Re: Women In Afghanistan
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- Subject: [cg] Re: Women In Afghanistan
- From: B* H* J* G*
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:08:43 -0700
>Subject: Women in Afghanistan
>
><< From: Dr C. Beardsmore <csb@leicester.ac.uk>
>
>
> Subject: Afghanistan Women
> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:33:46 +0100
>
> 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 becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency
> levels.
>
> There 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 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.
>
> Men have the power of life and death over their women relatives,
> especially husbands over 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 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 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) María José López de Heredia, Haro-La Rioja, Spain
> 167) Mercedes López de Heredia, Haro-La Rioja, Spain
> 168) Julio César López de Heredia, Haro-La Rioja, Spain
> 169) Rafael López de Heredia, Haro-La Rioja, Spain
> 170) Enrique Evangelio, Logroño, Spain
> 171) Susanne Carlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
> 172) Pia Albinsson, Stockholm, Sweden
> 173) Julia Schiller, Carlsbad, California, USA
> 174) Elaine Rudin, Carlsbad, California, USA
> 175) Sally Cohenour, Sacramento, California, USA
> 176) Lorri Buch, Menlo Park, CA, USA
>177) Geeta Glasser, San Jose, California, USA
>178) Stephanie Brooks, San Jose, CA, USA
>
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>
> Dr Caroline Beardsmore
> Department of Child Health
> University of Leicester
> Leicester Royal Infirmary
> PO Box 65
> LEICESTER LE2 7LX
>
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