Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
RAWA is an independent political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan.
Afghan training centres say women to be barred from health studies
Oct 17, 2024 · Afghan training centres say women to be barred from health studies Senior employees at several institutions offering nursing and midwifery courses in Afghanistan on Tuesday said women would be barred from classes, following an …
Afghan women ‘banned from hearing each other’ in bizarre new …
Oct 28, 2024 · The Independent: The Taliban in Afghanistan have implemented a bizarre new edict that will further curb the voices of women who are already prohibited from speaking in public. Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, declared that women must refrain from reciting the Quran aloud in the presence of other women, reported Amu TV, an ...
The Coming Disaster in Afghanistan « RAWA News
Oct 28, 2024 · Global Security Review: Afghanistan, under Taliban control, is a powder keg ready to erupt with consequences that will ripple throughout the region and the world. The driving forces of this impending disaster are deeply rooted in the Taliban’s ideological, strategic, and operational maneuvers, which intensified after the American exit. The …
RAWA Photo Gallery
Sanobar, 11-years-old girl is abducted and raped by warlords (November 5, 2006)
CRISIS PROFILE: Afghanistan still the ‘sick man’ of Asia
AlertNet, June 20, 2005 CRISIS PROFILE: Afghanistan still the ‘sick man’ of Asia By Alex Whiting LONDON (AlertNet) - Devastated by decades of conflict and hard hit by natural disasters, Afghanistan is now the poorest country in Asia.
Some of the restrictions imposed by Taliban on Afghan women …
Jul 25, 1994 · Many of the anti-women rules that Taliban practiced were first of all the rules formulated and practiced by Rabbani-Massoud government after they came to power in 1992, but no one talk about them and it is painful that today even they are called the champaions of women's rights!!
RAWA News - Revolutionary Association of the Women of …
RAWA NEWS is a selection of news from Afghanistan which reflects the bitter realities of life in Afghanistan but rarely appear in the world media. The news uncover the disastrous life of Afghan women, children and the whole nation under the US occupation, its puppet regime, the brutal rule of the warlords and Taliban.
The Taliban and the Global Backlash Against Women’s Rights
Feb 6, 2024 · Human Rights Watch: In the last two and a half years after regaining power in Afghanistan, the Taliban, have created the world’s most serious women’s rights crisis. They have systematically violated the rights of women and girls including as they relate to education, paid employment, freedom of speech and movement, and political participation among many others.
A photo slideshow from some RAWA Orphanages
One of RAWA's projects in social sector is to help orphan children and take care of them. In 1986 Meena, the founding leader of RAWA, established an orphanage in Quetta of Pakistan.