FW: [KARAT-Macedonia] Afganistan - petition

[Erzsebet Szabo]

FYI,
Szabó Erzzsébet
-----Original Message-----
From: Sanja Sarnavka [mailto:sanja.sarnavka at zg.tel.hr]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:46 PM
To: vday at equalitynow.org; pshifman at equalitynow.org; Milivoj Djilas; Maria
del Nevo; Mari Lindgren; Ĺsa Carlman; ksheekey at advocacy.org; Karen Gainer;
KARAT-Macedonia at egroups.com; Joel Mills; Iva; irena Terselic; IEC;
Gordana.Stojanovic at mail.inet.hr; Gordana Coric; Goga Golik;
gallammv at aol.com; Gabrielle Durocher-Radeka; eva.zillen at iktk.se; Erja- Liisa
petrova; dragan.kukavica at zg.tel.hr; Danica Eterovic; cesi; CENTAR ZA ZENE
ZRTVE RATA - Zagreb; CAS-HAD; Branislava Baranovic; Borislav Tsekov; Boriana
Jönsson; Bojana Genov; B.a.B.e.; Asta M. Zinbo; Arn Willems; anthony j.
dawe; anne dabb; Andrea Supih-Kvaternik; aidab at zamir.net; Jill Benderly
Subject: [KARAT-Macedonia] Afganistan - petition




     My Groups | KARAT-Macedonia Main Page | Start a new group!



Subject:        Human Rights Afganistan

Please sign this statement at the bottom to join our fight for
these woman!

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, so that
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, who cannot find proper
medication and treatment for severe repression and would rather
take their lives than live in such conditions, has increased
significantly.

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. There
are almost no medical facilities available for women, and relief
workers, in protest, have mostly left the country, taking medicine
and psychologists and other things necessary to treat the
sky-rocketing level of depression among women. 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.  One doctor
is considering, when what little medication that is left finally
runs out, leaving these women in front of the president's
residence as a form of peaceful protest. It is at the point where
the term human rights has become an understatement. 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, dress
generally as they wanted, and 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 sub-human in
the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not their
tradition or 'culture', but 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 support and
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 sub-human and so
much as property. Equality and human decency is a RIGHT not a
freedom, whether one lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.

