rights in Afghanistan is religious fundamentalism.... RAWA sees the U.S. occupation entrenching a regime stuffed to the gills with fundamentalists, reactionaries, misogynists, criminals, and warlords. more...

  • December 4, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Video: A Voice from RAWA: Zoya on Afghanistan
    RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, is an underground women’s organization and one of the groups that predicted a long, deadly engagement. Zoya is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of RAWA and she joined us to talk about what would really be best for the women–and all the people–of Afghanistan. more...

  • December 4, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile RAWA Representative Challenges U.S. Narrative
    Zoya, a 28-year-old member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), travels the world to speak out against the Northern Alliance, the Taliban, and the U.S./NATO occupation of her country. Representing RAWA’s Foreign Committee, Zoya spoke at the Des Moines Public Library on October 6. more...

  • November 17, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Andrea Gibson’s slam poetry benefits RAWA
    Politics. Love. Sexuality. Oppression. These were the recurring themes in Andrea Gibson’s slam poetry performance last Thursday evening. Her performance, played before a nearly full house, was a benefit event for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). All of the ticket sales and donations from the evening supported RAWA. more...

  • November 11, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Afghan Women Speak Out Against U.S. Occupation
    The women of Afghanistan, after eight years of occupation, offer conflicting advice, depending on their position in society. If the women are in Kabul, are educated and affluent, and have family members in office or are part of the government, they sometimes say, “our safety is in danger if U.S. troops leave." If the women are in the countryside (and 90% are) they say, “get the troops out now. Our rights, our freedoms, our safety have not improved in eight years of occupation — and the occupation fuels the insurgency.” more...

  • November 9, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile VT Edition: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
    The 2002 book “Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Struggle for Freedom” describes a life under the Taliban where women were largely confined to their homes and barred from working or going to school. .... Recently Zoya was in our area and VPR’s Steve Zind spoke with her. He began by asking her about the situation for women in Afghanistan today. more...

  • November 4, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile An eye-opening talk about Afghanistan
    A few Sundays ago I attended a meeting at the Friends Meeting House in Amesbury. I listened to a talk by Zoya, an Afghani woman who is touring America as a representative of Revolutionary Association of Afghanistan Women (RAWA). Zoya spoke of the terrible conditions that prevail in her country, conditions such as gang rape, kidnapping, forced marriages, illiteracy, poor drinking water, lack of electricity, doctors and hospitals. more...

  • October 31, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile ‘LIBERATION’ LIE - Afghan women, truth on the ground
    thepeoplesvoice.org: Afghan women reveal censored view of occupations, false liberations, tell U.S. and allies to get out of their country. The people of the world should know that though the disgusting, ludicrous and oppressive rule of Taliban was over in our ill-fated Afghanistan, this never means the end of the horrible miseries of our tortured women. more...

  • October 21, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Afghan Activist Calls for End to US Occupation
    As the White House debates on how best to continue the war, an Afghan women’s rights activist who goes by the name Zoya, is touring the United States with the message that the occupation must end and that the US is not acting in the interests of ordinary Afghans. more...

  • October 19, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile US should leave, Afghan woman says
    Zoya, whose name has not been revealed in order to protect her identity, has been touring the United States in an effort to spread the message of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, a woman’s rights group. Women have traditionally been treated as a subclass in Afghanistan, and under Taliban rule, were denied access to many basic rights, such as education. more...

  • October 17, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Zoya, Keynote Speaker in October 17 Anti-War Rally in Copley Square
    Open Media Boston: The keynote speech will be given by "Zoya" an Afghan activist from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). The Kabul based activist is on a bi-coastal speaking tour of the U.S. including Saturday’s Copley Square rally, Newton, MA on Sunday, Medford, MA and Portsmouth NH on Monday and then Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA. more...

  • October 16, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Brave New Foundation Raises Funds for Food for Afghan Refugees
    CommonDreams: Brave New Foundation partnered with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), which requested a total of $15,000 to ensure that every family in the refugee camp would receive oil, rice, sugar, and blankets. All funds went directly to RAWA. The funds were raised due to the generosity of Brave New Foundation members in a short period of two weeks. more...

