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	Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women - Song and Story - RAWA by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of ...
		RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan.
		RAWA's objective was to involve an increasing number of Afghan women in social and political activities aimed at acquiring women's human rights and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a government based on democratic and secular values in Afghanistan.
		The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan takes pride in the fact that up till now we have been able to establish contact with a considerable number of anti-terrorist organizations on all five continents and enjoy their moral and material support.
	www.moondance.org /2002/winter02/sns/rawa.html (830 words)

	Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RAWA was highly critical of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, emphasizing casualties among the civilian population.
		This controversy is fueled by the fact that RAWA is rather tight-lipped about their early history and the fact that early documentation by this group was almost entirely in Pashto, Persian, and Urdu, languages understood by a relatively tiny number of Westerners.
		RAWA claims to be an important political organization in these countries while critics charge that the group is actually quite marginal in those countries and enjoys support mainly in the West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revolutionary_Association_of_the_Women_of_Afghanistan (1359 words)

	Afghanistan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Under the terms of this constitution, the president, who was elected for a seven-year term by the loya jirgah, appointed the prime minister and was empowered to approve the laws and resolutions of the elected two-chamber national assembly (Meli Shura).
		During Afghanistan's control by Mujahedin forces April 1992–September 1996, an interim administration was set up, and in January 1993 a 250-member interim parliament, the Council of Resolution and Settlement (Shura-e Ahl-e Hal wa Aqd), was appointed pending the drafting of a permanent constitution.
		The mountainous province of Takhar in northern Afghanistan was struck by a massive earthquake (6.1 on the Richter scale) in early February 1998.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Afghanistan (3182 words)

	About RAWA...
		Before the Moscow-directed coup d’état of April 1978 in Afghanistan, RAWA’s activities were confined to agitation for women’s rights and democracy, but after the coup and particularly after the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in December 1979, RAWA became directly involved in the war of resistance.
		Despite the horrors and the political oppression, RAWA’s appeal and influence grew in the years of the Soviet occupation and a growing number of RAWA activists were sent to work among refugee women in Pakistan.
		RAWA believes that freedom and democracy can’t be donated; it is the duty of the people of a country to fight and achieve these values.
	www.rawa.org /rawa.html (756 words)

	Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
		The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a women's organization in Afghanistan that promotes secular democracy.
		Since RAWA opposes all forms of religious fundamentalism, it is controversial even among women in some areas in Afghanistan, especially in Helmand, Qandahar, Jalalabad, Khost and Kunar.
		On December 10, 2000, RAWA organized a protest of hundreds of refugees from Afghanistan in Islamabad against the political situation and the killing of two protesting students at the University of Kabul by security forces.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ra/RAWA.html (279 words)

	The Plight of the Muslim Women of Afghanistan
		The Plight of the Muslim Women of Afghanistan
		The Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan is an all-female underground resistance of Afghan women who risk torture and execution to alert the world to the Taliban regime's atrocities.
		Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA is a political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan.
	www.islamfortoday.com /afghanistanwomen1.htm (1563 words)

	Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
		In the 90 percent of Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban, women are banned from working outside the home and girls are not allowed to go to school.
		The protest was organized by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).
		She said, deprivation of the entire population, women in particular, of their very basic human rights, boarding up of the doors of schools in the face of women and calling institutions of learning “Gateways to Hell”, looting to destruction of all vestiges of culture and art have become a routine practice by the Taliban leaderships.
	www.ishipress.com /rawa.htm (1554 words)

	Feminist.com:::Women in Afghanistan Fear New Taliban-Like Rule
		Since it was established in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1977, RAWA has survived because it works as an underground organization in that country.
		A spokesperson for RAWA abroad, Faryal keeps personal details and photos of her face out of press reports, due to fear for her safety.
		Religious police in the Western province of Herat have arrested women who appeared in public with men who were not their husbands or relatives and forced them to submit to gynecological exams to see if they had recently had intercourse, according to a Human Rights Watch report released last December.
	www.feminist.com /news/news201.html (1303 words)

	RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an ...
		RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independ
		Before the Moscow-directed coup d'état of April 1978 in Afghanistan, RAWA's activities were confined to agitation for women's rights and democracy, but after the coup and particularly after the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in December 1979, RAWA became directly involved in the war of resistance.
		Despite the horrors and the political oppression, RAWA's appeal and influence grew in the years of the Soviet occupation and a growing number of RAWA activists were sent to work among refugee women in Pakistan.
	www.fiatlux.info /rawa/rawabio.htm (591 words)

