WISA Launch Dinner With Malalai Joya
Written by WISA Tuesday, 15 February 2011 10:28
We were joined by our Afghan guest Joya who was a passionate speaker and keen to share her experiences of her life as a politician in Afghanistan.
Joanna, WISA, February 15, 2011
The Women's International Solidarity Australia (WISA) launch and fundraising dinner for Malalai Joya was a wonderful evening where we WISAs said ‘hello’ to the world. We were joined by our Afghan guest Joya who was a passionate speaker and keen to share her experiences of her life as a politician in Afghanistan.
Joya spoke of the real atrocities of the war in Afghanistan that rarely gets reported by the media, and of the daily struggle for women in her country against rape, violence and unjust oppression.
Malalai Joya: Speaking for a crippled nation
Written by ABC Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:00
I met with Malalai, as NATO was discussing her country’s future in Lisbon.
Anna Greer, ABC, November 24, 2010
In 2003, a 25-year-old woman, all of five feet tall, stood up in front of warlords and war criminals who were determining Afghanistan’s future constitution and said:
“My name is Malalai Joya from Farah province... Why would you allow criminals to be present here? They are responsible for our situation now... It is they who turned our country into the centre of national and international wars. They are the most anti-woman elements in our society who brought our country to this state and they intend to do the same again.”
Since then Malalai has been famous in Afghanistan and abroad. She was elected to the new Afghan parliament in a landslide but was suspended after appearing on a television show where she compared the parliament to an animal stable. She has survived four assassination attempts and has received countless death threats.
Malalai Joya: ‘Stop playing with the destiny of Afghan people’
Written by Green Left Weekly Sunday, 21 November 2010 19:58
Joya said the recent rigged parliamentary elections were “a selection not an election”.
Green Left Weekly, November 21, 2010
Malalai Joya. (Photo: Kiraz Janicke)
Afghan feminist and anti-war activist Malalai Joya urged 400 people at the University of Technology Sydney to get the Australian government to pull the troops out of her country. The Afghan people were capable of winning against the fundamentalist warlords, but not while Western occupying troops rehabilitated the Taliban, she said.
“There is no such thing as a ‘moderate’ Taliban”, she said, referring to US-NATO support for Afghan President Hamid Kazai’s attempts at power sharing with the Taliban. Joya also criticised the Australian government for training the militia of Oruzgan warlord Matiullah Khan.
Read more: Malalai Joya: ‘Stop playing with the destiny of Afghan people’
A defiant woman won’t be silenced by the warlords or fundamentalists
Written by The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:00
She was invited to Australia by Deakin University to be the keynote speaker
Adele Horin, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 18, 2010
Malalai Joya ... critic of the Karzai government. (Photo: Steve Christo)
A LOT of people have tried to silence Malalai Joya. When she spoke in the Afghan parliament as its youngest elected member, the microphones would be turned off. When that didn't deter her, her fellow parliamentarians expelled her.
She has survived four assassination attempts, and still she speaks out, denouncing the warlords, the ''criminals'' in the Hamid Karzai government, the terrorist Taliban, and the occupying troops.
Read more: A defiant woman won’t be silenced by the warlords or fundamentalists
Afghan women continue to suffer despite the West
Written by The Age Saturday, 13 November 2010 10:11
Ms Joya will discuss the Afghanistan conflict at a public lecture today at Deakin University in Burwood.
Daniel Flitton, The Age, November 13, 2010
Malalai Joya believes the solution to the Afghanistan conflict is the withdrawal of foreign troops. (Photo: John Woudstra)
THE plight of women in Afghanistan is no excuse for Western ''occupation'' of the country, a leading Afghan opponent of the war and former MP has declared.
Malalai Joya - the youngest woman elected to the Afghanistan Parliament, in 2004, who then faced death threats for her outspoken criticism of tribal warlords - said the image of Afghan women was being unfairly used to justify the foreign presence.
Afghan activist sees U.S./NATO as terrorists and Obama as a “second Bush”
Written by Examiner.com Wednesday, 03 November 2010 00:00
Joya stated future hope lies in the strengthening and expansion of a national anti-fundamentalist and democracy-loving movement
Michael Hughes, Examiner.com, November 3, 2010
Afghan activist Malalai Joya survived four assasination attempts for her bold views. (Photo: Getty)
Afghan human rights activist Malalai Joya wrote in the Guardian on Tuesday that the U.S., NATO and Karzai's government are the biggest terrorists in the eyes of the Afghan people and asserted that U.S. President Barack Obama has only brought "change" for the worse, characterizing him as nothing more than a "second Bush".
