History and Standpoints: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
rawa.org

Movie clips:
April 28, 2000 Rally download page:

"Freedom" clip
"Down with the Taleban and all Fundamentalist Brothers!" clip

December 10, 2000 Rally download page:

"Democracy" clip

About RAWA

Our main goals and objectives

• To struggle against the Taliban and Jehadi types of the fundamentalists and their foreign masters.
• To establish freedom, democracy, peace and women\'s rights in Afghanistan.
• To establish an elected secularist government based on democratic values.
• To unite all freedom-loving and democratic force and to struggle against all those who collaborate with the fundamentalists.
• To struggle against those traitors who want to disintegrate Afghanistan by causing tribal and religious wars.
• To launch educational, health care and income generation projects in and outside the country.
• To support the freedom-loving movements all over the world.

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. The founders were a number of Afghan woman intellectuals under the sagacious leadership of Meena who in 1987 was assassinated in Quetta, Pakistan, by Afghan agents of the then KGB in connivance with 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 women\'s human rights 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 socio-political arenas including education, health and income generation as well as political agitation.

Before the Moscow-directed coup d\'