Today’s Radical Radiance spotlight goes to Meena Keshwar Kamal; the Afghan woman who gave her life to fighting for women’s rights in her community. Meena was an incredibly passionate activist who used her talents to fight for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan and Internationally, in a myriad of different projects.
When she was just a nineteen ear old student in Kabul Meena founded an organization called RAWA in 1977, which stands for The Revolutionary Association of the Woman of Afghanistan. RAWA is an organization that strives to “give voice to the deprived and silenced women of Afghanistan.” In 1981 she launched a bilingual feminist magazine called Payam-e-Zan (which means Women’s Message in English). This magazine, which was produced through RAWA exposed the criminal activities of fundamentalist groups that were damaging to basic human rights.
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