The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan ( RAWA ) ( Persian: جمعیت انقلابی زنان افغانستان, Jamiyat-e Enqelābi-ye Zanān-e Afghānestān, Pashto: د افغانستان د ښڅو انقلابی جمعیت ) is a women's organization based in Quetta, Pakistan, that promotes women's rights and secular democracy.

In 2009, RAWA and other women's rights groups strongly condemned a " Shia Family Code " which is claimed to legalise spousal rape within Northern Afghan Shia Muslim communities, as well as endorsing child marriage, purdah ( seclusion ) for married women, which was passed by President Hamid Karzai to garner support for his coalition government from hardline elements within the aforesaid communities, as well as the neighbouring Shia-dominated Islamic Republic of Iran.

Ensler is a very close supporter of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan ( RAWA ) and went to Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban.

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Taliban Mutaween # Other groups | religious police beating a woman in Kabul, which was filmed by RAWA on August 26, 2001.

RAWA has so far won 16 awards and certificates from around the world for its work for human rights and democracy, some of the awards include The sixth Asian Human Rights Award-2001, The French Republic's Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Human Rights Prize, 2000, Islamabad Emma Humphries Memorial Prize 2001,

Eve Ensler was the chief guest and Sonali Kolhatkar and Zoya, a member of RAWA, were among the speakers.

RAWA also strives for multilateral disarmament.

The RAWA was first initiated in Kabul in 1977 as an independent social and political organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and social justice.

RAWA was founded by a group of Afghan women led by Meena Keshwar Kamal.

At age 21, she laid the foundations of RAWA through her work educating women.

RAWA also created secret schools, orphanages, nursing courses, and handicraft centers for women and girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

RAWA also secretly filmed women being beaten in the street in Afghanistan by the religious police, and being executed.

RAWA activities were forbidden by both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance.

After the defeat of the Taliban government by US and Afghan Northern Alliance forces, RAWA warned that the Northern Alliance were just as fundamentalist and dangerous as the Taliban.

RAWA collects funds to support hospitals, schools and orphanages and still run many projects in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including a project in conjunction with CharityHelp. org for orphan sponsorships.

Recently RAWA restarted its mission inside Afghanistan and organized some of its events in Kabul.

On September 27, 2006, a RAWA member for the first time ( perhaps in the whole history of RAWA ) appeared on a round table debate on a local Afghan TV channel, TOLO TV.

On October 7, the Afghan Women's Mission ( AWM ) organized a fund raising event for RAWA in Los Angeles, California.

by Anne Brodsky, a number of world-known writers and human rights activists share their views of RAWA.

They include Arundhati Roy who says " Each of us needs a little RAWA "; Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, who suggests that RAWA must stand as a model for every group working to end violence ; Katha Pollitt, author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture ; Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban and Jihad ; and Asma Jahangir, Special Rapporteur of the UN and prominent women's rights activist of Pakistan are two Pakistanis who write about RAWA and express their support.

Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.

RAWA also issued a report entitled “ Some reports of crimes committed by Zardad in Afghanistan ”, which were used in his prosecution.

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