WAW in the News

2013

MSNBC • Afghan Women Worry Who Will Protect Our Rights After the US is Gone

New York Times•Scars Are an ‘Honor’ Victim’s Sole Testimony

2012

New York Times	• Letter to the Editor -- Women of Afghanistan
France24	• Afghan acid attack victim gets her Bollywood moment
Women's ENews	• Our Work for Afghan Women Must Survive Past 2014
New York Times	• With Help, Afghan Survivor of ‘Honor Killing’ Inches Back
myMADRE Blog	• Delivering Babies in Afghanistan
The Progressive	• Radio Interview with Esther Hyneman
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty	• Afghan Women's Shelters, A Lifeline For Many, Face Uncertain Future
LA Times	• Runaway population growth often fuels youth-driven uprisings
The Star.com	• Afghan schoolgirls mystery sickness: Poison or mass hysteria?
Time World	• Taliban Terror or Mass Hysteria: Who Is Poisoning Afghanistan's Girls?
Blog: Ultra Runner Girl	• RUNNING FOR A REASON: WOMEN FOR AFGHAN WOMEN
Al Jazeera	• Taliban arrested for Afghan school poisonings
The Republic	• In-laws of Afghan child bride sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture and abuse
ONODC	• UNODC chief visits transition house for women leaving prison in Kabul
The Christian Post	• 160 Girls, Teachers Poisoned at School in Afghanistan
The Asylumist	• Iconic Afghan Asylee Adopts to Life in the U.S
Global Post	• 5 Questions with Manizha Naderi
Catholic Online	• Plight of Afghan women foremost for human rights groups
Radaronline.com	• Afghan Woman Horrifically Disfigured By Taliban Husband Is Still Waiting For Happy Ending
Chicago Talks	•"Shadow Summit" Brings Light to Afghan Women's Issues
NPR	•Facing Death, Afghan Girl Runs To U.S. Military
The Christian Post	•Afghan Women Continuously Jailed for Being Raped, Prostituted and Other 'Moral Crimes'
The New York Times	•The Road Toward Recovery for Sahar Gul
World War 4 Report	•Anti-war roots of Mother's Day: forgotten history
DW	•Justice for Sahar Gul: Justice for all Afghan women
USA Today	•Afghan girl's torturers get 10 years in jail
SOS Children's Villages Canada	•Justice for Afghan Child Bride
USA Today	•In-laws of an Afghan child bride given 10 years for torture
ABC News	•Afghan Child Bride's in-Laws Sentenced for Torture
The New York Times	•In-Laws Sentenced in Afghan Girl's Torture Case
The Student Printz	•Amnesty show to benefit Afghan women
WAMU 88.5	•D.C. Women's Shelter Offers Advice To Afghan Activist
Stirring the Fire	•Afghan girl's torturers get 10 years in jail
Relief Web	•Afghanistan Tortured Afghan bride defies the odds, embarks on new life
PRonline News	•Afghan women fear U.S. peace talks will bring back Taliban
The Daily Beast	•Afghan Women Speak Out Against Violence Over U.S. Quran Burning
Voices of NY	•Afghan Group Braces for Surge of Refugees
WO=MEN IN ISTANBUL	•The floor to Afghan women!
The Christian Post	•150 Afghan Girls Poisoned in Attack Against Female Education
The Washington Times	•Taliban talks terrify Afghan women
UN Dispatch	•A Day Without Dignity: Positive Advocacy Examples from Afghanistan
The Sun Daily	•Raising the lives of women worldwide
Young Women for Change	•Sahar Gul: A Figure of Empowerment
Global Post	• Afghan women trapped in tribal court system
KidSpirit Magazine	• Victory
RH Reality Check	•Women's Rights Abuses in Afghanistan: Searching for the Full Story
World Blog from NBC News	•Fearing Taliban talks, Afghan women keep pushing to have voices heard
The New York Times	•Afghan Kin Are Accused of Killing Woman for Not Bearing a Son
Young Women for Change	•Child Marriage: Case Studies and Analysis
Global Room for Women	•Are Afghan Women's Rights Continue to be Marginalised?
Time: World Blog	•From Darkness to Light: How One Afghan Girl Struggled for a Better Future
The Daily Beast	•Sahar Gul Torture Case Shows Limited Rights, Perilous Lives of Afghan Women
UNOCD	•House of Hope helps Afghan women prisoners to reintegrate into society
The New York Times	•Four Afghan Men Held in Acid Attack on Family
Ms. Magazine Blog	•Karzai Threatens To Close Afghan Women's Shelters

