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15-05-2000, 01:15 AM
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
> > > >misbehavior.
> > > >
> > > >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, who cannot find proper medication and
> > > >treatment for
> > > >severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such
> > > >conditions, has increased significantly.
> > > >
> > > >There are almost no medical facilities available for 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 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, 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
> > > >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 1999 to be treated as subhuman
> > > >and so much as
> > > >property. Equality and human decency is a RIGHT not a freedom,
> > > >whether one
> > > >lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
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> > > >
> > > >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
> > > >misbehavior.
> > > >
> > > >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, who cannot find proper medication and
> > > >treatment for
> > > >severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such
> > > >conditions, has increased significantly.
> > > >
> > > >There are almost no medical facilities available for 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 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, 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
> > > >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 1999 to be treated as subhuman
> > > >and so much as
> > > >property. Equality and human decency is a RIGHT not a freedom,
> > > >whether one
> > > >lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
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وش رايكم ؟؟