Women Led Organizations in Afghanistan

In spite of their hardship, the women were able to organize themselves in groups aimed at championing the cause of women. They did so by establishing secret schools and health clinics. Some noted organization that evolved as a result is listed below.

Women Led organizations in Afghanistan

AWC Afghan Women’s Council

REFWID Feminist Majority Foundation of Refugee women in Development Inc

CCA Cooperation Center for Afghans

AWN Educators and Human Rights Commission in Pakistan, Afghan Women Network

WAPHA Women’s Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan

RAWA Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Of those listed above Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), is more prominent. This flagship resistance movement was founded by Meena Keshwar Kamal in 1977, and did everything possible to fight against the Islamic fundamentalists. Despite Meena she was martyred in 1987, RAWA still continued their efforts to improve the social conditions of Afghani women.

Meena (1956-1987), Founder of RAWA

Source: http://www.rawa.org/women.php

The fall of the Taliban and the Way Forward

The collapse of the Taliban regime in 2001, by the Northern Alliance, followed by the establishment of a temporary Afghan government under the Bonn Agreement, emancipated the women and girls of Afghanistan from their oppressive masters (AMIRI et al, (2004). However, while the liberation of the women and girls under the interim government was welcomed in some quarters, there was vehement opposition in some quarters particularly among the traditionalists.

The traditionalists opposed the move to sent over three million women and girls...

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... women” Tanaka, (2001). This is true and relevant particularly as it relates to emergency management issues and human rights issues such as what happened first in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s, Afghanistan and Colombia.

As profession of emergency management evolves, more needs to be done on a global and national scale in terms of policies, with strong sanctions, to deter one group to victimize another, with special emphasis on already vulnerable groups such as children, women, the elderly, physically challenged, hearing and visually imparted persons, the homeless and refugees or minority groups. Additionally more research needs to be done to understand why people of the same ethnicity, religion and social back ground would inflict such tyranny on its own people. We see it repeated with tribes in African such as the Hussies and Tutsis, North and South Korea,