Cinema for Peace Award
February 11, 2008, Malalai Joya and the documentary “Enemies of Happiness” was honored with the “International Human Rights Film Award” by Amnesty International, Cinema for Peace and Human Rights Film…
Reinstatement of outspoken woman MP urged
Pajhwok Afghan News, November 29, 2007 “Ms. Joya has been an outspoken critic of the heavy presence of warlords and other anti-democratic forces in the Afghan parliament” Malalai Joya speaks…
Canada’s combat role criticized
Markus Ermisch, Kamloops This Week, November 10, 2007 But suspended MP from Afghanistan doesn’t want Canucks to leave Malalai Joya’s reputation as an uncompromising, relentless critic of Afghanistan’s parliament and…
TRU gets a chance to see history in the flesh
Dale Bass, Kamloops This Week, November 9, 2007 She has been called the bravest woman in Afghanistan — and she is just that. Malalai Joya speaks at Dalhousie University (Daily…
Meet Afghanistan’s ‘bravest woman’
RACHEL MENDLESON, The Daily News, November 9, 2007 “I’m from a land of tragedy called Afghanistan,” said Malalai Joya Malalai Joya speaks at Dalhousie University yesterday. (Daily News/Ryan Taplin) The…
“A ticking time bomb”
TOM GODFREY, SUN MEDIA, Toronto Sun, November 8, 2007 Ex-Afghan MP speaks out for women A controversial Afghan politician who survived four assassination attempts says women and children are the…
Afghan MP fights for women’s rights
Thursday, 08 November 2007 “Security is more important than food and water for our people,” Joya said By Blaine van der Griend, The Toronto Observer , November 8, 2007 Malalai…
Joya and freedom
Angela Day , The Coast, November 8, 2007 Malalai Joya, a former Afghanistan MP, has crossed the country to demand that Canadian troops leave Afghanistan. Tonight, she brings the message…
Warlords no better than Taliban, says Afghan MP
Michael Stittle, CTV.ca News, November 7, 2007 Taliban make use of the situation and become powerful. As Afghan police scrambled to the scene of a bomb blast Tuesday that killed…
Controversial Afghan parliamentarian visits Vancouver
Mike Howell, Vancouver Courier, November 7, 2007 Calls on Canada to ‘act independently’ and break from U.S. policy She is a politician who is prepared to die. As a member…