WAW in the News

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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