Fw: Afghanistan Petition
Petes Beáta
bpetes at MGX.HU
2000. Nov. 15., Sze, 11:26:23 CET
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Feladó: Meszaros Gyorgyi <Gyorgyi.Meszaros at MEH.HU>
Címzett: 'petes bea' <bpetes at mail.mgx.hu>
Dátum: 2000.november.15. 9:38
Tárgy: Afghanistan Petition
>> Women's Rights
>> Madhu, the government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon women. If
you
>> decide not to forward this, please send it to
>> sarabande at brandeis.edu
>> This is an actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost if you drop
the
>> line.
>>
>> Dear Friends:
>> Please do not ignore this email. This is something that we as women and
>> essentially as human beings need to support - I don't know if this is
>going
>> to help but take 3 minutes out of your life to do your part. >
>> Madhu, the government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon women. Since
>> the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and have
>> been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even
>> if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes.
>> One woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for
>> accidentally exposing her arm (!) while she was driving. Another
>> was stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was
>> not
>> a relative. Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public
without
>> a male relative;professional women such as professors, translators,
>> doctors, lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs
and
>> stuffed
>> into their homes. Homes where a woman is present must have their windows
>> painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear
silent
>> shoes so that they are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives
>for
>> the slightest misbehaviour. Because they cannot work, those without male
>> relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging on the
>> street, even if they hold Ph.D.s. Depression is becoming so widespread
>that
>> it
>> has
>> reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic
>> society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workers are
>> estimating that the suicide rate among women must be extraordinarily
high:
>> those
>> who
>> cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and
>would
>> rather take their lives than live in such conditions. At one of the rare
>> hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies
>> lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling
>> to speak, eat, or do anything, but slowly wasting away. Others have gone
>> mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying,
most
>> of them in fear. When what little medication that is left finally runs
>> out,
>> one doctor is considering leaving these women in front of the president's
>> residence as a form of protest.
>> It is at the point where the term "human rights violations" has become an
>> understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their
women
>> relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much
right
>> to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh
>> or
>> offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative freedom: to
>> work,to dress generally as they wanted, and to drive and appear in
public
>> alone until only 1996. The rapidity of this transition is the main
reason
>> for the depression and suicide; women who were once educators or
>> doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely
>> restricted
>> and treated as subhuman in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam.
It
>> is not their tradition or 'culture,' but it is alien to them, and it is
>> extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule.
>> Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are
>> women in a Muslim country. If we can threaten military force in Kosovo
in
>> the name of human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, citizens of
the
>> world can certainly express peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder
and
>> injustice committed against women by the Taliban.
>> >
>> STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of women
>> in Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves action by the
>United
>> Nations and that the current situation overseas will not be tolerated.
>> Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere, and it is UNACCEPTABLE for
>> women in 2000 to be treated as subhuman and as so much property.
>> Equality and human decency is a fundamental RIGHT, not a freedom to be
>> granted,whether one lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
>> >
>> > 1) Giuliana D. Black, Daly City, CA, USA
>> > 2) Mariam Nayiny, Palo Alto, CA, USA
>> > 3) Sunaina Gulati-Ruh, Palo Alto, CA USA
>> > 4) Megan McCaslin, Palo Alto, CA USA
>> > 5) Blake Hallanan, San Francisco, Ca. USA
>> > 6) Kit Henderson, Sacramento, CA USA
>> > 7) Kara Myers, San Francisco, CA
>> > 8) Ellen Tilden, San Fransisco, CA
>> > 9) Vanessa Ross, San Francisco, CA
>> > 10) Jenna Shaw- Battista, San Francisco, CA
>> > 11) Jeanne Racik, Berkeley, CA
>> > 12) Julie Silas, Oakland, CA
>> > 13) Renee Longstreet, Tarzana, CA
>> > 14) Susan Johnson, Encino, CA
>> > 15) Kenneth Johnson, Encino, CA
>> > 16) Terri Treas, Los Angeles, CA
>> > 17) Amy Retzinger, North Hollywood, CA
>> > 18) Babette Crooms, Los Angeles, CA
>> > 19) Olivia Kienzel; Santa Barbara, CA
>> > 20) Rebecca Longworth, New York, NY
>> > 21) Kelly J. Williams, Chester, VA
>> > 22) Audrey W. Bunch, Elizabeth City, NC
>> > 23) Frances G. Shannonhouse, Elizabeth City,
>> NC
>> > 24) Sharolyn M. Herring, Elizabeth City, NC
>> > 25) Michael W. Christol, Owensboro, Ky
>> > 26) Damon K. Christol, Louisville, Ky
>> > 27) Wendy D. Patton, Owensboro, Ky
>> > 28) Judy W. Christol, Owensboro, Ky
>> > 29) Onslow H. Wilson, Plainfield, IN
>> > 30) David and Allison Sahyoun, Magdalena, NM
>> > 31) Alana Wolfe, Santa Fe, NM
>> > 32) Kathryn Schomaker, Mt. Angel, OR
>> > 33) Ray Manna, Bay St. Louis, MS.
