She speaks of injustices in her war torn countries, and wants USA to remove all their troops in Afghanistan.

Levitated One, April 5, 2012

Malalai Joya – An Afghan activist speaking in University of Melbourne, Australia on April 5, 2012. She survived an assassination attempt just days before entering Australia, which left multiple of her body guards killed and injured.

Malalai Joya reasoning about why wearing burqa

Eleanor Hall, ABC, April 5, 2012

ELEANOR HALL: In 2010, Time magazine called her one of the world's 100 most influential people and Foreign Policy magazine listed her among its Top Global Thinkers.

But to many she is simply "the bravest woman in Afghanistan".

Author and human rights campaigner Malalai Joya has been one of the fiercest critics of the Afghan government and the foreign occupation of her country and the latest attempt on her life was just last month.

In 2005 she become the youngest person to be elected to the new Afghan parliament but she was dismissed two years later for continuing to criticise the warlords and drug barons she accuses of destroying her country.

Over the past few years PEN Melbourne has organised events in collaboration with WISA (Women’s International Solidarity Australia) in support of Malalai Joya.

Melbourne Pen, April 3, 2012

WISA fundraising dinner with special guest Malalai Joya

Women’s International Solidarity Australia (WISA) welcomes back Malalai Joya for dinner and a discussion to launch WISA’s 2012 Featured Events Series.

Kicking off the series is human rights activist and former Afghan MP Malalai Joya was a featured guest at WISA’s 2010 launch and we welcome her back again in this fundraising dinner. All funds raised will help Joya to continue in her work for human rights and gender justice in Afghanistan.

Sydney Stop the War Coalition is proud to host Malalai Joya at a meeting organised in a question and answer format

Stop the War Coalition, March 29, 2012

The murderous rampage by a US army sergeant in Afghanistan on March 11, killing 16 civilians (mainly women and children) signifies the death throes of the US occupation.

Whether mental illness can be blamed or not, army veterans only act like this when they have lost all confidence in their command and regard the military mission as hopeless.

Malalai Joya, a former MP, recently survived the sixth attempt on her life.

Green Left Weekly, March 25, 2012

Malalai Joya, a former MP and one of Afghanistan’s best-known democratic leaders, recently survived the sixth attempt on her life. Taliban gunmen attacked her office at 3 am on March 10, wounding two of her guards. In an exclusive interview, she told Green Left Weekly’s Pip Hinman that “such terrorist acts will never stop my fight for freedom, democracy and justice”.

Joya will visit Australia in April to speak at the Marxism 2012 conference in Melbourne and a Stop the War Coalition public meeting in Sydney on April 11. Read more of Green Left's coverage of the Afghan war.

For me, she is the bravest, strongest and most daring woman we have today

Ahura Parwani, Fighting for a Change blog, March 26, 2012

"Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth." -Socrates

The reason I quoted Socrates is because he is one of the many people who pursued the truth and died because of the truth. He was known as the "gladfly" (as the gadfly stings the horse into action, so Socrates stung various Athenians) of Athens. He irritated many people with considerations of justice and pursuit of goodness. So much, that he was asked to stop. He chose to end his life by drinking poison. And many of our Afghan Women Activists' and Journalists' have had similar stories. For example, Meena (founder of RAWA) was murdered by Gulbuddin's people, Zakia Zaki (Afghan journalist who was assasinated in front of her child), Sitara Achakzai (who returned to Afghanistan to try to improve Women's situations was shot by the Taliban), Safia Ahmed-Jan (she was a provincial director of the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kandahar province), Malalai Joya and many others. It is a sad reality that even after ten years of war, that country is not a safe place for women. There is no freedom of speech. No democracy. No re-construction. Afghanistan is still at its worst state and will remain there until we have a stable government and a REAL president.

عروس‌های تریاک، به جای خودکشی قیام می‌کنند

برگردان: اکبر فلاح‌زاده،رادیو زمانه، ٠١/٠٤/١٣٩١

اکبر فلاح‌زاده ـ ملالی جویا، زن شجاع افغان را همه می‌شناسیم. او همیشه و همه‌جا بسیار پرشور ظاهر می‌شود و توجه همه را به خود جلب می‌کند.

مخالفانش به همین دلیل بر او خرده می‌گیرند و استهزایش می‌کنند، اما دوستان و هوادارانش او را تحسین می‌کنند. خانم ملالی بی‌باکانه حرف می‌زند. برای درک رفتار و گفتار متهورانه او نخست باید وضع رقت‌بار زنان در افغانستان را به خوبی شناخت. چندی پیش شبکه چهار تلویزیون انگلیس گزارش تکان‌دهنده‌ای از زندگی یک خانواده افغان نشان داد: یک زن جوان که مادر یک بچه خردسال بود، تحت فشار شوهرش تن‌فروشی می‌کرد تا خرج خانواده‌اش را در آورد.

The LEFT condemns assassination attack on women's rights activist Malalai Joya in Afghanistan

Die Linke, March 12, 2012

Malalai Joya with Monika Knoche and Heike Hänsel at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

"The LEFT condemns the criminal assassination attack on the internationally renown women's rights activist and prominent critic of the ISAS troops, Malalai Joya. For years I have been responsible for her in the parliamentarian protection program in the German Bundestag, several times Joya has visited the Bundestag for political talks", says Heike Hänsel, spokes woman for economic cooperation and development politics in the LEFT Party parliamentary group. This violent attack on her office was the sixth attempt to kill Joya, two of her guards were seriously injured.

