I dear friend of mine sent this to me who is an advocate of human rights here
in the United States and world wide. She is an advocate for the homeless
here in Dallas where she, a friend run and occaisionally I right an article
for a newspaper that bring s the rights of the homeless to the forefront of
the public. and of course all monies go towards the same.
This petition may seem a little out of context but it touche dme as I've had
a number of friends who married men from the middle east and it can get
scarey.
Subj: WE ARE NOT FREE SO LONG AS THEY ARE NOT FREE...
Date: 11/3/99 6:44:26 PM Central Standard Time
Dear Friends,
I think this petition is very important. Please let me know if you do
not want such items to be sent your way.
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 prohibited to go out in public without a male
relative. Women are not allowed to work ; professional women such as
professors, translators, doctors, lawyers, artists and writers have been
forced from their jobs and stuffed into their homes. Depression is so
widespread that it has reached emergency levels. 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.
~ Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands
are either starving to death or begging on the street, even if they
holdPh.D.'s.
~ 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.
There are almost no medical facilities available for women, and most
relief workers have left the country in protest, taking medicine,
psychologists, and other necessities. 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 infear.
It is at the point where the term 'human rights violations' has
become an understatement. Men have the power of life and death over
their women relatives, especially in relation to 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 and others simply
accustomed 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 rather 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 to be treated as sub-human and so much as
property. Equality and human decency is a RIGHT not a freedom which
applies to humanity worldwide. 1) Suzanne Dathe, Grenoble, France
2) Laurence COMPARAT, Grenoble,France 3) Philippe MOTTE, Grenoble,
France
4) Jok FERRAND, Mont St Martin, France
5) Emmanuelle PIGNOL, 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) Charlotta 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 AhlbomGoteborg, 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) Celeste Thompson, 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 Jarrell, 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) Cheri Alves-Branker, British Columbia, CANADA
135) Lori Underwood, British Columbia, Canada
136) Monique Gallant, British Columbia, Canada
137) Shannon Robertson, British Columbia, Canada
138) Maria Duran, British Columbia, Canada
139) James Robertson, British Columbia, Canada
140) Sheila Stainton, British Columbia, Canada
141)Pam Evans, British Columbia, Canada
142)Chantal Ricard, Britsh Columbia, CANADA
143) Marie-Claude Bouffard, Puerto Vallarta Mexico
144) Raquel Tacher, Puerto Vallarta Mexico
145)Claudia Guzman, Puerto Vallarta Mexico
146) Alberto Llera, Mexico City 147) Laura Yanez, Mexico City
148) Victor Perdomo, Ky, USA 149) Luz del Carmen Noriega, Qro, Mexico
150)Imelda Hernandez , Monterrey, Mexico
151) Chereen Osborne, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
152) Mary Smirle Bruce, Napanee, Ontario, Canada
153) Maija-Liisa Shelley, Napanee, Ontario, Canada
154) Richard Sankar, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands
155) Ron Burton, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands
156) Willy Fankhauser, Giez, Switzerland
157) Patricia Duff, Sohphia Antipolis, France
158) Sheila Yates, Broughton Astley, Leicester, England
159) Peter Yates, Broughton Astley, Leicester, England
160) David H Clark, Leicester, England
161) Sarah Clark, Leicester, England 162) Prue Conradi, Norwich,
England
163) Caroline Beardsmore, Leicester, England
164) Anne-Marie Woodall-Petford, Leicester, England
165) Mutsuko Sakurai, Tokyo, Japan
166) MarLa JosH L[pez de Heredia, Haro-La Rioja, Spain
167) Mercedes L[pez de Heredia, Haro-La Rioja, Spain
168) Julio CHsar L[pez de Heredia, Haro-La Rioja, Spain
169) Rafael L[pez de Heredia, Haro-La Rioja, Spain
170) Enrique Evangelio, LogroRo, Spain
171) Susanne Carlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
172) Kamilla S-derberg, Stockholm, Sweden
173) Bent-Ole Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
174) Allan Mejer, Copenhagen, Denmark
175) Malene Stilov, Copenhagen, Denmark
176) Henrik Breum Andersen, Denmark 177) Thomas F Dohn, Denmark
178) Erik Munoz, Sydney, Australia 179) Emma Brown, Sydney, Australia.
180) Josh Bush, Tasmania, Australia
181) Rosa Melendez, New Haven,Connecticut, USA
182) Channary Hin, New Haven, CT, USA
183) Julie Miller, New Haven, CT, USA
184) Lily Rhodeen, New Haven, CT, USA
185) Sarah Maxell Portland, ME USA
186) Mimi Gilmore-Maurer, Reichenau, Germany
187) Charlotte Dewar, Middle Haddam, CT 188) Kate McLean Brooklyn, NY
189) Rachel Kreier, Port Jefferson, NY, USA
190) Jeanne Kolva, Highland Park, NJ USA
191) Gus Friedrich, Highland Park, NJ USA
192) Sue Schofield, Norman, OK, USA
193) Jim Morrison, Newcastle, OK, USA
194) Juanita Salazar Lamb, Norman, OK,USA
195) Rheta Moazzami, Dallas, TX, USA
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