>> > 34) Sachi Kuiper, Santa Rosa, CA
>> > 35) Diane Angehrn, Santa Rosa, CA
>> > 36) Steven Wadas, Fair Oaks, CA
>> > 37) Teresa Gardiner, Fair Oaks, CA
>> > 38) Staci Boden, SF, CA
>> > 39) Alex Gologorsky, SF, CA
>> > 40) Mark Levitan, Bishop, CA
>> > 41) Pam Koonce, Bishop, CA
>> > 42) Joyce Levitan, St. Paul, MN
>> > 43) Len Levitan, St. Paul, MN
>> > 44) Donna Byrne, St. Paul, MN
>> > 45) Fran Stier, Swarthmore, PA
>> > 46) Rose Berstein, Pawtucket, RI
>> > 47) Wendy B.Schatzman, Brussels, Belgium
>> > 48) Eugenia Bas-Isaac, Tucson, Arizona
>> > 49) Wallace Kinkade, Angouleme, France
>> > 50) Nan McBriide, Scottsdale, Arizona
>> > 51) Carolyn Vagourdes, Hilton Head, SC
>> > 52) Sally Reinhold, Pittsburgh, PA
>> > 53) Sue Blair, Highlands, NC
>> > 54) Mary Morris Knepp, Sky Valley, GA
>> > 55) Kelly McCarthy, Santa Barbara, CA USA
>> > 56) Cherylan Hils, Moreno Valley, CA, USA
>> > 57) David Youngblood, Moreno Valley, CA
>> > 58) Daniel T. Benedict, Jr. Antioch TN, USA
>> > 59) Gayle C. Felton, Durham, NC
>> > 60) Robert J. Irvine, Durham, NC
>> > 61) Janet Thornton Irvine, Durham, NC
>> > 62) Beth M. Hassett-Sipple, Raleigh, NC
>> > 63) Holly Hassett, Harwinton, CT USA
>> > 64) Rev. J.Richard Fowler, Bristol, CT USA
>> > 65) Liz Winkler, Hartford, CT USA
>> > 66) Stacy Winkler, Storrs, CT USA
>> > 67) Brittany Andrews, Vernon, CT
>> > 68) Heidi Ballasy, Ellington, CT USA
>> > 69) Sarah Gerber, Tolland, CT USA
>> > 70) Marylynn, USA
>> > 71) Mala Matacin, Stafford Springs, CT, USA
>> > 72) Robin F. Chacon, New Britain, CT, USA
>> > 73) Bettina Viereck, Windsor, CT, USA
>> > 74) Arnulf Deppermann, Frankfurt/M, Germany
>> > 75) Bettina Kluge, Bielefeld, Germany
>> > 76) Gaby Otto, Hannover, Germany
>> > 77) Marlene Hartmann, Trier, Germany
>> > 88) Eva Maria Phieler, Trier, Germany
>> > 89) Sylvi Greenfield, Shropshire, UK
>> > 90) Ann Owen, Shropshire, UK
>> > 91) Jacqueline Blyth, UK
>> > 92) Robert Kressirer, RSA
>> > 93) Gottfried Marienfeld, RSA
>> > 94) Angelika Hutter, Tanzania
>> > 95) Hedwig Dingler, Bonn, Germany
>> > 96) Kai Seebörger
>> > 97) Raja Litwinoff, Mali
>> > 98) Uta Horn, Germany
>> > 99) Barbara Vérissimo, Germany
>> > 100) Karin Sanvee, Togo
>> > 101) Ulrich Bender, Togo
>> > 102) Sibylle Braune, Germany
>> > 103) Susanne Thieke, Germany
>> 104) Suvi Hein, Germany
>> 105)Anke Sinnigen, Germany
>> >106) Karoline Schacht, Germany
>> >107) Maja Buhmann, Germany
>> >108) Christiane Sattler, germany
>> 109) Christine Hoebermann, germany
>
>110) Andrea Finta CHAM, Malaysia
>111) Gyorgyi Meszaros, Hungary
112) Beata Petes, Hungary
>>
>>
>> PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message, sign the bottom and forward
it
>> to everyone on your distribution lists. If you receive this list with
more
>> than 300 names on it, please e-mail a copy of it to:
>>
>> > sarabande at brandeis.edu
>> >
>> Even if you decide not to sign, please be considerate and do not kill
the
>> petition. Thank you!
>>
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