  • October 14, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile RAWA Activist discusses Afghanistan war
    Eight years following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the human rights situation has not improved, Zoya, a representative of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, said in a lecture in Carpenter hall on Tuesday. Zoya, who does not disclose her full name for security purposes, described how her organization seeks to promote peace, democracy and human rights in her lecture, “War and Reconstruction from the Perspective of Afghanistan’s Revolutionary Women.” more...

  • October 12, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Video: Afghanistan Women Say No More Troops
    On the 8th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Her identity is hidden for her safety. Zoya, a young woman from Afghanistan spoke recently in Des Moines about the tragic situation in that country. She spoke on behalf of RAWA, The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Watch and listen to the passion, truth and courage of her message. No more troops. No more violence. No more war. more...

  • October 9, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Out of tragedy, a revolutionary is born
    The Des Moines Register: As the young Afghan woman saw it, she had three choices in the face of the repression and violence ... She could flee to America to live with relatives. She could commit suicide, as so many other despondent young Afghans were doing. Or she could do what she did and take what she calls “the way of struggle,” by joining the resistance. more...

  • October 8, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Afghan activist speaks out against violence
    The Daily Iowan: Although she answers to “Zoya,” it is not her real name. As a speaker for Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan, a group pushing women’s rights, she must keep her identity a secret. The 28-year-old spoke to a group of roughly 60 UI students and community members at the Pappajohn Business Building on Monday night. more...

  • October 7, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Afghan Women’s Activist Zoya Speaks Out on Eight Years of Occupation
    Democracy Now: We turn now to a voice from Afghanistan. Zoya is a member of the radical underground organization called RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. She was a child during the Soviet invasion of her country. As a teenager, the mujahideen or warlords killed her activist parents. She fled with her grandmother to a refugee camp in neighboring Pakistan but later returned to her country to document life under Taliban rule. more...


  • September 27, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Afghan women bear brunt of hypocritical ‘war on terror’
    If we glance back at history, US governments have never brought “peace” and “democracy” in any country. It has only forced war on countless countries, causing destruction, killing and disasters. Afghanistan is no exception. Everyone knows that the so-called “war on terror” of the US and allies is just a fake. It is an open secret today that all of the terrorist bands in Afghanistan and region, from Osama to Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Mujahideen warlords are products of the Cold War-era White House. more...

  • August 24, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Many Different Enemies - Afghan Women Fight for Their Country
    As the government of Afghanistan, under the watchful eye of Washington, prepared for its second national election since the U.S. invasion of 2001, we sat down with Shazia, a Kabul resident and member of the powerful organization RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. We wanted to ask her about the current situation in her country, and the experiences of women under the regime of Hamid Karzai and his American backers. more...

  • August 20, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Interview with Afghan activist Shazia Shekib
    Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to talk with Shazia Shekib (an alias), a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. She was in the US to speak at the Veterans for Peace National Convention and share her on-the-ground perspective on the war in Afghanistan. We talked about RAWA’s take on the US strategy for Afghanistan, and the debate in the US about how to best serve women’s rights in Afghanistan. more...

  • July 9, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Rawa: «Pour un front populaire démocratique» en Afghanistan
    Fondée en 1977, l’Association révolutionnaire des femmes afghanes (RAWA) est la plus vieille organisation politique active en Afghanistan. Sa « priorité est l’établissement d’un régime démocratique et laïc », fondé sur l’autodétermination du peuple afghan et où les droits des femmes seraient reconnus. more...

  • July 8, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Why Is a Leading Feminist Organization Lending Its Name to Support Escalation in Afghanistan?
    AlterNet: The U.S. invasion has been a failure, and increasing the U.S. troop presence will not undo the destruction the war has brought to the daily lives of Afghans. As humanitarians and as feminists, it is the welfare of the civilian population in Afghanistan that concerns us most deeply. That is why it was so discouraging to learn that the Feminist Majority Foundation has lent its good name -- and the good name of feminism in general -- to advocate for further troop escalation and war. more...

  • June 29, 2009 :: RSS :: Print :: Email :: Mobile Some Jehadi and mafia candidates in the world’s most undemocratic elections
    Amongst the presidential candidates we can generally find two groups... Amongst these, the president would only be the one most committed to US, accepting them as their masters and being their loyal lackeys. If the decision would be in the hands of Afghan people, instead of creating ‘Elections Commission’ they would create ‘Commission for investigating the crimes of the last 30 years’ and record their names in that list. Their place would be behind bars and not the Presidential Palace. more...




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