Please sign the Online Petition of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA condemning the atrocities committed by the fundamentalists in Afghanistan and the Violations of Human Rights, especially WOMEN'S RIGHTS in Afghanistan in the name of Islam.

You can help us in many more MEANINGFUL and PRACTICAL ways: As the only anti-fundamentalist feminist organization struggling for democracy and women’s rights under the siege of mediaeval-minded terrorists, RAWA is in dire need of funds to continue its hard struggle against the fundamentalist bands and implement its tens of projects in educational, healthcare, income generation, cultural and propaganda fields. Your donation will really make a difference.

Sale/distribution of RAWA publications among your friends and interested people would be a worthy contribution to their cause and to raise awareness on the horrible plight of Afghan women. Find our more about RAWA publications at www.rawa.org/payam.html.

Visit the RAWA site regularly and urge your friends and associates to visit it and help RAWA in any possible way.

If you wish to further help Afghan women, some possible ways to help them
can be found at www.rawa.org/help.htm.

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

Mailing Address:

RAWA,
P.O.Box 374,
Quetta, Pakistan

Mobile: 0092-300-551638
Fax: 001-760-2819855

E-mails: rawa@rawa.org, rawa@iname.com

URL: http://www.rawa.org
Mirror site: http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/ra_wa/index.html

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Recent News Posted October 11, 2001

Women as Refugees Responding to the grave health emergency now facing Afghan women, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is mounting its
largest-ever humanitarian operation. According to UNFPA's press release
on September 28, the agency is asking international donors for $4.5 million to support the effort.

Thousands of pregnant women are among the Afghan civilians who have fled their homes in recent days and are massed along the country's borders. The lack of shelter, food and medical care, and unsanitary conditions pose a serious risk to these women and their infant children. "When it comes to access to nutrition during a crisis, we've seen studies that show that women and, of course, children suffer more in comparison to men," said Roxanna Bonnell, a public health expert at the New York-based Open Society Institute, in a September 30 story by Women's Enews

"Men tend to gain first access to nutritional resources and women get whatever is left over." Other UN divisions that called for support for Afghan women and children include UNICEF and UNHCR


In an email to ABC News, on September 17, an Afghan woman who called herself Mehmooda, a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), a grassroots pro-democracy group that provides education, healthcare and economic opportunity to Afghan women, wrote, "If life in Afghanistan has been bleak since the Taliban took power in 1996, its confrontation with the United States promises to make things worse still for the millions of ordinary Afghans who struggle each day just to survive." She added, "According to people who crossed into Pakistan, thousands of people who can't pay that much money are waiting on the border with their children." The Washington Post also covered Afghan women on September 24.