What next for the women of Afghanistan? An interview with Tahmeena Faryal.
The Humanist › Vol. 62 Nbr. 3, May 2002
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What next for the women of Afghanistan? An interview with Tahmeena Faryal.
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a high-profile political and social service organization in Afghanistan with a stated mission to work for peace, freedom, democracy, and women's rights. RAWA has been active for decades providing social services within Afghanistan and has built an impressive reputation as a political opposition movement, best known in the West as the source of the secretly filmed video footage of the execution by the Taliban of a woman in a burqa accused of adultery. Filmmaker Saraih Shah incorporated this material into her documentary Beneath the Veil. A good deal about the organization's inspiring and surprisingly effective work can be learned from its website www.rawa.org.
This past fall, Tahmeena Faryal was RAWA's envoy to the United States. Among her many activities, she testified before the House International Relations Committee and was interviewed while wearing her burqa by CNN's Larry King. Threats against her life and the lives of other RAWA activists prevented publication of her photograph and her real name. But she lectured to overflow audiences at numerous college campuses and, perhaps ironically, was named Glamour magazine's Woman of the Year for 2001. Most surprising to many during her visit were her ...See the full content of this document
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