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Malalai Joya’s Defense Committee’s Campaign for Internally Displaced Afghans
Feb 10, 2022 · original
Since the Taliban came back to power last year, thousands of Afghans especially women and children were internally displaced, lost their jobs, are living in a terrible economic situation. In short, they are experiencing a humanitarian disaster. Many of the men and women who lost their jobs were the only breadwinner in their families. Click here to donate via Facebook. Hunger is rampant in Afghanistan today According to the United Nations , 95% of Afghan families are going hungry. The Wall Street Journal has reported that some people are so desperate that they are being forced to sell their children to survive. Life under the Taliban has become a terrible nightmare for millions of helpless Afghans, especially women and children. Malalai Joya has given voice to her people’s struggle for freedom, independence, prosperity and social justice for over 20 years. Malalai Joya Malalai Joya’s Defe
Malalai Joya Sends a Message to the World
Aug 30, 2021 · original
The famed Afghan activist, former parliamentarian and author of A Woman Among Warlords , Malalai Joya, recorded this brief message on August 28th.
RAWA Responds to the Taliban Takeover
Aug 20, 2021 · original
Afghan Women’s Mission has been in touch with RAWA to address their needs at this urgent time. In this brief Q&A with AWM Co-Director Sonali Kolhatkar, RAWA explains the unfolding situation on the ground as they see it. Click HERE to donate to RAWA now. Sonali Kolhatkar: For years RAWA spoke out against the U.S. occupation and now that it has ended, the Taliban are back. Could President Biden have withdrawn U.S. forces in a manner that would have left Afghanistan in a safer situation than currently? Could he have done more to ensure the Taliban were not so quickly able to take over? RAWA: In the past 20 years, one of our demands was an end to the US/NATO occupation and even better if they take their Islamic fundamentalists and technocrats with them and let our people decide their own fate. This occupation only resulted in bloodshed, destruction and chaos. They turned our country into the
20 Years of U.S. Occupation Was Brutal in Afghanistan—And So Will Be the Exit
Jul 17, 2021 · original
By Sonali Kolhatkar, co-Director, Afghan Women’s Mission Read the full article here . Opponents of the war have known since 2001 that there is no military solution to the U.S.-sponsored fundamentalist violence that had plagued Afghanistan at the time. More such violence—which is largely what the U.S. offered for nearly 20 years—only made things worse. In announcing the war’s end and pivoting to what he deemed were “happy” topics, Biden fed the “propaganda of silence” that my co-author James Ingalls and I referred to in the subtitle of our 2006 book Bleeding Afghanistan . There has long been a deliberate effort to downplay the U.S.’s failures and paint a rosy picture of a war whose victory has always been just around the corner. But there is no happy ending for Afghans, and there was never meant to be . Afghans, already weary of never-ending war in 2001, were promised democracy, women’s r
Malalai Joya on Democracy Now!
Jul 16, 2021 · original
Acclaimed Afghan women’s rights activist, former Member of Parliament and author of A Woman Among Warlords, Malalai Joya, recently appeared on Democracy Now to comment on the Afghanistan war. “As I was saying in the past, as well, and repeating again, that catastrophic situation of the women of Afghanistan was a very good excuse for U.S. and NATO to occupy our country. Unfortunately, they pushed us from the frying pan into the fire as they replaced the barbaric regime of the Taliban with the misogynist warlords, who are — their nature seem like the Taliban. They physically changed, imposed on the destiny of Afghan people. That’s why today millions of Afghans are suffering from insecurity, corruption, joblessness, poverty. And still most of Afghan women are the victim.” Watch the full interview here .
Girls School in Danger of Closing
Oct 24, 2017 · original
The War Cannot be Won with Weapons Afghanistan is a fearful place to be a child, especially a girl. Violence continues to be the norm, and Afghan women continue to suffer. According to a recent Guardian story , in Helmand province “adult women are almost entirely invisible, even in the city” of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital. The article notes that “the advancement of women’s rights has moved at a glacial pace in places like Helmand” while at the same time “the process toward peace has slid backwards.” Just last week, multiple suicide bombings have claimed the lives of hundreds of Afghans, most of them civilians. On Tuesday, at least 74 were killed by a wave of Taliban attacks in the South, East, and West of the country; on Thursday 43 Afghan soldiers were killed by explosive filled vehicles; and on Friday, suicide bombings in the cities of Ghor and Kabul, the country’s capital, cla
AWM Thanks the Lisa Akbari Foundation
Jan 20, 2016 · original
On December 12, 2015, an American humanitarian aid worker named Lisa Akbari was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan outside the gym she frequented. Heartbroken by their loss, Akbari’s family in the United States set up a crowd funding initiative to raise funds in her memory. Afghan Women’s Mission is touched and honored to be the recipient of the funds raised. We thank Akbari’s family and express our deepest condolences to them. The funds will appropriately be used to further Afghan women’s rights, a cause dear to Lisa Akbari’s heart.
One Young Man’s Holiday Wish: Raise Funds for RAWA
Dec 3, 2013 · original
This holiday season, a 19 year old from Arizona, named Aaron Peterson, contacted us saying he wanted to do his part to raise much needed funds for RAWA’s work. Afghan Women’s Mission is proud to feature Aaron’s Indiegogo campaign to raise $25,000 for RAWA by the end of this year. All donations to this campaign will go directly to AWM in order to fund RAWA’s important work to empower women and girls in Afghanistan: prejects like Danish school in Farah Province. Aaron’s message to you is: “I want you to help me change this sense of hopelessness by ensuring women in Afghanistan receive the modern healthcare, education and other resources that they require.” Please click here to visit the online campaign Aaron Peterson has launched and please give what you can this holiday season!
Huffington Post: A Woman Among Warlords: An Interview With Malalai Joya
Oct 27, 2013 · original
By Suzanne Persard Published in Huffington Post on 10/25/2013 Most publications incorrectly report the number of assassination attempts Malalai Joya has received — the number is seven, not six; and these are only the number of plots that have been counted. In 2007, Joya, the youngest elected member to the Afghan parliament, was expelled from the government for her denunciation of incumbent corrupt warlords. The then 28-year-old Joya advocated for women’s rights, spoke out against the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and their locally installed puppets, while deeming the Taliban medieval. Death threats against her immediately erupted, followed by several unsuccessful assassination attempts by the Taliban. Following her indefinite expulsion from a parliament she has likened to a “non-democratic mafia,” Joya’s unpopularity, which surged at home, spread like wildfire abroad. Applying for entry t
The Cost of Courage: Malalai Joya’s Life-Risking Activism
Oct 13, 2013 · original
Originally published on Truthdig.com on Oct 10, 2013 By Sonali Kolhatkar Contrary to her small stature, Afghan activist Malalai Joya is a towering figure among ordinary Afghans. At the tender age of 25, she openly challenged her country’s notorious U.S.-backed criminal warlords at the 2003 Constitutional Loya Jirga (popular assembly) in Kabul. She thundered, “It is a mistake to test those already being tested. They should be taken to national and international court. Even if they are forgiven by our people, the bare-footed Afghan people, history will never forgive them,” before her microphone was abruptly cut off. Today, after a decade of narrowly escaping numerous assassination attempts as a result of that infamous public confrontation, she remains politically active underground and continues to call out the warlords. She also demands the U.S. government immediately end its war and occu

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