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Activists and organizers of the Green Party of the United States are demanding that the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) be represented in international talks on the future of Afghanistan beginning this week in Bonn, Germany. RAWA has worked for years to end the suppression of women's rights and abuse of women in Afghanistan by both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance before them. These women have proved to the whole world their right to attend through all the work and risks they have undertaken in their struggle to bring democracy, freedom, human rights and women's rights to the Afghan society. Though Bush and others in the administration used the suffering of women as an excuse to begin their war, their true disregard for those same women became clear when not a single woman was invited to join 1,200 representatives of various Afghan ethnicities, religious groups, and political factions at a peace and unity conference in Peshawar last month. In a further showing of the hypocrisy of Bush and other involved US representatives, RAWA was not invited to join U.S. officials, United Nations representatives, and five Afghan groups in the upcoming talks. RAWA has issued an urgent request for international action to secure an invitation to the meeting which may otherwise place control of Afghanistan into the hands of two alleged Afghan war criminals, Burhanuddin Rabbani and General Dostrum of the Northern Alliance. UPDATE: US Allies ban women's march in Afghanistan.Read the story [ RAWA on commencement of US bombing | testimony before US House | appeal regarding northern alliance | taliban's bravest opponents | RAWA website ]
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