RAWA: From June 9 to 26, 2024, a RAWA representative was invited to Japan by “Friends of RAWA - Japan”. The tour provided an excellent opportunity for Japanese citizens, media outlets, progressive organizations, and individuals to gain first-hand insights into the dire situation in Afghanistan. It also shed light on how the U.S. and Western policies of appeasement and imperialist maneuvers are enabling fundamentalism in the region. Shamim, a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), represented millions of girls whose lives have been devastated by the brutal Taliban regime. more...

On July 3, 2024, The Guardian reported a shocking case of Taliban’s sexual assault on a female prisoner. Taliban insurgents filmed a gang rape of a female prisoner and sent it to her later, threatening her that if she did not remain silent it would be released. This woman courageously sent the clip to several media outlets, including Rukhshana. On June 25, 2024, The Guardian also covered cases of rape and sexual harassment of girls who were detained and assaulted by brutal enforcers of the moral policing for the “crime” of not obeying “Islamic hijab”. more...

RAWA: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) responded swiftly to the crisis by dispatching a health team, including female doctors, equipped with medical supplies and sanitary materials. After a night and day of traveling through the long and flood-damaged road, the medical team reached the district of Burka, but the Taliban did not allow them to go to the village of Fullol to treat the injured and survivors of this heartbreaking incident. more...

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) celebrated the 8th of March, the International Women’s Day in Afghanistan. This gathering took place amidst the Taliban’s attempts to ban women’s activities through threats, pressure, and suppression, aiming to silence their voices of protest and crush their fighting spirit. Nevertheless, our resilient women have played a significant role in the fight against fascism and fundamentalism with courage and awareness. more...

Two years ago, the nightmare of Taliban’s takeover engulfed the people who have been treachery-stricken and fundamentalism-bitten for many decades now. On this day, by the bloody hands of the US and Western imperialism Afghanistan was once again taken from the filthy claw of its Jihadi servants and technocrats, and was put into the jaws of its Taliban predators. more...

On February 3, 2023, RAWA held a gathering in Afghanistan on the occasion of Meena’s martyrdom anniversary. Meena, the shining star of the Afghan women’s revolutionary struggles and the founding leader of RAWA, was assassinated on February 4, 1987 in the city of Quetta, Pakistan. more...

RAWA: A year has passed since the reinstalment of the fanatic Taliban back to power. It was easily predictable that women and girls would be the prime victims of this barbaric rule and are facing devastating and inhumane suppression in all areas of life. However, the women of our country proved that no force could impose their reactionary ideologies or hold them captive inside their homes. Afghan women made history by raising the flag of struggle against the Taliban and for freedom and justice. Since the first days of Taliban’s takeover, these women protested on the streets without any fear of guns or whiplashes; they were suppressed, threatened, and humiliated, but bravely continued their fight. more...

On 22 June 2022, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck Argoon and Barmal districts of Paktika province and Sapera district of Khost province in east of Afghanistan. RAWA decided to send the mobile health teams immediately so that within our limited means, we can at least help the women and girls who are usually not supported during such tragedies in the male-dominated society. We made sure to address both the physical and mental trauma afflicted upon the victims. more...

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) believes that March 8 is the day to raise the call for justice and renew commitment to organizing a serious and united struggle of women to eradicate the roots of oppression and injustice in this patriarchal society. So let us not allow the reactionism and imperialism, by taking this day hostage, empty it of its combative content to the point of making a fuss and expressing false love to women in order to hide their misogynist nature behind it. Let us unite and put an end to gender oppression with progressive and radical demands. more...

Messages of solidarity from around the world on the 35th anniversary of Meena, the founder of RAWA. We offer our heartfelt thanks to these wonderful friends and supporters for the support and love they have for our leader and struggle. more...

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: Meena Keshwar Kamal (Meena) was a revolutionary political activist, poet, feminist, and founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). She was born in Kabul on February 27, 1957. Living among a Pashtun middle-class elite in urban Kabul initially provided Meena with protection and social educational opportunities denied to many other Afghan women. According to the World Bank, the literacy rate for women aged 15 and older was 5% in 1979. Those who did not live in urban centers in particular had few opportunities for education. more...

On February 4, 2022, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) commemorated the 35th anniversary of the martyrdom of Meena, the founding leader of RAWA. The program was attended by a number of members and supporters of RAWA from different parts of Afghanistan. There were speeches, poetry, revolutionary songs, as well as excerpts of received solidarity messages from different world progressive organizations, parties and individuals. more...

The U.S. used the slogan of democracy and “war on terror” to promote an imperialist occupation and a corrupt U.S. -backed government for 20 years and to force this government on the Afghan people. The U.S. has shown that it can make peace with the Taliban when it is in its interest. All these governments use the very real need for humanitarian aid to justify diplomatic recognition of the Taliban. more...

RAWA: Wearing masks of some Afghan women victims of violence and terrorism, a number of RAWA activists organized a protest on the International Human Rights Day under the medieval rule of the Taliban. They chanted slogans against Taliban and vowed to continue their fight for justice and the rights of Afghan women. hey were carrying placards with the following slogans in Persian, Pushto and English. more...

