Autor: Wojciech Królik (mmkrolik_at_cyf-kr.edu.pl)
Data: Tue 16 Feb 1999 - 07:26:42 MET
Bernard Korzeniewski wrote:
>
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
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> Date sent: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:40:38
> To: Benio_at_mol.uj.edu.pl
> From: Jerzy Duszynski <jdus_at_nencki.gov.pl>
> Subject: Women rights in Afghanistan
>
> >
> >Hello,
> >Please sign at the bottom to support, and
> >include your town. Then copy and e-mail to as many people as
> >possible. If you receive this list with more than 50 names on it,
> >please e-mail a copy of it to sarabande_at_brandeis.edu. Even if you
> >decide not to sign, please be considerate and do not kill the
> >petition. Thank you. It is best to copy rather than forward the
> >petition. It will keep the " < " from accumulating in the margins.
> >The English version follows the French one.
> >
> >Melissa Buckheit Brandeis University
> >
> >>>> RESUME DU TEXTE ANGLAIS
> >
> >Depuis la prise de pouvoir par les Talibans en Afghanistan en 1996,
> >la
> >situation des femmes est devenue intolerable: elles n'ont le droit de
> >sortir que couvertes des pieds a la tete du tchadri, et -meme vetues
> >ainsi- uniquement accompagnee d'un homme de leur famille. Les
> >injures
> >et les coups, voir la lapidation a mort par la foule pour un
> >centimetre de peau devoile ne sont helas pas rares. Elles n'ont plus
> >le droit d'exercer aucune activite professionnelle. Les veuves sont
> >donc condamnees a la mendicite et la misere. Elles n'ont plus le
> >droit
> >de se faire soigner, d'autant qu'il n'y a plus de femmes medecins !
> >Les associations humanitaires, les seules qui acceptaient de les
> >soigner, ont ete expulsees de Kaboul, la capitale. Cette regression
> >brutale et barbare dans le fanatisme islamiste le plus excessif qui
> >les condamne a une vie de sous-humaines plonge de nombreuses
> >femmes
> >dans la depression severe et les pousse au suicide (meme dans
> >un pays
> >ou ce genre d'incidences est difficile a evaluer, le constat est
> >palpable). Les signataires de la petition estiment cette situation
> >inacceptable, et demandent une intervention des Nations Unies
> >pour
> >faire cesser cette barbarie.
> >
> >TEXT:
> >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 1998 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) Cyrille FORESTIER, St Paul lez Durance, France
> >30) George BANTING, Bristol, ENGLAND
> >31) Irene Fialka, Vienna, Austria
> >32) Brad MARSH, Boulder, CO, USA
> >33) Richard ALM, Cambridge, MA USA
> >34) Laurel Hajec, Cambridge, MA, USA
> >35) Arlene Semerjian, Framingham, MA, USA
> >36) Larry Hardy, Sturbridge, MA, USA
> >37) Jerzy Duszynski,Warsaw, Poland
> >38) Bernard Korzeniewski, Krakow, Poland
39) Wojciech Krolik, Krakow, PL ( Pologne )
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