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Report by Human Rights Watch, focusing on increasingly harsh restrictions on women and girls
imposed by Ismail Khan in Herat.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/afghnwmn1202/
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Afghan Women Want their Voices Heard
Report on a meeting of Afghan women, calling for their right to be involved in the negotiations for
Afghan future, by BBC News, with links for other articles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1691274.stm
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The Afghan Women Library
Collection of articles about Afghan women and links to organizations supporting them.
http://www.afghanwomenlibrary.com/
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Inside Pakistan and Afghanistan with RAWA
Anne Brodsky comments on the everyday life of women, and the work of RAWA.
http://www.counterpunch.org/brodsky0729.html
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Bare Faced Resistance
Natasha Walter gives a detailed report on the situation of women in Kabul.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,757607,00.html
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Bush, Burqas and the Oppression of Afghan Women
According to Gary Leupp, the US governments statements on the status of women appear hypocritic
when seen before the background of US politics in the country during the last twenty years.
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp0716.html
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Afghan Wives Fight for Freedom
Hundreds of women taken from their families and forcibly married to Taleban men are taking legal
steps to regain their freedom, reports Danesh Kerokhel for IWPR.
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/arr/arr_200207_17_1_eng.txt
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TIME Photo Essay: Kabul Unveiled
Women after the downfall of the Taliban, by John Stanmeyer.
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/afghanwomen/
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Payam-e-Zan (Women's Message)
Publication by RAWA, in Pashtu, Persian and Urdu.
http://www.rawa.org/payam.htm
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Afghan Women in Political Spotlight
Report on the female delegates at the Loya Jirga.
http://www10.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/international/asia/26AFGH.html
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Womens Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan
WAPHA is dedicated to promoting awareness of the tragic human rights situation in Afghanistan and
to fight for the Afghan womens rights. Petitions and other ways you can help.
http://www.wapha.org
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Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
RAWA is an independent organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social
justice in Afghanistan. Has pictures and movie clips of horrors and ways you can help.
http://www.rawa.org
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Unveiling Afghanistan
Western governments and media care about Afghan women's rights, but prefer not to hear their voices
when they want to fight for their own liberation. A provocative article by Sara Pursley.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=12507
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