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Preferred term
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Definition
- The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) was founded in 1977, in Kabul, Afghanistan, by a group of Afghan women intellectuals. Their initial purpose was to encourage the use of democratic processes, but they changed their focus to direct political resistance after the 1979 Soviet takeover of Afghanistan. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Revolutionary_Association_of_the_Women_of_Afghanistan
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