د ملالۍ جویا په وینا دا لومړې ځل نه دې، بلکه تر دې مخکې دا څو څو ګواښل شوې او د حملې هڅه ورباندې شوې.

ذکیه غیاثی نذیر، آزادی رادیو، د ١٣٩٠ کال د کب ٢١مه

د ولسي جرګې پخوانۍ غړی ملالۍ جویا وایي، چې دا د ښځو د ملاتړ او بشري حقونو لپاره مبارزه کوي او په دې برید کې هم یو شمېر داسې کسان لاس لري، چې له دې ارزښتونو سره مخالف دي.

د ولسي جرګې پخوانۍ غړی ملالۍ جویا وایي، چې دا د ښځو د ملاتړ او بشري حقونو لپاره مبارزه کوي او په دې برید کې هم یو شمېر داسې کسان لاس لري، چې له دې ارزښتونو سره مخالف دي.

د ولسي جرګې پخوانۍ غړې ملالۍ جویا که څه هم په فراه کې د دې پر دفتر د شوې حملې په اړه شواهد نه لري، خو شک څرګندوي، چې په دې اړه د وسله والو مخالفینو ترڅنګ هغه کسان هم ښکیل دي، چې په دولت کې پراخ نفوذ لري.

خانم جویا می گوید که در این حادثه دو محافظش زخم شدید برداشته اند.

رادیو آزادی، ٢١ حوت ١٣٩٠

گزارش صوتی «رادیو آزادی»:

یک عضو پیشین ولسی جرگه افغانستان می گوید، که حمله مسلحانه بر دفتر کارش و سوی قصد بر جانش در ولایت فراه جلو فعالیت های وی را گرفته نمی تواند.

خانم جویا می گوید که در این حادثه دو محافظش زخم شدید برداشته اند. ملالی جویا یک عضو پیشین ولسی جرگه افغانستان، حلقات مختلف را در حمله و سوءقصد به جانش دخیل می داند.

خانم جویا به روز یکشنبه در یک نشست خبری در کابل گفت، که تا اکنون طراحان اصلی و مسوولان این حمله شناسایی نشده اند. ملالی جویا می گوید، وی شک دارد که در این حمله بر علاوه مخالفان مسلح، کسانی که در دستگاه حکومت نفوذ دارند هم دخیل اند:

Gunmen attack office of Afghan women’s rights activist in apparent assassination attempt

The Washington Post, March 11, 2012

By Associated Press — A prominent Afghan women’s rights activist says gunmen have attacked her office in a western province in an apparent assassination attempt.

Malalai Joya is a former Afghan lawmaker and vocal critic of corruption and criminality in the Afghan government, as well as the Taliban. She says the overnight attack on her office in Farah province was the sixth attempt on her life.

به گفته وی، کشوری که در آن پایگاه نظامی یک کشور خارجی وجود داشته باشد، استقلال ندارد.

خبرگزاری جمهور، ۲۱ حوت ۱۳۹۰

کرزی با دعوت به بله گویان خود در برابر دالر و قدرت و دایر نمودن جرگه فرمایشی می خواهد که مساله فروش افغانستان و این سند ننگینی را که امضا می کند بر دوش مردم بیچاره افغانستان بیندازد.

ملالی جویا،نماینده پیشین پارلمان امروز یکشنبه طی یک کنفرانس خبری با بیان این مطلب افزود که آقای کرزی می خواهد در پیمان استراتژیک بین افغانستان و آمریکا مردم افغانستان را نیز شریک جرم خود بسازد؛ ولی مردم افغانستان علاوه بر اینکه این پیمان را محکوم می کنند، از نظر مردم افغانستان این پیمان مانند معاهده های ننگین گندمک و غیره یک “خیانت ملی” است.

افراد مسلح ناشناس به تاریخ شب 20 حوت مکانی را که قرار بود خانم جویا در آن اقامت گزیند، در ناحیه اول مرکز فراه، مورد حمله قرار دادند.

سلام وطندار، ١١ مارچ ٢٠١٢

افراد مسلح ناشناس به تاریخ شب 20 حوت مکانی را که قرار بود خانم جویا در آن اقامت گزیند، در ناحیه اول مرکز فراه، مورد حمله قرار دادند.

ملالی "جویا" عضو اسبق ولسی جرگه ، در کنفرانس مطبوعاتی امروز در کابل، گفت: در این رویداد دو تن از محافظینش که قبلا در مکان یاد شده حضور یافته بودند، زخمی شدند.

خانم جویا می گوید که در این حادثه دو محافظش زخم شدید برداشته اند.

تلویزیون آشنا،١١ مارچ ٢٠١٢ (٢١ حوت ١٣٩٠)

تلویزیون آشنا (دری)

According to Joya, many of those in power in Afghanistan today should more rightly be tried for war crimes.

Karenlee Thompson, Karenlee Thompson blog, January 8, 2012

Normally I like to review fiction; short stories and novels, with a predilection for anything Australian. So it is an extreme departure for me to feel impelled to review Raising my Voice by Malalai Joya (co-written by Derrick O’Keefe*). Subtitled, the extraordinary story of the Afghan woman who dares to speak out, it is a book not easily forgotten once read and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the history of Afghanistan but, more particularly, those who seek answers about Australia’s military involvement in the country.

In the introduction, Joya (a pseudonym adopted to protect her family) writes that most Afghans her age and younger “have known only bloodshed, displacement and occupation”, a situation that doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon given the current “foreign occupation and an American-backed government filled with warlords who are just like the Taliban” (1).