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Afghan Gender Cafe
"The goal was to create a space for people to meet and talk about their experiences working on gender issues, to come together to share ideas, lessons learned and to support each other in a non-hierarchical communication space. This website is a continuation of those conversations in the form of an online cafe for networking, advocacy, activism, announcements, news and interaction...The cafe discussion forums provide a unique space to interact with others, to share ideas and information, to ask for assistance, and to tap into the collective wisdom that exists among us."

Afghan Red Crescent Society

• Health of Women and Children a Priority in Afghanistan (28 July 2001)
  "Afghanistan has the highest child mortality rates in the world with a quarter of all children not making it to their fifth birthday."

CNN.com - Restoring Women's Rights in Afghanistan (December 2001)
Interview with Gloria Steinem

Human Rights Watch Reports

• "We Want to Live As Humans:" (December 2002)
  Repression of Women and Girls in Western Afghanistan

PARSA in Kubul
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Support for Afghanistan
"...is a small, non-government organization (NGO) working directly with needy people of Kabul, Afghanistan, particularly widows, who are on the streets begging, and those who have "fallen through the cracks" of the survey nets of the big NGOs."

Physicians for Human Rights: Afghanistan Campaign - (dead link)

• Maternal Mortality in Herat Province, Afghanistan - (dead link) (September 2002)
  The Need to Protect Women's Rights
• Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan - (dead link)
  A Population-Based Assessment (Full Report)

UN Chronicle - Today, in Afghanistan
Issue 1, 2002

• School Bells from Bombshells
  "The role of women in peace-building in Afghanistan must not be overlooked."
  By Maha Muna

United Nations Development Program - Afghanistan Recovery
Sections include: Poverty Reduction ; Strengthening Capacity in the Public Sector ; Gender Development ; Post-Conflict Recovery ; Disaster Management ; Recent News.

UN Chronicle - Today, in Afghanistan
Issue 1, 2002

• School Bells from Bombshells
  "The role of women in peace-building in Afghanistan must not be overlooked."
  By Maha Muna

UNHCR Country Profiles - Afghanistan - (dead link)
U.N. High Commission for Refugees

• Women in Afghanistan: Beyond the Media Portrayal to Action
  (New York, 20 November 2001)
  Archived Video of Live Webcast
• Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation of Women and Girls in Afghanistan (July 2000)
• Afghanistan Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women (March 2000)

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

• Reproductive Health Indicators for Afghanistan (Fact Sheet)

United States Dept. of State

• Rebuilding Afghanistan
  Sections include: Washington File ; News ; Issues in Depth ; Key Documents ; Related Issues ; Photo Galleries ; Resources
  • Afghan Women

V-Day
"Inspired by Playwright Eve Ensler's play "The Vagina Monologues," V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations."
Sections include: News ; Action.

• Report From V-Day-Sponsored Afghan Women's Leadership Program (May 1, 2003)

Under the Taliban

Afghan Women: Lifting the Veil - (dead link) (English or French)
Includes Taliban decrees

Afghan Women Under the Tyranny of the Fundamentalists

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Amnesty International - Publications on Afghanistan
Includes reports and news releases from 1996-

• Women in Afghanistan- Pawns in Men's Power Struggles (November 1999)

Genders OnLine Journal

• Between Here and There: Feminist Solidarity and Afghan Women
  By Shahnaz Khan; Genders 33 2001
• Afghanistan's Forgotten Women
  By Rob Schultheis; Genders 28 1998

PARSA in Kubul
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Support for Afghanistan
"...is a small, non-government organization (NGO) working directly with needy people of Kabul, Afghanistan, particularly widows, who are on the streets begging, and those who have "fallen through the cracks" of the survey nets of the big NGOs."

Physicians for Human Rights: Afghanistan Campaign - (dead link)

• The Taliban's War on Women - (dead link)
  1998 Executive Summary with Photo Gallery
• Afghanistan Senate Testimony - (dead link) (March 1999)

Resources on the Women and the Taliban
From Drew University - Women's Studies Department

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) - (dead link)
"...as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan."

• Online Reports
  • "Afghan Women under the Tyranny of the Brutal Fundamentalists"

The White House

• Radio Address by Laura Bush to the Nation (11/17/01)
  Re: Harsh treatment of Afghanistan women under Taliban rule.

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