1) Suzanne Dathe, Grenoble, France
2) Laurence COMPARAT, Grenoble,France
3) Philippe MOTTE, Grenoble, France4)
4) Jok FERRAND, Mont St Martin, France
5) Emmanuelle PGNOL, St Martin d'Heres, FRANCE
6) Marie GAUTHIER, Grenoble, FRANCE
7) Laurent VESCALO, Grenoble,FRANCE
 8) Mathieu MOY, St Egreve, FRANCE
 9) Bernard BLANCHET, Mont St Martin, FRANCE
 10) Tassadite FAVRIE, Grenoble, FRANCE
 11) Loic GODARD, St Ismier, FRANCE
 12) Benedicte PASCAL,Grenoble, FRANCE
 13) Khedaidja BENATIA, Grenoble, FRANCE
 14) Marie-Therese LLORET, Grenoble,FRANCE
 15) Benoit THEAU, Poitiers, FRANCE
 16) Bruno CONSTANTIN, Poitiers, FRANCE
 17) Christian COGNARD, Poitiers, FRANCE
 18) Robert GARDETTE, Paris, FRANCE
 19) Claude CHEVILLARD, Montpellier, FRANCE
 20) Gilles FREISS, Montpellier, FRANCE
 21) Patrick AUGEREAU, Montpellier, FRANCE.
 22) Jean IMBERT, Marseille, FRANCE
 23) Jean- Claude MURAT, Toulouse, France
 24) Anna BASSOLS, Barcelona, Spain
 25) Mireia DUNACH, Barcelona, Spain
 26) Michel VILLAZ, Grenoble, France
 27) Pages Frederique, Dijon, France
 28) Rodolphe FISCHMEISTER, Chatenay-Malabry, France
 29) Francois BOUTEAU, Paris, France
 30) Patrick PETER, Paris, France
 31) Lorenza RADICI, Paris, France
 32) Monika Siegenthaler, Bern, Switzerland
 33) Mark Philp, Glasgow, Scotland
 34) Tomas Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden
 35) Jonas Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
 36) Karin Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
 37) Ake Ljung, Stockholm, Sweden
 38) Carina Sedlmayer, Stockholm, Sweden
 39) Rebecca Uddman, Stockholm, Sweden
 40) Lena Skog, Stockholm, Sweden
 41) Micael Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
 42) Britt-Marie Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
 43) Birgitta Schuberth, Stockholm, Sweden
 44) Lena Dahl, Stockholm, Sweden
 45) Ebba Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
 46) Jessica Carlsson, Vaxjo, Sweden
 47) Sara Blomquist, Vaxjo, Sweden
 48) Magdalena Fosseus, Vaxjo, Sweden
 49) Charltta Langner, Goteborg, Sweden
 50) Andrea Egedal, Goteborg, Sweden
 51) Lena Persson, Stockholm, Sweden
 52) Magnus Linder, Umea ,Sweden
 53) Petra Olofsson, Umea, Sweden
 54) Caroline Evenbom, Vaxjo, Sweden
 55) Asa Pettersson, Grimsas, Sweden
 56) Jessica Bjork, Grimsas, Sweden
 57) Linda Ahlbom Goteborg, Sweden
 58) Jenny Forsman, Boras, Sweden
 59) Nina Gunnarson, Kinna, Sweden
 60) Andrew Harrison, New Zealand
 61) Bryre Murphy, New Zealand
 62) Claire Lugton, New Zealand
 63) Sarah Thornton, New Zealand
 64) Rachel Eade, New Zealand
 65) Magnus Hjert, London, UK
 67) Madeleine Stamvik, Hurley, UK
 68) Susanne Nowlan, Vermont, USA
 69) Lotta Svenby, Malmoe, Sweden
 70) Adina Giselsson, Malmoe, Sweden
 71) Anders Kullman, Stockholm, Sweden
 72) Rebecka Swane, Stockholm,Sweden
 73) Jens Venge, Stockholm, Sweden
 74) Catharina Ekdahl, Stockholm, Sweden
 75) Nina Fylkegard, Stockholm, Sweden
 76) Therese Stedman, Malmoe,Sweden
 77) Jannica Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
 78) Douglas Bratt
 79) Mats Lofstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
 80) Li Lindstrom, Sweden
 81) Ursula Mueller, Sweden
 82) Marianne Komstadius, Stockholm, Sweden
 83) Peter Thyselius, Stockholm, Sweden
 84) Gonzalo Oviedo, Quito, Ecuador
 85) Amalia Romeo, Gland, Switzerland
 86)Margarita Restrepo, Gland, Switzerland
 87) Eliane Ruster, Crans p.C.,Switzerland
 88) Jennifer Bischoff-Elder, Hong Kong
 89)Azita Lashgari, Beirut, Lebanon
 90)Khashayar Ostovany, New York, USA
 91)Lisa L Miller, Reno NV
 92)Danielle Avazian, Los Angeles, CA
 93) Sara Risher, Los Angeles, Ca.
 94) Melanie London, New York, NY
 95) Susan Brownstein , Los Angeles, CA
 96) Steven Raspa, San Francisco, CA
 97) Margot Duane, Ross, CA
 98) Natasha Darnall, Los Angeles, CA
 99) Candace Brower, Evanston, IL
 100) James Kjelland, Evanston, IL
 101) Michael Jampole, Beach Park, IL, USA
 102) Diane Willis, Wilmette, IL, USA
 103) Sharri Russell, Roanoke,VA, USA
