Many around the world have expressed concern for the state of Afghan women. Some have initiated programs to address their problems and to elevate their suffering. But very few have been able to tackle the situation with the understanding and dedication, the wisdom and the patience of Women for Afghan Women.
Her Excellency Rula Ghani
Featured Videos
Afghan Women Rising: WAW’s NYCC
Afghan Women Rising is a short video on Women for Afghan Women in the United States, and particularly our clients from the NYCC. This video shows the amazing experience with over 50 of our clients at the Women’s March on January 21st, 2017 in Washington DC. The video also presents our wonderful NYCC Program Director […]
#ByHerSide in Afghanistan
WAW’s #ByHerSide program in Afghanistan provides access to critically-needed health services including: treatment for survivors of rape or incest (including emergency reconstructive surgeries as needed); treatment for survivors of physical abuse or violence by family or community members; obstetrics and gynecological services for pregnant women (including nutritional supplements to reduce incidences of malnutrition and providing […]
Afghanistan Refugees: WAW Helps Women Adjust to Life in the U.S.
Al Jazeera America produced this mini-documentary in an April 2016 report that features just some of what we do at Women for Afghan Women’s New York Community Center. WAW client, Sitara, and her daughter have made an incredibly successful adjustment to their new lives in the United States. Sitara now has a full-time job, her […]
Featured News
Don’t Sacrifice Afghan Women’s Freedoms for a Flawed Peace Deal
Published by The Hill on February 16, 2019 By WAW’s Executive Director, Najia Nasim, and WAW Advocacy Director, Megan Corrado For the first time in years, a peace process in Afghanistan is underway in earnest. A framework emerged from recent talks between the United States and the Taliban for further negotiation, including: a phased U.S. […]
Announced Withdrawal from Afghanistan Repeats Mistakes of the Past
Retreat from Afghanistan would restore the abhorrent conditions that led the U.S. to intervene in the first place and represent a devastating foreign policy blunder. Since 2001, the U.S. has endured massive losses in blood and treasure — over 2,400 soldiers died, 20,400-plus wounded and nearly a trillion dollars spent. Afghans have suffered enormously — at least 38,000 civilians and nearly […]
Celebrating Courageous Legacies and New Beginnings
Letter from Manizha Naderi bidding us farewell and welcoming in her successor, Najia Nasim, as WAW’s new Executive Director Dear WAW Board, Staff, Donors, Colleagues, Volunteers, Stakeholders, and Friends: Words cannot adequately express what it has meant to me to have served as the Executive Director of Women for Afghan Women (WAW) for the […]
WAW Endorses The International Sanctuary Principles Statement
International Sanctuary Principles Statement Call for Endorsers The following statement sets forth five principles of sanctuary that can be used to guide grassroots and governmental response to the global escalation of displacement. It is in conformity and solidarity with the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951, a multilateral treaty that […]
Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds: A Proposed Rule by the Homeland Security Department
Today, December 10, 2018, is the last day to submit a comment to the Federal Register on the U.S. Administration’s proposed “public charge” rule, which would bar certain individuals from obtaining entry into the U.S. This proposed rule has the potential to adversely affect some of Women for Afghan Women’s (WAW) New York Community Center clients. WAW calls on all […]
Women for Afghan Women Announces New Executive Director
WAW’s Afghanistan Country Director, Najia Nasim, to succeed Manizha Naderi as WAW’s New Executive Director starting January 1, 2019 The Board of Directors of Women for Afghan Women (WAW) is proud to announce that WAW’s Afghanistan Country Director, Najia Nasim, will transition to the role of Executive Director commencing January 1, 2019. Ms. Nasim will […]
Want gender equality? Let’s start with ending child marriages
Each Oct. 11th the global community pauses to recognize and celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child. However, girls continue to face unique challenges simply for being young and female. The mere fact that they are born female often results in a devastating series of consequences, which inhibit girls from attaining gender parity, equal […]
Afghan Women Key to Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan
Published in The Hill, 08/16/2018 By Manizha Naderi and Megan E. Corrado For years, the United States has engaged in backchannel talks with the Taliban to little avail. However, news that principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Alice Wells, met with the militant group in Doha last month […]
Brought Together by Pain, 3 Girls Forced Into Marriage Have New Dreams
Published in The New York Times, 10/6/2017 By Rod Nordland Kabul, Afghanistan — Afghanistan is a place where all too often a young girl’s dreams die. But not always. So it has been with three Afghan friends, whose unrelated cases were all so awful that they are painful to talk about even now that the […]
Some Afghan Children Find an Alternative to Jail — for Now
Published in The New York Times, 12/30/2017 By Rod Nordland Kabul, Afghanistan — On visiting days in the women’s wing of Pul-e-Charki prison in Kabul, Najia Nasim would regularly see a little girl named Dahlia waiting outside her mother’s cell, standing up straight, wearing a small backpack. Inside the backpack were all of the girl’s […]