Joya, who has been called the “bravest woman in Afghanistan” and this year was named by TIME magazine as one of the most influential people in the world, had been suspended from parliament in May 2007 for, rightfully, accusing several colleagues of being warlords and unfit for service in the new Afghan government. She has survived four assassination attempts since and responded to her enemies by declaring:
Read more: Afghan activist sees U.S./NATO as terrorists and Obama as a “second Bush”
Inter-Parliamentary Union frustrated by behavior of Afghan parliament regarding Malalai Joya’s case
Written by IPU Thursday, 14 October 2010 00:00
Resolution adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 187th session (Geneva, 6 October 2010)
IPU, 14/10/2010
The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Referring to the case of Ms. Malalai Joya, a member of the House of Representatives of Afghanistan, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/187/12(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 186th session (April 2010), Noting that, at its session held during the 123rd IPU Assembly, the Committee held a hearing with the leader of the Afghan delegation,
Afghan activist calls for end to NATO ‘occupation’ of her country
Written by The Vancouver Sun Monday, 11 October 2010 06:27
Joya asked Canadians to join antiwar organizations.
By Lea Storry, Postmedia News, The Vancouver Sun, October 11, 2010
Malalai Joya, an outspoken critic of the war in Afghanistan and the youngest woman elected to that country's parliament speaks at the University of Calgary on Sunday October 10, 2010.
Photograph by: Gavin Young, Calgary Herald
CALGARY — The youngest woman ever elected to Afghanistan's parliament told a Canadian audience Sunday that the NATO occupation of her homeland is supporting a puppet government and making Afghanistan a haven for terrorists and drug-trafficking.
Malalai Joya, an outspoken critic of NATO and the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, was invited to speak at the University of Calgary on Sunday by the Afghan Canadian Students' Association.
On her first visit to Calgary, the 32-year-old said Afghanistan called on Canadians to support the fight for a lasting democracy in Afghanistan.
Read more: Afghan activist calls for end to NATO ‘occupation’ of her country
Friends: Malalai Joya and Tal Haran
Written by Catalunya Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:00
Young woman like Malalai Joya can daily confront so powerful enemies
Toni Álvarez, Catalunya, September 2010
Translated from Catalan by Maria Romano
It is well known that women have been, again and again, the main figures in the armed conflicts that have occurred in the course of modern history (a well as in not so modern history).
Most of the times, women have been triple victims, as mothers, partners or just by themselves. Sometimes, they have also been decisive opponents to the wars that were slaughtering them.
Female MP takes on Afghan patriarchy
Written by The National Sunday, 05 September 2010 00:00
She describes the Taliban and the foreign troops as “enemies” and believes both must be opposed.
Chris Sands, The National, September 5, 2010
Malalai Joya, an Afghan legislator who two years ago called powerful armed leaders “criminals” and who last week on the floor of parliament called some lawmakers warlords, now stays in a different house each night because of death threats. (Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
KABUL // With international forces edging close to withdrawal and Taliban violence on the rise, Afghanistan’s women appears to be facing a grim future.
A suspected poison gas attack on a girl’s school in Kabul last month highlights the dangers that exist in a society dominated by patriarchal tribal traditions. Dozens of students were injured in the kind of incident that is becoming commonplace across the country.
Faced with this climate of intimidation, women are starting to debate what role they will have in the years ahead as the political momentum at home and abroad shifts towards some sort of peace deal.
‘The bravest woman in Afghanistan’ talks about peace, justice and women’s rights
Written by The Ryerson Free Press Wednesday, 03 February 2010 17:25
Why Canada must leave Afghanistan now
Haseena Manek, The Ryerson Free Press, February 3, 2010
Malalai Joya was just 27 years old when she became the youngest person ever to be elected to Afghanistan’s parliament. That was in 2005. Four years later, she is also an author, a teacher, a peace activist, a women’s rights campaigner and a survivor of multiple assassination attempts.
Joya was recently in Canada to promote her memoir, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Speak Out, and to appear at numerous peace events across the country.
Read more: ‘The bravest woman in Afghanistan’ talks about peace, justice and women’s rights
US troops increase as local hero says no – Afghanistan’s Malalai Joya
Written by Women News Network – WNN Tuesday, 01 December 2009 01:27
Teaching literacy classes at the age of 19, Malalai dedicated her life to speak out for those who could not speak
Joseph Mayton, Women News Network – WNN, December 1, 2009
Malalai Joya visits girls school in Farah Province, July 17, 2007.
Her name doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. But what makes Malalai Joya who she is has nothing to do with her name. It is the fact that the former Afghanistan Member of Parliament is not shy about speaking her mind. It has run her into danger, literally, with Joya being forced to bolster her security in 2006 as she continued to speak out against the corruption of the Afghanistan government in the face of death threats. Now she’s talking about U.S. troops increase as President Obama sets a brand new policy for Afghanistan.
