Article: Betrayal: equality for women was non-existent in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. But is the situation any better today? Mariam Rawi of the revolutionary association of women of Afghanistan reports.(Women)

Article: "Saving" Afghan women. (How Media Creates Enemies).
Women in Action;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Helen began by asking me about my work with the Afghan Women's Mission and on Afghan women's rights. Despite my nervousness, I answered ... Foundation had apparently told her, took place among Afghan women. Aghast at this misinformation, for in my ...

Article: STATE DEPT.: U.S. COMMITTED TO HELPING AFGHAN WOMEN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... United States is working to enable Afghan women to participate and take leadership ... Department of State. The U.S.-Afghan Women's Council was created by President ... political and economic empowerment for Afghan women. The council, which also focuses ...

Article: Groups rebuke Bush administration over Afghan ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... education and health care for Afghan women. "They have failed, misguided and betrayed Afghan women by giving them false hope," said ... at a news conference addressing Afghan women's issues. "Three years later ...

Article: Working in partnership with Afghan women
Herizons;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Afghan women are advocating for full, equal and active ... assistance should be provided for them. Afghan women have proven again and again their extraordinary ... again sweeps past Afghanistan today, Afghan women continue their struggle to define a new ...

Article: Feminist Majority Foundation Unveils Back to School Campaign for ...
U.S. Newswire;  August 24, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... seven Afghan refugee young women who will begin college ... fall as a part of the Afghan Women's Scholarship Program ... announcement. "Because I am a woman in Afghanistan, I have ... Majority Foundation's Afghan Women's Scholarship Program ...

Article: Women for Afghan women: shattering myths and ...
off our backs;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... she worked to found the group Women for Afghan Women in New York City. Her introduction ... Homaira Mamoor, an Afghan Muslim woman living in the United States, says that Women for Afghan Women was tormented by the warmongering ...

Article: U.S. COMMITMENT TO AFGHAN WOMEN: U.S.-AFGHAN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... announced the creation of the U.S.-Afghan Women's Council. The Council promotes ... private sector resources to help Afghan women. Specifically, the Council seeks ... programs and priorities for assisting Afghan women and to review progress. Under ...