Malalai Joya MP: "the most famous woman in Afghanistan" (BBC)
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 5:45 pm
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Malalai Joya is also director of the non-governmental group, Organisation of Promoting Afghan Women's Capabilities (OPAWC) in the Western Afghanistan provinces of Herat and Farah. Full Image (46.77K)
Malalai Joya is described by the BBC as the most famous woman in Afghanistan and at 28 years of age is the youngest member of the Afghani Parliament. Joya is a controversial figure, reviled by many Afghani fundamentalists yet viewed by others as a freedom fighter and heroine in contemporary Afghanistan.
She has made her name as a women's rights activist who has attacked Afghanistan's most powerful groupings, the Mujahideen which won their reputation by defeating the Soviet armed occupation.