In September 2005, at the age of 27, Joya was one of the youngest MPs voted into the Afghan Assembly (Parliament), also known as the Constitutional Loya Jirga. She gained popularity with the people from her province to the south of Afghanistan much earlier, in 1998, founding orphanages, teaching at secret “Taliban banned” schools for girls and setting up the first dedicated women’s clinic at the Hamoon Health Centre.
Read more: US troops increase as local hero says no – Afghanistan’s Malalai Joya
“The US and Canada cannot gift us democracy.”
Written by TrentArthur.ca Monday, 30 November 2009 02:31
Malalai Joya speaks to Canadians on her cross-country tour
By Iftekhar Kabir, TrentArthur.ca, 30 November 2009
In a recent article for In These Times, Noam Chomsky spoke of her as one of the “truly worthy choices” for the Nobel Peace Prize. At age thirty-one, suspended Afghan MP, Malalai Joya, already has more than a decade of experience resisting oppression and injustice. From her teen years spent in refugee camps, she has been working towards grass roots social development by helping provide education and health care to war-torn people. For her years of work she has recently been dubbed, “the bravest woman in Afghanistan.” I heard her speak on November 18 at the Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre in Toronto.
ملالی جویا؛ 'زنی در میان جنگسالاران'
Written by بی بی سی فارسی Thursday, 26 November 2009 23:01
در غرب، صدای خانم جویا را به دلیل انتقاد از جنگسالاران در افغانستان، صدای مردم این کشور می دانند
بی بی سی فارسی، ۲۶ نوامبر ۲۰۰۹
خانم جویا به انتقاد از جنگسالاران در افغانستان شهرت دارد
ملالی جویا، از چهره های بحث برانگیز در افغانستان که با انتقاد از فرماندهان سابق این کشور در لویه جرگه قانون اساسی در سال ۲۰۰۳ به شهرت جهانی رسید، به تازگی در مورد زندگی خود در افغانستان کتاب نوشته است.
خانم جویا می گوید هدف از نوشتن این کتاب زیر عنوان "زنی در میان جنگسالاران"، نشان دادن سیمای سیاسی و نظامی افغانستان به کشورهای غربی است.
خانم جویا می گوید در این کتاب با حضور نیروهای آمریکایی و ناتو در افغانستان به شدت مخالفت کرده و افغانستان را یک کشور اشغال شده دانسته است.
او می گوید: "ما تاریخ پر افتخاری داریم که هرگز اشغال را قبول نمی کند. باور دارم که مردم رنج کشیده ام در آینده نیز بر ضد اشغال می ایستند و درس خوبی به اشغالگرانی چون آمریکا و ناتو خواهند داد؛ چنانچه در گذشته به انگلیس و روسها داده بودند."
Colvin's testimony true: former Afghan MP
Written by CBC News Thursday, 26 November 2009 01:22
Joya: "Democracy will never come by war..."
CBC News, November 26, 2009
Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin's claim that detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were likely tortured is true and an "open secret" in her country, a former Afghan MP said in Ottawa on Thursday.
Colvin, who was posted in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2007, gave explosive testimony last week before a Commons' committee, alleging that all prisoners handed over by Canadian soldiers to Afghan authorities were likely subsequently abused and that government officials were well aware of the problem.
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- Afghan women's leader Joya brings anti-war message to Vancouver
- Ex-Afghan MP to speak in Victoria believes 'occupation' is no answer
- Afghan's 'Bravest Woman' Calls on U.S. to Leave
- Suspended Afghan MP Malalai Joya wants NATO's mission to end
- Afghan politician visits West to call for withdrawal of troops
- Malalai Joya a 'worthy choice' for Nobel
- INTERVIEW MALALAI JOYA: Why the U.S. has to go
- Afghanistan's Malalai Joya speaks in So Cal
- War, Peace and Obama’s Nobel
- Afghan author speaks to members of Mercy HS community, Girl Scouts, Junior League
- Outspoken Afghan challenges leaders
- Opium, Rape and the American Way
- A Woman among War Mongerers: Reflections on Tuesday’s Panel
- Former Afghan MP paints bleak picture
- Vocal Afghani war critic in Boston
- The Murderous Thugs We are Supporting in Afghanistan--and Why a Heroine Wants Us Out
- Resolution regarding Malalai Joya adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 185th session
- ملالی جویا، همیشه مبارز، همیشه افتخار آفرین
- ملالی جویا زنی که خاموش نخواهد شد
- ملالی جویا: نباید فریب این نمایش دموکراتیک را خورد - مردم مورد خیانت قرار گرفته اند
- حقایق ملالی جویا
- ملالی جويا و تهديد فزاينده جهاد فروشان!
- The new feminism: life and death
- ملالى جويا خواستار محاکمه جنايتکاران بمباردمان فراه شد
- معذرت بخاطر اشغال
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