http://www.rawa.org/events/mar8-2008_e.htm
Afghan women are one of the important topics today for media and the world become aware of the elements that suffers them. After the collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, many nongovernmental organizations around the world have been trying raise awareness. Especially after the US- led war in Afghanistan, women activist found opportunity to go to that country to work and let Afghan women to speak for them and decide for their future.
Despite many cultural and religious challenges, meaningful strides have been made in past few years. Much organization focused on Women’s lives in Afghanistan while Afghan women suffer even more immigrants to other countries. it is very important and urgent need to create a greater awareness and understanding of the lives of Afghan women as immigrant in US and other parts of the world. They are facing many challenges as they struggle to adapting the new society, for example, one of these challenges could be adapting to the freedoms and equal rights that other women have. Afghan women, who lived in a completely different part of the world in an ignorance and silence life, would be absolutely lost coming to the United States.
Most of these women cannot read and write their native language. New language, new environment, and culture shock cause them to lose balance in life. They then lose their ways and lose completely the little self-esteem they had before. Organizations such as RAWA and Women for Afghan Women are needed to help these women change and adapt into the new culture, as well as keeping their own values and culture. Finding jobs and becoming financially secure is another problem these women would struggle with, because in order to settle in a country, women has to be able to finds ways and not be depending upon family and society where they even do not know the language.