2011

CNN	• On the case of a women who might have to marry her rapist
Foreign Policy	• Afghan Women Are Not Pet Rocks
New York Daily News	• Safe Havens In Storm of Abuse: Centers Offer Help to Afghan Women
NY1	• Queens-Based Group Marks Decade of Helping Afghan Women
Women's eNews	• Afghan Women in NY Reflect on 10-Year War
New York Times	• Mission Unfinished
Queens Chronicle	• More Afghans than the Census says?
My San Antonio	• Afghans Anxious About Exit of Foreign Troops
Time Magazine	• The Aisha Bibi Case: Her Father Wants to Petition the Taliban for Justice
Huffington Post	• Clinton Legacy Tied to Women's Rights
Daily Mail UK	• Father-in-Law of Time Covergirl Released
Blog Her	• Violence Against Women: The Afghan Girl and the African Maid
Time Magazine	• Revisiting Aisha
	• Abuse Often Follows Afghans to America
	• Battered, Bruised, Now Threatened by Afghan Plans For Women's Shelters
	• Afghan Proposal Would Clamp Down on Women's Shelters
Today's THV	• Afghanistan determined to control women's shelters
Fox News	• Talks with Taliban come at a price for women
NPR News	• Kabul Seeks Control of women's shelters
UN Dispatch	• Afghan Shelter Crackdown Sparks International Advocacy
Times Live	• An Intimate Eye
	• Why is Karzai cracking down on women?
Gazette	• Afghan plan poses threat to women's shelters
PBS	• Afghan Gov't takeover plan for women's shelters alarms human rights groups
	• Afghan Official says that Women's Shelters are Corrupt
The Sun	• Brave Bibi Holds Her Head High
IPS	• Bill Would Aid Women Caught in U.S-led War
Curvature	• Afghanistan Women's Shelters Threatened With Closure

2010
	• Reports from Afghanistan on how the allegations put shelter staffers in mortal danger
ABC News	• Man Arrested In Afghan Woman's Mutilation
	• Arrest made in disfigurement case
Guardian.co.uk	• Afghanistan's Propaganda War Takes a New Twist
	• Afghan Woman Mutilated by Taliban to Have Surgery
	• Afghan Girl, Bibi Aisha's Father in Law Arrested for Face Mutilation
	• Bibi Aisha's Pain Isn't Over
	• Veiled Rebellion
	• Studio Kabul, NYTimes Magazine
IPSA	• Rhetoric v. Reality: Supporting the Fight for Muslim Women's Rights in Afghanistan and Europe
Yournabe.com	• Afghan Women's Group Settles in new Queens home
Huffington Post	• Staying Honest About Afghanistan by Esther Hyneman
	• The Election is Over, Come Together, But How?
The National	• The woman who sheltered Aisha: a shocking story heard every day
	• Katie Couric Evening News

About Bibi Aisha	• Bibi Aisha stories listed separately here.
YourNabe.com	• Center for Afghan women moves from College Point to Fresh Meadows
	• Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban
	• The Plight of Afghan Women: A Disturbing Picture
	• Portrait of Pain Ignites Debate Over Afghan War
	• An Eleven Year Old Bride Escapes
Care2	• Protect Women's Rights
Uutiset	• Tausta: Silpojiaan pakeneva Haisha saa suojaa Kabulin turvatoalosta
AINA	• Child Brides Escape Marriage, but not Lashes
	• Child Brides Escape Marriage, but not Lashes
CNN Reports:	• Shelter Tries to Help Child Brides
	• Afghanistan: Should We Stay or Should We Go?
	• Diane Sawyer discusses WAW and Bibi Aisha's Story.
	• Afghan Women Leaders ask Troops to stay, for now .
	• Katha Pollitt, Time To Get Out Those Checkbooks!

2009
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	• What the Surge Means for Women
The Vancouver Sun	• Women's Rights Advocates Square Off Over Status of Afghan Women
POLITICO	• Selling realism in Afghanistan
AFP	• Women's groups want long-term US presence in Afghanistan
Romandie News	• Renforts en Afghanistan: les pacifistes sont contre, les féministes pour
InfoZine	• Women's Rights Remain a Major Concern in Afghanistan, Activists Say
KansasCity.com	• Fate of women shows stark choices before us
	• In Security Crisis, Afghan Women Leaders Demand Support temporarly removed from their website.
	• A Feminist Case for War
CNN Reports:	• Giving Afghan Women Hope (Video) click here for print edition
MSNBC reports	• MSNBC runs a feature story on WAW's Kabul Women's Shelter
	• Afghan Victims of Abuse Find Refuge. Article Featuring WAW
	• Afghan Women Slowly Gaining Protection. Article Featuring WAW
	• ;feature=channel_page" target="_self">Sunita Viswanath is New Yorker of the Week
York Daily Record :	• Advocate For Afghan Women To Speak In York
MinnPost.com:	• Women Bear The Brunt Of Conflicts, But Are Too Often Ignored In Constructing The 'Peace'
	• Afghan Women Slowly Gaining Protection
	• Randy Cohen discusses the ethics of the new rape legalization law with WAW
	Bartered for 'justice', battered women seek shelters (Part I) Bartered for 'justice', abused women seek shelters (Part II)
VOA News	Women Activists Call for Long-Term US Presence in Afghanistan

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