Taliban women

[Mimy Sluiter]

Is ook een vervelende kettingbrief die al - tig keer de wereld is
rondgeweest. Wil je echt wat doen aan het lot van de vrouwen in
Afghanistan dan zijn er veel betere manieren dan doelloos een
kettingbrief te blijven rondsturen!!!!!!!
Mimy Sluiter

harald sprenger wrote:
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> 
> Dear friends,
>  Na een deel valse oproepen, nu weer eens een echte. Bedankt alvast voor de
> moeite.
> 
> Harald Sprenger
> 
> "First they came for the socialists, and i did not speak out because i was
> not a socialist.  Then they came for the trade unionists, and i did not
> speak
> out because i was not a trade unionist.  Then they came for the jews, and i
> did not speak out because i was not a jew.  Then they came for me, and there
> was no-one left to speak for me."
> -Pastor Martin Niemöller.
> 
> First read this, then check out either of these sites.
> <A HREF="http://www.phrusa.org/research/exec.html">The Taliban's War on
> Women: A Health and Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan.</A>
> 
> 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 depression 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
> 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.  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 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
> 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 1999 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, 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 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 Roster, 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) Nadie Savard,British Columbia, CANADA
> 144) Chantal Vaillancourt, Quebec, Canada
> 145) Toby Theriault, Quebec, Canada
> 146) Maude Arsenault Quebec, Canada
> 147) Denis^-Alain Perreault Quebec Canada
> 148) Tracy A. Elofson, Vancouver, Canada
> 149) Kathy McGeean, Alberta, Canada
> 150) Margaret Murdoch, VANCOUVER, CANADA
> 151) Carol Bylsma, Marvel, Colorado, USA
> 152) Shawna Crocker, Colorado, USA
> 153) CeCe Forget, Colorado, USA
> 154) Diana Hammer, Colorado, USA
> 155) Ellen E. Lynch, Hawaii, USA
> 156) Richard J. Brennan, New York, USA
> 157) Sara Kahn, New York, USA
> 158) Gwen Bredendieck Fischer, Hiram, Ohio, USA
> 159) DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr., Chicago, Illinois, USA
> 160) Michele Baldwin, Chicago, Illinois, USA
> 161) Ann Ladd, Pueblo West, CO
> 162) Bunny S. Duhl, Cambridge, MA
> 163) Mieko Nakazawa, Tokyo, Japan
> 164) Yvonne York, Lancashire, England.
> 165) Phil Barker, Newcastle, UK
> 166) Terry Corcoran, Glasgow UK
> 167) LeeChoon Thai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Glasgow, Scotland.
> 168) Sangeetha Madhavan, Singapore
> 169) Sita Ramamurthy, UK
> 170) Suzanne Gorman. UK
> 180) Leonard Lee, Can
> 181) Gabrielle Cordella-Chew, NY
> 182) David Zerykier, New York, USA
> 183) Jonas Søbstad, Bergen, Norway
> 184) Harald Sprenger, Leiden, Netherlands
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