MeenaAfghanistan 
Meena was born on February 27, 1956 in Kabul. She left university to become a social activist devoted to organizing and educating women. In pursuit of freedom of expression and the right to conduct political activities, she laid the foundations of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in 1977. She intended this organization to give a voice to the deprived and silenced women of Afghanistan. She started a campaign against the Russian forces of occupation and their puppet regime in 1979 and organized numerous demonstrations and meetings in schools, colleges and Kabul University to mobilize public opinion. She launched a bilingual magazine, Payam-e-Zan (Women's Message) in 1981. Through this magazine, RAWA boldly and effectively promotes the cause of Afghan women. Meena also established a hospital, Watan Schools for refugee children and handicraft centers for refugee women in Pakistan to provide financial support for Afghan women. At the end of 1981, she represented the Afghan resistance movement at the French Socialist Party Congress, at the invitation of the French Government. She visited several other European countries and met prominent people there. Her active social work and effective advocacy against the views of the fundamentalists and the puppet regime provoked the wrath of the Russians and the fundamentalist forces alike and she was assassinated in Quetta, Pakistan, on February 4,1987.
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