RAWA: International Human Rights Day comes at a time when Afghanistan is no longer facing "human rights catastrophe" but the complete collapse of its human life. After the United States and NATO betrayed our people again and handed over Afghanistan to their Taliban minion, as expected, the so-called "achievements" of twenty years collapsed in twenty minutes, and made our people face an all-encompassing and unprecedented crisis. more...

RAWA: November 25, 2021, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) held a gathering with the participation of a number of its members and supporters under the misogynist and medieval rule of the Taliban. RAWA commemorates this day as the United States and its allies once again handed over power to the bloodthirsty Taliban, and now the countries of the region and the West are dealing with these killers for their strategic interests. Despite all the apparent “concern”, what is of no value to them is the fate of the people, especially the suffering women of Afghanistan. more...

RAWA: The United States and NATO are talking about a “strategic failure” in Afghanistan after twenty years of war and the massacre of tens and thousands of innocent Afghans and handing over Afghanistan with $85 billion worth of weapons and military equipment to their Taliban stooges. Today, Afghanistan is in a more catastrophic state than in 2001, in the grip of terrorism, barbarism, drug mafia, foreign intervention and other devastating miseries, and is facing economic collapse, poverty and mass exodus of its citizens. Meanwhile, the situation of Afghan women under the Taliban’s medieval oppression is the most painful. more...

Towards Freedom: From the U.S. military intervention launched under the banner of democracy and human rights to restored warlords and the resuscitated Taliban regime, Afghan women have never stopped fighting for their rights.When Taliban forces entered Kabul on August 15, appearing to have taken control of Afghanistan two weeks before the United States was set to complete its troop withdrawal, shock and fear for women’s fate under the Islamist group’s repressive rule quickly multiplied inside the country and globally. more...

Novara Media: From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban held power over roughly three-quarters of Afghanistan and enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic, law. During that period, they oversaw the oppression of women, banning them from public life and subjecting them to violence. But this time they claim their rule will be different. Taliban spokesmen have insisted they will respect women’s rights to education and to work, within an Islamic framework. more...

OCML VP: Dear fighting sisters! Dear comrades!It is with great concern that we have learned that the Taliban has entered Kabul again. The puppet regime put in place by the imperialists has collapsed like a house of cards. This may be the end of a war, but what peace can you enjoy at the hands of a fascist and ultra-obscurantist religious regime that is being set up ? more...

Organization Upgrade: The fall of the Afghan puppet government of Ashraf Ghani was inevitable. US military and government officials knew for years the extent of the corruption inside the Afghan government, military, and security forces. It was just a matter of time.As Taliban insurgents surgically carved their way through Afghanistan, toppling one provincial capital after another, the US mainstream media from the left and the right slammed President Joe Biden’s response as a “failure of intelligence.” In fact, the CIA raised the possibility of a swift Taliban takeover following the collapse of the Afghan government, but one thing above all else is true – Biden was 100% correct: the troops needed to be withdrawn. more...

RAWA: Afghan Women’s Mission has been in touch with RAWA to address their needs at this urgent time. In this brief Q&A with AWM Co-Director Sonali Kolhatkar, RAWA explains the unfolding situation on the ground as they see it. more...

RAWA: It has been more than forty years that we are commemorating 8th March in the defenseless and ever betrayed Afghanistan. This year, the situation in our country is more disastrous than ever because the US with its hyena, Zalmai Khalilzad, wants to bring its medieval Taliban mercenaries back to life to rule over the people of Afghanistan, so that it can show the world once more, that the Afghan people deserve even more brutal rulers than Jehadi fundamentalists more...

RAWA.org: Today, more than ever, it proves the veracity of this RAWA’s claim that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan had nothing to do with “war on terror” and destroying the terrorist sanctuaries, the U.S in contrast used the Taliban as a pretext for occupying our war-ravaged homeland. And after two decades of killing the innocent people, which eventually pushed Afghanistan further into the terrorism and mafia’s trap, the U.S. has come down to broker the peace talk between savage Taliban and their “religious brothers”, paving the way for them to return to power. more...

RAWA: Early in the morning on August 7, 2020, we were all stunned with a heavy heart to hear about the death of Cristina Cattafesta, the beloved friend and sister of RAWA members. We extend our condolences to her partner, Edoardo Bai, her mother, sisters and members of CISDA on the terrible loss of this magnificent woman. more...

RAWA.org: As the International Women’s Day approaches the suffering women of Afghanistan continue to be killed brutally, tormented inhumanely, humiliated and live in agony under the US occupation and domination of Jehadi and Taliban killers, reactionary clerics and the puppet government. more...

RAWA.org: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) commemorated their leader and founder’s 33rd martyrdom anniversary on February 6, 2020 in a function in Kabul. Thirty three years back, on February 4, 1987, KHAD agents collaborated with the infamous criminals of Gulbuddin’s gang, and strangled Meena and her two accomplices to death and deprived Afghanistan and especially the Afghan women, of a wise leader. After her martyrdom, Meena’s followers inspired by this sacrifice at her young age, took a solemn oath to follow her path. more...

