Just a quick note on Lisa's response. As a Pakistani activist working with NGO's across the country, I have seen what happens when aid becomes tied to certain conditions: isn't that what happened in Afghanistan? So while in principle it sounds fine, in practice it further squeezes the space activists can work in. Further i) development aid gets cut across the board ii) women and children suffer more because of lack of resources iii) rising poverty and economic stagnation in the country means that resources are diverted away from the 'soft' sectors..health & education, and the extremists are provided with 'fodder' for their propaganda.
So please do not advocate tying resources to improving human rights. This is a myth. What works is an enabling environment in a country which allows people to go beyond the daily struggle for survival, seek education, etc. And please do not call murder 'honor killings'....it is a misnomer and its time we started calling it by its real name. Yasmin On 23 May 2002, Lisa Sharlach wrote: > >Pressure our representatives to tie the huge amounts of aid we are now giving >Pakistan (to thank them for helping in the "war on terrorism") with >improvements in women's human rights. Our government routinely "ties" aid to >liberalization of the recipient country's economy, democratization, greater >transparency, etc. Why not human rights of women? > ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
