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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The issue has been covered by RAWA, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.

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.

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.

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.

Meena Keshwar Kamal | Meena ( 1956-1987 ), founder of RAWA

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

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.

RAWA also strives for multilateral disarmament.

RAWA is highly critical of the NATO war that began in 2001, because of the high rate of casualties among the civilian population.

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.

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