Women Society and Culture Afghanistan

• - Women after the downfall of the Taliban, by John Stanmeyer.
  
• - Anne Brodsky comments on the everyday life of women, and the work of RAWA.
  
• - Report on a meeting of Afghan women, calling for their right to be involved in the negotiations for Afghan future, by BBC News, with links for other articles.
  
• - WAPHA is dedicated to promoting awareness of the tragic human rights situation in Afghanistan and to fight for the Afghan womens rights. Petitions and other ways you can help.
  
• - Report on the female delegates at the Loya Jirga.
  
• - A non-profit, tax-exempt organization to establish and defend the basic rights of Afghan women. Includes current projects, reports, and news.
  
• - Report by Human Rights Watch, focusing on increasingly harsh restrictions on women and girls imposed by Ismail Khan in Herat.
  
• - According to Gary Leupp, the US governments statements on the status of women appear hypocritic when seen before the background of US politics in the country during the last twenty years.
  
• - Western governments and media care about Afghan women's rights, but prefer not to hear their voices when they want to fight for their own liberation. A provocative article by Sara Pursley.
  
• - RAWA is an independent organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan. Has pictures and movie clips of horrors and ways you can help.
  
• - Publication by RAWA, in Pashtu, Persian and Urdu.
  
• - Natasha Walter gives a detailed report on the situation of women in Kabul.
  
• - Hundreds of women taken from their families and forcibly married to Taleban men are taking legal steps to regain their freedom, reports Danesh Kerokhel for IWPR.
  
  

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