	Taliban treatment of women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The treatment of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban was often singled out for special attention by the Western world:
		Women were forced to cover up in a burqa, a cloth that covered the whole body so no skin would be shown, when in public, and to wear shoes that did not make noise.
		The Taliban claimed that their policies were favourable to women, but they made little attempt to promote a positive image of themselves and their policies outside of Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taliban_treatment_of_women (277 words)

	Women and Children in Afghanistan
		Women are not permitted to wear white (the color of the Taliban flag) socks or white shoes, or shoes that make noise while women are walking.
		Afghanistan's history of civil war and particularly the period of anarchy between 1992 and 1995 following the collapse of the Communist regime has contributed to the perception outside Afghanistan that while the Taliban is repressive, at least it has stopped the war and ended violent crime in the capital.
		The "peace" imposed on that portion of the country under Taliban rule is the peace of the burqa, the quiet of women and girls cowering in their homes, and the silence of a citizenry terrorized by the Taliban's violent and arbitrary application of their version of Shari'a law.
	www.simplytaty.com /broadenpages/rawa.htm (1647 words)

	History and Standpoints: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan : SF Indymedia
		Before the Moscow-directed coup d'état of April 1978 in Afghanistan, RAWA's activities were confined to agitation for women's rights and democracy, but after the coup and particularly after the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in December 1979, RAWA became directly involved in the war of resistance.
		Despite the horrors and the political oppression, RAWA's appeal and influence grew in the years of the Soviet occupation and a growing number of RAWA activists were sent to work among refugee women in Pakistan.
		RAWA sees the presence and activities of armed fundamentalist bands as the root cause of the current disaster in Afghanistan.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=104735 (1704 words)

	Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		RAWA, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, is an organization founded by Meena and comprised of women who since the Association’s inception in 1977 have been in the fore front of the struggle for freedom, democracy, social justice and inalienable human rights of women in Afghanistan.
		In the process of its struggle RAWA lost its founder and leader (Meena) who in 1987 was butchered together with two of her nearest aides by agents of KHAD (the Afghan branch of the KGB) in connivance with the Hezb-e-Islami of Gulbaddin Hekmatyar.
		Support for RAWA is homage to the overlooked, decimated, yet tenacious movement of secular pro-democracy forces in Afghanistan and shall be a concrete expression of solidarity with the movement of the most miserable, most tyrannized women in the today’s world.
	www.papaink.org /gallery/home/artist/display/93.html (1574 words)

	Afghanistan Is NOT Liberated, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
		Afghanistan Is NOT Liberated, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
		In fact, by reinstalling the warlords in Afghanistan, the US is ultimately replacing one fundamentalist regime with another.
		It is crystal clear that the US did not enter Afghanistan to liberate its people, but to punish its own wayward creations – Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/rawa1.html (382 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Afghanistan's clandestine army
		RAWA was set up in Kabul in 1977 as a movement of women intellectuals with the aim of increasing women's representation in politics and society and promoting a secular democratic society.
		One of three women, accused of adultery, is then led to the centre of the stadium where a man puts a gun to her head and shoots her.
		RAWA has hundreds of members inside the country who are still carrying out their work running literacy classes and offering basic healthcare services.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1562596.stm (767 words)

	Truthdig - Reports - Women in Afghanistan
		True, women hold 27 percent of the seats in the National Assembly and one-sixth of the seats in the Upper House.
		One U.N. report noted: “Afghanistan’s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) is estimated at 1,600 to 1,900 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, which is one of the highest in the world.” All basic poverty measures put Afghanistan near the bottom of the U.N.’s Human Development Index, and women are still at the bottom of Afghan society.
		It requires knowing that life is perpetual risk for us all and that women are entitled to face those risks in order to live as fully as they can, to reach their greatest potential, and to improve the tenor of their societies by much wider participation outside the home.
	www.truthdig.com /report/item/20061128_women_in_afghanistan (1499 words)

	The Plight of Women in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Afghan women - not simply believers in Islam - are forbidden to work, to go to school or to leave the house unless accompanied by a close male relative.
		Women again constitute the principal victims of all these misfortunes, who watch with sorrowful hearts the gradual death of their children.
		At least 97 per cent of the women in Afghanistan are suffering from major depression, 86 per cent have significant symptoms of anxiety and neatly a quarter frequently think of committing suicide, a report said.
	www.hollyhockfarms.com /dreamdolls/woman/plight.htm (2528 words)

	PhpWiki - Afghan Women
		Afghanistan's education was recently called the 'worst education system in the world' by the UN, and unfortunately Mrs.
		Women have been the first - hand victims of this reactionary movement, and imposing the veil on women by Islamic movement and Islamic governments has been their fist bloody action to suppress the whole society.
		In a recent trip to Afghanistan, Co-Directors of the Afghan Women's Mission, Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls found that the situation of women and girls was extremely dire and that little had changed since the fall of the Taliban.
	www.pnews.org /PhpWiki/index.php/AfghanWomen (3574 words)

