- Time and Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 18:30-20:30
- Venue: Kitakyushu Municipal Gender Equality Center “MOVE” 5th fl, Main Seminar Room
- Organizer: Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women
- Co-organizer: CESA (Committee for Education of Child Sexual Awareness and wellbeing)
- Lecturer: Ms. Amina Shams, RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) staff member
- Participants: 34 persons
- Consecutive interpretation offered
Recently the mass media has not reported the situation of
Afghanistan. How is the situation of women and children in Afghanistan?
A staff from RAWA talked about the situation in Afghanistan. First, a
video about the situation in Afghanistan and activities of RAWA was
shown. Then Ms. Shams talked about up-to-date information of
Afghanistan and people there, which was not reported in Japan.
RAWA is a female NGO, acting widely in Afghanistan
and Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan in various fields such as women’s
rights, refugee education, healthcare, etc. It was established by a
woman called Meena in 1977. Rawa had been keeping various action such
as operating schools, orphanage, hospitals, etc. in a difficult time,
when former Soviet Union, Northern Alliance and the Taliban ruled
Afghanistan for more than twenty years.
