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Latest News:

   The NATO occupation and fundamentalism (14 August)
   One family's stand against rape forces the Afghan government to act (12 August)
   Aid will not help Afghanistan when criminals are in power (12 June)
   Violence at closure of refugee camp, returnees face difficulties at home (17 April and 2 June)


News Archive:

RAWA News
14 August 2008 The NATO occupation and fundamentalism, interview with RAWA member Mariam
8 August 2007 Interview with RAWA member Sohaila on ABC Radio National [mp3 audio]
4 August 2007 Newspaper article by RAWA member Sohaila during her Australian tour
28 April 2007 RAWA statement on the odious day of April 28
10 December 2006 RAWA communiqué on Universal Human Rights Day
24 June 2006 RAWA interview with the Times of India (Calcutta)
27 April 2006 Mariam Rawi speaks at the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, Adelaide
26 March 2006 Defense of Christian convert Abdul Rahman misses the mark!
8 March 2006 Statement on International Women's Day 2006
10 October 2005 RAWA interview with ABC Radio National
28 April 2005 RAWA statement on the odious day of April 28
27 February 2004 RAWA interview with Development Gateway

Afghanistan News (2008)
12 August One family's stand against rape forces the Afghan government to act
12 June Aid will not help Afghanistan when criminals are in power
2 June Aid will not help Afghanistan when criminals are in power
27 May Women attempt to commit suicide at an alarming rate
25 February Women's lives worse than ever
6 February "Because of the war there is no law" - warlord may go free
31 January Malalai Joya: My country is using Islamic law to erode the rights of women
17 January Young Afghan journalist condemned to death by hanging

Afghanistan News (2007)
December 40 year old husband cuts nose and ears off 16 year old wife
14 November Afghan parliamentarians: "Women prisoners are raped in a Kabul prison"
13 October Three years old - or not even born yet - and sold into marriage
19 September "People look up to RAWA." Interview with Malalai Joya
14 August Afghan independent human rights commission deplores situation of women
5 August War widows call for justice as war graves are discovered
9 July Afghan girls traded, sold to settle debt
9 July More than 400 attacks on schools in 12 months
6 June Female journalists killed in their homes
30 May / 2 June Demonstrations against Malalai Joya's suspension from Parliament
30 April / 27 May Iran expells Afghan refugees, another human catastrophe
22 May Afghan MP Malalai Joya expelled from parliament
13 March Speech of Afghan MP Malalai Joya at the Hawke Centre, Adelaide

Afghanistan News (2006)
29 November The Taliban book of rules declares war on schools
29 November Disembowelled, then torn apart: The price of daring to teach girls
28 November Women in Afghanistan see things getting worse
5 September How U.S. dollars disappear in Afghanistan: quickly and thoroughly
23 July The "Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice" returns
26 June Taliban attacks on girls' schools force school closures
22 May Girls forced to learn in underground schools
17 May Al Jazeera quotes RAWA on the situation of Afghan women
16 May Malalai Joya in danger after speaking in parliament
6 April Hekmatyar's party enters parliament
25 March How much does the West value the life of an Afghan woman?
21 March UNICEF warns of continued threat facing women and children
27 February Former Taliban foreign spokesman now a student in the USA
5 February Drug trade 'reaches to Afghan cabinet'
4 January Militants behead headmaster in south Afghanistan

Afghanistan News (2005)
27 October Editor of a women's rights magazine emprisoned for blasphemy
23 October Islamists and Mujahedeen Secure Victory in Afghan Vote
8 October Women sit next to warlords in the new parliament
3 October Opium farmers sell daughters to cover debts to traffickers
18 September Women’s participation in Afghanistan’s 2005 elections
17 September The women of Afghanistan find a leader
5 September Afghan women make a stand in the 2005 elections
17 August In the balance: Measuring progress in Afghanistan - the US view
17 July War crimes and crimes against humanity: 1978-2001
6 July Blood-stained hands: Afghanistan's legacy of impunity
26 April Woman stoned to death: Islam's barbarism is back
7 March Afghanistan is not better off
2 March Bitter winter kills more than a thousand children
26 February Afghan women ministers unhappy with portfolios: Karzai
21 February Human Development Report: Security with a human face
16 February Afghanistan to appoint first female governor
1 February The politics of gender and reconstruction in Afghanistan
29 January National consultation on past Human Rights violations
4 January Cousins, forced marriages and blind children
1 January Drugs and development in Afghanistan

Afghanistan News (2004)
25 December Karzai appoints three women to Afghan cabinet
20 December Concern over violence against children in Afghanistan
11 December No warlords in Afghan cabinet, say Afghan women
4 November Human Rights Watch honours Afghan activist
7 October Silence over Afghan women's rights
18 August Education Situation Still Dire for Afghan Girls and Women
15 July A Threatened Afghanistan (New York Times Editorial)
13 July Child marriage rate still high
25 May War Returns with a Vengeance (The Independent Editorial)
17 April Women performers banned from television
8 March Focus on Women's Status in Third Post-Conflict Year
February Food insecurity in Afghanistan

Afghanistan News (civil war, 1992 - 1996)
11 March 1995 Women in Afghanistan, a human rights catastrophe

Other news
25 February 2005 Foreign investment and development: Who gains?
14 February 2005 About Pakistan Women's Day
11 February 2005 Caring Men? Husbands' Involvement in Maternal Care of Young Wives