	Online NewsHour: Women in Afghanistan -- November 21, 2001
		TAHMEENA FARYAL, RAWA: Well, the point that I want to make clear is the tragedy, the real tragedy for the women of Afghanistan begin in fact in 1992, when the other fundamentalists known as the Jihadists took power, and obviously the situation got worse when Taliban took the power.
		And the other big example of it was they denied the women of Afghanistan to participate in international women's conference in Beijing in 1996, and because they were requiring, required for the women of Afghanistan to take one of the close relatives like husband or brother or father with them to accompany them.
		The role of Afghan women in the Diaspora in the West and in Europe and the United States is providing the tools, the resources and the support to strengthen the women in Afghanistan right now.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec01/afghanwomen_11-21.html (1997 words)

	Book Review
		RAWA has founded and operates schools, orphanages, medical clinics, a quarterly magazine Payam-e Zan, which literally means women’s message, about the abuses of successive regimes, as well as many underground networks of women and men gathering information and documenting the daily realities of the Afghan people.
		Many young women who were raised in RAWA schools and orphanages have become active members of the organization, while the young men go on to be supporters and allies in the fight.
		Although the news media appears to have relegated Afghanistan to the back-page, the women of RAWA continue to be an independent voice documenting the abuses of the U.S.-backed government.
	www.realchangenews.org /archive3/2005_03_09/current/review.html (641 words)

	RAWA.ORG: RAWA statement on the International Women’s Day, Mar 8, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		There is a high rate of women committing suicide and an ever expanding cultivation and trafficking of narcotics, all while billions of dollars of foreign aid and public resources are squandered away.
		RAWA has stated several times that the government, the court and parliament under the domination of the criminal “Northern Alliance”, the Taliban, Gulbuddini, Parchami and Khaliqi traitors, will never do any good for our bereaved people.
		Women of Iran, Kurdistan, Palestine, Turkey, Latin America and other countries are in combat for democracy and against the plague of fundamentalism and war.
	www.rawa.us /mar8-06_e.htm (637 words)

	New York: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan tour
		Afghanistan, where women may once again participate fully in public life.
		Representative of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan)
		Women in Black - NY To assist with the national RAWA tour, please contact rawa_afg@yahoo.com.
	www.newsandletters.org /Announce/Women_of_Afghanistan-newyork.htm (355 words)

	An interview with Tahmeena Faryal of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan By Sonali Kalhatkar
		RAWA says the Northern Alliance is no better in terms of their human rights record, yet the United States is supporting the Northern Alliance to advance its war in Afghanistan.
		RAWA warned in the early 1980s—when many different countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, United States, and France started supporting financially and militarily the fundamentalists—that they were going to be a very dangerous phenomenon, not only for the people of Afghanistan and that region but for the whole world.
		RAWA has been calling for years for UN intervention in Afghanistan in order to disarm groups in Afghanistan as well as to sanction, militarily, the countries that supply arms and financial support to the Taliban and the Northern Alliance.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/jan02kalhatkar.htm (2599 words)

	Amazon.ca: With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The founder of RAWA, a visionary woman by the name of Meena, who was subsequently assassinated for her activism in 1987, joined together with four of her acquaintances from high school and university in 1977 to establish RAWA which quickly expanded to include a core group of eleven women.
		Shaima explains that women had to be "a fist in the mouth" not only towards the men in their families, but to society and government, where they had no position of respect or leadership.
		These schools operated for 10 years and many of the younger women of RAWA and their male supporters are graduates of these two schools.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415934923 (1585 words)

	Afghanistan Online: The Plight of the Afghan Woman
		Over 1400 years ago, Islam demanded that men and women be equal before God, and gave them various rights such the right to inheritance, the right to vote, the right to work, and even choose their own partners in marriage.
		Women who were doctors and teachers before, suddenly were forced to be beggars and even prostitutes in order to feed their families.
		The repression of women is still prevalent in rural areas where many families still restrict their own mothers, daughters, wives and sisters from participation in public life.
	www.afghan-web.com /woman (480 words)

	Afghanistan Women: What is RAWA?
		Afghani women established the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in 1977.
		RAWA provides education for children in the Pakistani refugee camps and literacy training for the women there (not even 5% of the Afghan women are literate).
		RAWA has also established women-centered production projects like chicken farms and handcraft projects to enable women to feed their families.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/women_abuse/81601 (461 words)

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