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Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)



RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.
جمعیت انقلابی زنان افغانستان (راوا) قدیمی ترین سازمان سیاسی - اجتماعی زنان افغان است كه از سال ۱۳۵۶ بدینسو بخاطر آزادی، دموكراسی و احقاق حقوق زنان در افغانستان بنیادگرا زده می‌رزمد.


If you are freedom-loving and anti-fundamentalist, you are with RAWA. Support and help us.



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Meena (1956-1987)
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RAWA in Media
Ceremony of Commemorating the Thirty-sixth Anniversary of Meena’s Martyrdom
Feb.4,2023


محفل یادبود از سی و ششمین سالروز شهادت مینا
RAWA marks 36th anniversary of Meena

RAWA commemorates the 35th anniversary of Meena
Feb.4,2022

Solidarity Messages on the 35th anniversary of Meena

محفل گرامی‌داشت از سی‌وپنجمین سالروز جان باختن مینا
RAWA marks 35th anniversary of Meena

RAWA Protest on Human Rights Day Under the Savage Rule of the Taliban (Photos)
December 10, 2021

RAWA Statement on the International Human Rights Day
در نبود آزادی و دموکراسی، حقوق بشر مفهومی ندارد!
RAWA Protest on Human Rights Day

RAWA's gathering on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
November 25, 2021

تجمع «راوا» به مناسب روز جهانی محو خشونت علیه زنان
RAWA's gathering on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women


RAWA statement on the 20th anniversary of occupation of Afghanistan by US/NATO
October 7, 2021

مبارزه زنان افغان برای آزادی و دموکراسی
هرگز شکست نخواهد خورد!
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RAWA Responds to the Taliban Takeover
August 20, 2021

RAWA Responds to the Taliban Takeover


یادبود از سی و سومین سالروز شهادت مینا در کابل

RAWA commemorates Meena's 33rd martyrdom anniversary in a function in Kabul
February 4, 2020

RAWA function in Kabul


RAWA member attends ‘Women in Black’ conference in India
December 1, 2015

RAWA member attends ‘Women in Black’ conference in India


هفت و هشت ثوری‌های جانی عوامل سیهروزی مردم ما!

The murderous criminals of 27th and 28th April are responsible for our people’s suffering!
April 27, 2015

The murderous criminals of 27th and 28th April are responsible for our people’s suffering!


RAWA member attends the First Middle East Democratic Youth Conference in Turkey
March 28, 2015

RAWA member attends the First Middle East Democratic Youth Conference in Turkey


با وحدت سرتاسری، اشغالگران امریکایی و ناتو را بروبیم!

سرتاسري یووالي سره امریکایي او ناټو نیواکګر دمنځه یوسو!

Let us drive away the US and NATO occupiers with our unity!
13th anniversary of US invasion - October 7, 2014

Let us drive away the US and NATO occupiers with our unity
... more RAWA Statements and Past Events






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Taliban Govt clearing “un-Islamic” books from Afghanistan shelves November 20, 2024, AFP: Checking imported books, removing texts from libraries and distributing lists of banned titles — Taliban authorities are working to remove “un-Islamic” and anti-government literature from circulation. Checking imported books, removing texts from libraries and distributing lists of banned titles — Taliban authorities are working to remove “un-Islamic” and anti-government literature from circulation.


Afghan women ‘banned from hearing each other’ in bizarre new Taliban rule October 30, 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 Afghan news channel based in Virginia, US.


Afghanistan morality ministry spreads “living things” images ban October 28, 2024, AFP: Afghanistan’s morality ministry is gradually introducing a ban on images of living beings in media, with multiple provinces announcing restrictions and some Taliban officials refusing to be photographed or filmed, journalists across the country told AFP. Since mid-October the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (PVPV) has held meetings with journalists in one province after another.


Afghan Taliban vow to implement media ban on images of living things October 17, 2024, AFP: Afghanistan’s Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced. It comes after the Taliban government recently announced legislation formalising their strict interpretations of Islamic law that have been imposed since they swept to power in 2021.


No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine: Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech October 16, 2024, The Wire: Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by English PEN in the memory of playwright Harold Pinter. Shortly after having been named for the prize, Roy announced that her share of the prize money will be donated to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. She named Alaa Abd el-Fattah, British-Egyptian writer and activist, a ‘Writer of Courage’ who she would share her award with. The following is her acceptance speech for the prize, delivered on the evening of October 10, 2024, at the British Library.





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Books on RAWA and Afghan women:

Meena: Heroine of Afghanistan, click here to order it

Meena - Heroine
of Afghanistan

The Martyr
who founded RAWA


by
Melody Ermachild Chavis

Italian version published

Bleeding Afghanistan, click here to order it

Bleeding Afghanistan:
Washington, Warlords,
and the Propaganda of Silence

By Sonali Kolhatkar
with
James Ingalls

Zoya's Story, click here to order it

Zoya's Story:
An Afghan Woman's
Battle for Freedom

by Zoya with
John Follain
and Rita Cristofari

With All Our Strength, click here to order it

With All Our
Strength:
The Revolutionary
Association of the
Women of
Afghanistan

By Anne Brodsky


more on these books...



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