Good read.
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, or RAWA, is a forbidden, underground organization in a war-torn country where a woman is considered to be worth one half of a man. Writing in Moxie Magazine, lesley Mackay profiles a young woman named Bejhat, who fled the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when she was 10 and grew up in Pakistan where she learned to read - something not allowed in her homeland. Mackay chronicles Bejhat's return to Afghanistan, disguised in her traditional Islamic dress, where she tries to help the women in the country of her birth. The Taliban denies women most of their rights.
Befhat describes her fellow countrywomen as "victims of the twisted philosophy of fundamentalism." Indeed, under the Taliban, women are not allowed to show their faces in public and are often beaten and murdered by men. To combat this, RAWA operates secret schools, literacy programs, and medical teams for Afghani women. Read her amazing story:
Befhat