 104) Faye Cooley, Roanoke, VA, USA
 105) CelesteThompson, Round Rock, TX, USA
 106) Sherry Stang, Pflugerville, TX,USA
 107) Amy J. Singer, Pflugerville, TX USA
 108) Milissa Bowen, Austin, TX USA
 109) Michelle Jozwiak, Brenham, TX USA
 110) Mary Orsted, College Station, TX USA
 111) Janet Gardner, Dallas, TX USA
 112) Marilyn Hollingsworth, Dallas, TX USA
 113) Nancy Shamblin, Garland. TX USA
 114) K. M. Mullen, Houston, TX - USA
 115) Noreen Tolman, Houston, Texas - USA
 116) Judy Bechtel, Merced, CA - USA
 117) Delores Iliff, FL, USA
 118) Nicole Propper, FL, USA
 119) Bonnie LaChance, FL, USA
 120) JoAnn Blades, FL, USA
 121) Pam Blades, FL, USA
 122) Louise Campbell,FL, USA
 123) Marcy DeSanto, FL, USA
 124) Donald Blades, FL,USA
 125) Tom LaChance, FL, USA
 126) Craig Huff, GA, USA
 127) Karen Huff, FL, USA
 128) Paul Jarrel, Wadsworth, OH - USA
 129)Ian Austin , TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
 130) Germaine Maxwell, POS, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
 131) Phyllis Serrao, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
 132) Max Serrao, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
 133) Lynn Waldron. TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
 134) Carole Carmichael, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
 135) Denise Clarke, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
 136) Lisa Boisson, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
 137)Yvonne Roberts-White, TRINIDAD &TOBAGO
 138) Elizabeth Chin Aleong, British Virgin Islands
 139) Joy Ramlogan, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
 140) Eriko Togo, DC, USA141) Luca F. Mezzomo, ITALY
 142) Luigi Ruggerone, ITALY143) Gabriele Parenti, ITALY
 144) Alessandro Delia-Russell, ITALY
 145) Cristiana Vitale, ITALY
 146) Cristina Davies, Egypt
 147) Noha Bawazir, Lebanon
 148) Carlos Milani, France
 149) Andrea Moraes, Brasil
 150) Luiz Eduardo Braga, Brasil
 151) Debbie Andree, AZ USA
 152) Klemens Arnarson, Iceland
 153) Eva Ros Johannsdottir, Iceland
 154) Helga Benediktsdottir, Iceland
 155) Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Iceland
 156) Arnar Geirsson, Iceland
 157) Tryggvi Helgason, Iceland
 158) Samuel J. Samuelsson, Iceland
 159) Sigurbjorn Sveinsson, Iceland
 160) Gunnar M. Sandholt, Iceland
 161) Gudmundur Einarsson, Iceland161) Logi Jonsson,Iceland
 162) Gudrun petursdottir, Iceland163) Andre Joyal, Quebec
 164) Robert David, Quebec, Canada
 165) 165) Olga Gladkikh, Antigonish, Canada
 166) Suzanne Huett, Halifax, Canada
 167) Heather Myers, Antigonish,Canada
 168) Chris Storseth, Antigonish, Canada
 169) Peter Shuley, Vancouver, Canada
 170) Sheila Shuley, Vancouver, Canada
 171) Gordon Whitehead, Ottawa, Canada
 172) Gloria Whitehead, Ottawa, Canada
 173) Anne Haack, Adelaide, South Australia
 174) Bil Haack, Adelaide, South Australia
 175) Glenn Patrick, Sooke, Canada
 176) Jacquie Patrick, Sooke, Canada
 177) Randy Patrick, Lethbridge, Canada
 178) Launa Patrick, Lethbridge, Canada
 179) John McGrath, Pakenham, ON, Canada
 180) Duane Starcher, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
 181) Barbara Yates, Mount Lehman, B.C. Canada
 182) Shirley Daventry French, Victoria, B.C. Canada
 183) Maggi Feehan, Victoria, B.C. Canada
 184) Terrance Berscheid, Saanich, BC, Canada
 185) Suzanne Wilkinson, Duncan, BC, Canada
 186) Lynda Moir, Duncan, BC, Canada
 187) Evelyn Battell, Duncan, BC, Canada
 188) Mickey Lee, Saltspring Is.,B.C., Canada
 189) Jackie Bennett, Salspring Is. B.C., Canada
 190) Sinikka Elliott, Austin, TX, USA
 191)Lorraine Elliott, Austin, TX, USA
 192) Patrick Verrill, Austin, TX, USA
 193) Robert Elliott, Eugene, OR, USA
 194) Jennifer Seel, Eugene, OR, USA
 195) Jason Leavitt, Eugene, OR, USA
 196) Walter Bryant, Eugene, OR, USA
 197) Ruth Fischer, Eugene, OR, USA
 198) Ben Lepp, Stockton, CA, USA
 199) Tara Berringer, Eugene, OR, USA
 200) Rachelle Kula, Anchorage, Alaska
 201) Teri Jo Hasbrouck, petersburg, ak, usa
