Revolutionary Association of the Women in Afghanistan

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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and for social justice in Afghanistan. The founders were a number of Afghan woman intellectuals under the leadership of Meena who was assassinated in 1987 in Quetta, Pakistan .

RAWA’s stated objective is 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.

References

• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

See also Afghanistan

• Feminism
• Women for Afghan Women (WAW)
• Women and the Conflict in Afghanistan
• Afghanistan
• Afghan Women Skills Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Development Centre
• Afghan Women's Association International