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Afghan American Youth Council (http://www.aayc.org/)
Afghan youth residing in the United States wanting to unite all Afghans and encourage them to work together to help people in Afghanistan.

Afghanan (http://www.afghanan.net/biographies/)
Afghanan websites list of Afghan biographies

Feminist Majority Foundation. The Taliban and Afghan Women
(http://www.feminist.org/afghan/facts.html)
Background information on the Taliban and women in Afghanistan.

Open Directory Project. Society: Religion and Spirituality: Islam (http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion%5Fand%5FSpirituality/Islam/Quran/)
Links to various aspects of Islam as practiced around the globe, as well as sites which contain the complete Arabic and English texts of the Koran.

RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (http://www.rawa.org/)
RAWA was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan.

U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices–2004: Afghanistan (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41737.htm)
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

U.S. Department of State. International Information Programs. Afghan Women (http://usinfo.state.gov/sa/rebuilding_afghanistan/afghan_women.html)
Links to information on women in Afghanistan.

WAPHA (http://www.wapha.org/)
Women’s Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan–a Washington, D.C.-based organization documenting the human rights abuses of women in Afghanistan. The Web site features information about the group and its mission, news reports and links to the Afghan online press, a photo gallery, and poems and art.

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