 202) Jodie Totten, Alaska, USA
 203) KristyTotten, Alaska, USA
 204)Halie Smith, Eugene, OR
 205)AMORIS WALKER, CORVALLIS OREGON
 206)Brooke Simonds, Hawaii
 207) Nicole Schindler, Hawaii
 208) Chesa Cipro,Maui, Hawaii
 209) Alexis Ross, Redwood City, CA
 210) Mia Frank, Eugene, OR
 211) Kristin Schaller, Wheaton, IL
 212) Lauren Davis, Spokane,WA, USA
 213) Mary Ann Rohrer, Shoreline, WA, USA
 215) Josina Boswell, Tokyo, Japan
 216) Cecile Normand
 217) Georgina Houghton, Australia
 218) Donna Russo, Australia
 219) Jan Elliott, Sydney, Australia
 220) Reg Elliott, Sydney, Australia
 221) Maureen Dibden, Wollongong, Australia
 222) Mark Rix, Wollongong, Australia
 223) Sam Garrett-Jones, Thirroul, Australia
 224) Lesley Garrett-Jones, Thirroul, Australia
 225) Lyn Grigg, Brisbane, Australia
 226) Matthew Grigg, Brisbane, Australia
 227) Dominique Grigg, Brisbane, Australia
 228) Elizabeth Blackford, Brisbane, Australia
 229) Kerrie Burmeister, Perth, Australia
 230) Rachele Sheard, Perth, Australia
 231) Amanda Cooke, Brisbane, Australia
 232) Emma Reilly, Brisbane, Australia
 233) Phil Ryan, Brisbane, Australia
 234) Cath Barker, Brisbane, Australia
 235) Bronwyn Sullivan, Burleigh, Australia
 236) James Sullivan, Burleigh, Australia
 237) Rod Welford, Brisbane, Australia
 238) Peter See, Sunshine Coast, Australia
 239) Ross Annels, Sunshine Coast, AustraliaP
 240) Tamsin Kerr, Sunshine Coast, Australia
 241) Matthew Phillipps, Canberra, Australia
 242) Bronte Best, Brisbane, Australia
 243) Sean Marler, Nathan, Australia
 244)Deb Jones, Ashmore, Australia
 245) Adam Leggo Boronia , Australia
 247) Helen Nanscawen, Montmorency ,Australia
 248) Peter Nanscawen, Montmorency ,Australia
 249) Sheridan Nanscawen, Macleod ,Australia
 250) Kylie Epskamp, Trafalgar, Australia
 251) Richard Epskamp, Trafalgar, Australia
 252) Anita Llloyd, Darnum, Australia
 253) Glenn Lloyd, Darnum, Australia
 254) Ted Dam, Dandenong,Australia
 255) Emma Dam,Dandenong, Australia
 256) Jenny Dam, Boronia, Australia
 257) Donna Watson, Bayswater, Australia
 258) Caroline Healy, Wantirna, Australia
 259) LORRAINE O'KEEFFE. CROYDON HILLS . AUSTRALIA
 260) Julie Curran, Broadmeadows, AUSTRALIA
 261) Sue Redfearn, Brunswick, AUSTRALIA
 262) Kerryn Toogood, Elwood, Australia
 263) Kylie Toogood, Manly, NSW, Australia
 264) Ann Student, Balwyn, VIC, Australia
 265) Rosslyn Faulkner, Patterson Lakes, VIC, Australia
 266) Scott Robinson, North Curl Curl, NSW, Australia
 267) Kelley Staples, TX, USA
 268) Lynn Houston, Atlanta, GA, USA
 269) Kembree Darakshani, Knoxville, TN USA
 270)    Megan Glassburn, Boulder, CO USA
 271)  Christy Edge, Atlanta, GA, USA
 272)   Claire E. Moncrief, New York NY USA
 273) Jennifer Lauderback, Knoxville, TN, USA
 274) Rebecca James, Durango, CO, USA
 275) Monique Jong, Seattle, WA, USA
 276) Maureen Chin, Aruba
 277) Sofie Slegers, Aruba
 278) Mark Slegers, The Netherlands
 279) Loes Jansen, Belgium
 280) Guy van Rijn, Belgium
 281) Kate Ezra, IL, USA
 282) Daniel Headrick, USA
 283) Peter H. Hoffenberg, Honolulu, HI, USA
 284) Tia Ballantine, Honolulu, HI, USA
> 285) Uri Ruiz-Bikandi, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country
286) Miguel Argibay, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country
287) Maite Garmendia, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain
288) Karel Van Rompaey, Bunsbeek, Belgium
289) Geert Claeys, Brugge, Belgium
290) Hans Redee, Torhout, Belgium
291) Peter Verhelst, Nazareth, Belgium
300)Greet Ramael, Gent, Belgium
301)katrien Bruyneel, Ghent, Belgium
302) Tijs Visser, Belgium
303) Emil Hrvatin, Slovenia
304) Aldo Milohnic, Ljubljana, Slovenia
305) Suzana Tratnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia
306) Bojana Skrt, Ljubljana, Slovenia
307) Sanja Sarnavka, Croatia

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 400 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.





To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
KARAT-Macedonia-unsubscribe at egroups.com