RAWA.org: One of RAWA’s achievements and honors, especially over the last two decades, is that it has built relations with secular and revolutionary personalities, institutions and organizations around the world. Unlike the common propaganda methods of the imperialist media and institutions, we have expressed the pain and suffering of Afghan women alongside their struggle and resistance to break free from the chains of fundamentalism and colonialism. more...

RAWA.org: The grief-stricken people of Afghanistan bitterly mourn the horrific murder of Dr Tetsu Nakamura and five of his Afghan escorts. This true friend of our oppressed masses had left a comfortable life behind in Japan and spent thirty years of his life serving the needy people of our homeland. Kaka Murad, as he had become known among our people, had spent his last few years in a Taliban-hit area of Afghanistan, Nangarhar province, where he gifted life and welfare for the poor people by building more than 1500 deep wells, 11 dams and 2 hospitals. more...

Komun: Women in Afghanistan have been affected by wars and occupation of their country for decades. The plight of Afghan women has often been instrumentalized by imperialist forces, in particular the USA, to justify and legitimize their war-mongering policies in the region. However, women have been at the forefront of fighting both, imperalist and fundamentalist forces in their county. more...

RAWA.org: The national mourning days of 7th and 8th Saur this year coincide with yet another treason committed by the US after the treason of installing Jehadi criminals, Sayyaf, Rabbani, Fahim, Zahir Qadir, Abdullah, Dostum, Ismail, Atta Mohammad, Mohaqiq, Qanooni, Khalili, and others, after the downfall of their Taliban lackeys. more...

RAWA.org: On the eve of International Women’s Day, our women continue to burn in the blaze of a hell named Afghanistan laid out by the US and its Taliban, ISIS, Jihadis and technocrats stooges. This land, which the US and its allies occupied seventeen years ago under the pretext of “liberating” Afghan women, is now being reigned by tyranny and barbarism where women face the brunt of these atrocities, while the misogynist culprits enjoy the freedom of impunity. more...

February 4th coincides with the 31st anniversary of Meena’s death, the founder of RAWA. The awful enemy strangled a woman who was a defiant icon of freedom fought against the aggression of Russians and the fundamentalist criminals. RAWA members, and other democratic and liberation movements within Afghanistan still bereave the loss of a strong and wise leader, yet we continue to fight for liberty in her name. more...

Global Research: “Whoever sits in the White House will continue to serve the 1% and spread wars across the world, to maintain the US hegemony. Many corporations, arms manufacturers and corporate-employed mercenaries, benefit from the war itself, or from extravagant reconstruction opportunities the war destruction creates. The increase in the number of US troops is not to secure the country or annihilate the US creations, the Taliban and ISIS, but rather a show of US power to rivals, Russia, China and Iran.” more...

RAWA.org: Sixteen years ago, the criminal US army, with the partnership of the English colonizers, invaded our country under the pretext of “war on terror” and dismantling the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The invaders overthrew and annihilated its Taliban stooges in a few weeks, but installed the Jehadi hyenas, drenched in the blood of thousands of people, instead. more...

RAWA.org: The Taliban and ISIS brutes have committed yet another heinous crime, this time in Mirzawlang, Sare Pul, savagely massacring tens of innocent women, children and men. While every corner of our country is drowning in war and sorrow, criminals surrounding Ghani in Arg, and hyenas who have been deprived of power in Arg, all of whom are on the leash of their foreign masters, are busy creating coalitions and playing tug of war for more share in power. more...

Global Research: A suicide attacker struck the heavily guarded diplomatic quarter in Kabul with a massive truck bomb during rush hour on Wednesday morning, killing 90 people, and wounding more than 400. There was no claim of responsibility. “I have been to many attacks, taken wounded people out of many blast sites, but I can say I have ever seen such a horrible attack as I saw this morning,” ambulance driver Alef Ahmadzai told The Associated Press. “Everywhere was on fire and so many people were in critical condition.” more...

RAWA.org: 27th and 28th April, two shameful days in our country’s history are reminiscent of imprisonments, torture, killing of thousands of innocent people, mass graves, massacres, rape, looting, plunder of national treasures, selling of our country to foreigners, and hundreds of other crimes and treacheries. This year, this grave and mournful day will be marked with the arrival of the ‘butcher of Kabulis’ – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar – in Kabul, pouring salt over the wounds of thousands of people who were victims of his dog-eat-dog infighting with fellow Jehadi brothers. more...

RAWA.org: A literacy course for women was inaugurated in one of the poorest rural areas of eastern Afghanistan. RAWA members traveled to the village on April 6th, and held a small inauguration ceremony which was attended by more than eighty women. more...

RAWA.org: RAWA representative, Heela Faryal, visited Turkey and Kurdistan on the invitation of the Women’s Freedom Movement (TJA), previously the Women’s Freedom Congress (KJA). During the 10-day trip, she met with Kurdish female leaders, mayors, and had meetings and workshops with several women’s organizations. more...