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History of RAWA
 | | Meena, the founder of RAWA. | |
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 social justice. The founders were a number of Afghan woman
intellectuals under the sagacious leadership of Meena. Meena was
assassinated in 1987 in Quetta, Pakistan, by Afghan agents of the then
KGB in connivance with the fundamentalist band of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
RAWA’s objective was to involve an increasing number of Afghan women in
social and political activities aimed at acquiring human rights for
women and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a
government based on democratic and secular values in Afghanistan.
Despite the suffocating political atmosphere, RAWA very soon became
involved in widespread activities in different sociopolitical areas
including education, health and income generation as well as political
agitation. |
 | | | For more information, visit RAWA's official website: www.rawa.org. | |
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the overthrow of the Soviet-installed puppet regime in 1992 the focus
of RAWA’s political struggle has been against the fundamentalists' and
the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban’s criminal policies and atrocities
against the people of Afghanistan in general and their incredibly
misogynistic orientation in particular. Apart from the political
challenges facing RAWA, tremendous social and relief work lies ahead of
them, amongst unimaginably traumatized women and children.
Unfortunately RAWA does not presently enjoy any support from
international NGO's, therefore their social programs are greatly
reduced for lack of funds. | |
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