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<title><![CDATA[Afghan Women Speak Out Against U.S. Occupation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.”]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:17:50 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[VT Edition: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon,  9 Nov 2009 22:53:56 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An eye-opening talk about Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  4 Nov 2009 00:00:58 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[‘LIBERATION’ LIE - Afghan women, truth on the ground]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:44:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan Activist Calls for End to US Occupation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:08:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US should leave, Afghan woman says]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:59:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Zoya, Keynote Speaker in October 17 Anti-War Rally in Copley Square]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:18:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brave New Foundation Raises Funds for Food for Afghan Refugees]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:50:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[RAWA Activist discusses Afghanistan war]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.”]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:17:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Video: Afghanistan Women Say No More Troops]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:44:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Out of tragedy, a revolutionary is born]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri,  9 Oct 2009 21:44:40 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan activist speaks out against violence]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  7 Oct 2009 23:44:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan Women’s Activist Zoya Speaks Out on Eight Years of Occupation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  7 Oct 2009 00:05:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan Women Resist Occupation and Fundamentalism - RAWA Tour USA 2009]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Afghan Women’s Mission: Afghan Women’s Mission is pleased to announce a nation-wide tour of Zoya, a member of RAWA in October 2009, exactly 8 years after the start of the US war. Zoya will share the message of RAWA in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Iowa, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and San Francisco.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat,  3 Oct 2009 00:29:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan women bear brunt of hypocritical ‘war on terror’]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:36:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Many Different Enemies - Afghan Women Fight for Their Country]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:36:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Interview with Afghan activist Shazia Shekib]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:12:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rawa: «Pour un front populaire démocratique» en Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu,  9 Jul 2009 14:22:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Is a Leading Feminist Organization Lending Its Name to Support Escalation in Afghanistan?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  8 Jul 2009 13:30:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Some Jehadi and mafia candidates in the world’s most undemocratic elections]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:11:36 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brave New Films partnership with RAWA to help Afghans displaced by US war]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking documentary by Brave New Films that focuses on what is really happening in Afghanistan as a result of US policy. Brave New Films has partnered with RAWA to provide direct aid to the displaced people of Helmand who are living in desperate conditions in suburbs of Kabul.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:01:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan feminist: No other country can grant us peace]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[RAWA is an organisation that defends women’s and human rights and advocates for a fully democratic and secular government in Afghanistan. Shazia (not her real name) lives in Kabul and teaches English, translates RAWA publications for the international media and visits rural Afghanistan as a reporter for RAWA’s magazine, Payam-e-Zan (Message of Women). During her recent speaking tour in Australia she spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Katherine Bradstreet.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:06:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan oltre il fondamentalismo mediatico]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Si tratta di Marian e Sahar, due esponenti dell’associazione afgana RAWA, portavoce della battaglia in difesa dei diritti delle donne afghane nel mondo che proprio lo scorso maggio si trovavano in Italia per una serie di incontri volti a far luce sulla complicata situazione della popolazione femminile in Afghanistan; una situazione troppo spesso trattata superficialmente e mai adeguatamente affrontata dall’intero mondo occidentale.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:23:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Get out of Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[That was the blunt message to Australia _ and the US _ on Sunday from Shazia Shakib, a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Shazia Shakib (not her real name, to protect her) on Sunday in Hobart gave a first-hand account of the struggle for human rights, democracy and secular values in her country, a nation ravaged by war and religious fundamentalism.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat,  6 Jun 2009 16:49:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women fight for rights in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Revolutionary Association for the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a group dedicated to help women suffering harsh gender inequality in the Middle East. The political group was formed in 1977. Shazia Shakib from RAWA is in Australia to raise support for the plight of women in war-torn Afghanistan. Featured in story: Shazia Shakib.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  3 Jun 2009 23:56:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women in Afghanistan: fighting fundamentalism and building their own future]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For 30 years, through Soviet occupation, Taliban rule, the American invasion and the current reign of warlords, RAWA has continued the struggle for democracy, human rights and secularism. RAWA runs health clinics, schools and adult education centres. The Taliban prohibited the education of girls and are still destroying schools and murdering teachers who dare to continue teaching.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  3 Jun 2009 01:52:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brave Voice for Women]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shazia is a spokesperson for the clandestine and underground movement known as RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Hated and banned in Afghanistan, RAWA operates through a well-organized network of women throughout Afghanistan and in Pakistan. The group is fiercely anti-fundamentalist, and abhors the use of Islam as an excuse for the continued persecution of women. For the past 30 years it has called for a democratic and secular government in Afghanistan. But it’s a call that continues to fall on deaf ears.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 18:59:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan women’s rights under threat: Interview with a RAWA member]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, has been campaigning for democracy and better human rights for women in that country for more than 30 years. Shazia Shakib is the alias of a member of RAWA in Australia at the moment, whose real name we’re not using for her protection on return to Afghanistan. She says that while many people in the West think that women in Afghanistan are now free, in reality the few rights they have are under threat.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:58:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ZOYA: “This is just the tip of the iceburg…”]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Upon hearing of the recent change in Shiite law in Afghanistan, one that stipulates that a wife "is bound to preen for her husband as and when he desires," V-Day reached out to long time V-Day activist and representative of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, (RAWA) Zoya for her comments on behalf of RAWA and the women of her country.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 14:31:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Soulevons nous contre les crimes de guerre des Etats-Unis et de leurs laquais fondamentalistes!]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2009/05/24/soulevons-nous-contre-les-crimes-de-guerre-des-etats-unis-et-de-leurs-laquais-fondamentalistes.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Alors que les occupants Américains continuent à tuer nos citoyens innocents et affligés sans remords, ils ont cette fois commis encore un crime atroce dans le village de Bala Baruk dans la province de Farah. Le 5 mai 2009, les attaques aériennes ont pris pour cible des habitations de civils, et ont causé la mort de plus de 150 personnes, pour la plupart des femmes et des enfants. Ce n'est qu'un autre crime de guerre mais le Pentagone prétend qu'il s'agit de l'œuvre des Talibans et que le nombre de civils tués n'est que de 12.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 23:36:10 -0500</pubDate>
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