>Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:56:41 -0800
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>From: "Brandi M. Johnson" <<bmjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of aoliai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>Subject: Human Rights Petition
>
>
>>>The Taliban's War on Women:
>>>
>>>**** 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 sara-bande@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Melissa Buckheit Brandeis University
>>>
>>>TEXT:
>>>
>>>The government of Afghanistan is waging a war upon women. The situation is
>>>getting so bad that one person in an editorial of the times compared the
>>>treatment of women there to the treatment of Jews in pre-Holocaust Poland.
>>>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.
>>>
>>>David Cornwell has told me that we in the United States should not judge
>>>the Afghan people for such
>>>treatment because it is a 'cultural thing', but this is not even true.
>>>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. Besides, if we could excuse everything on
>>>cultural grounds, then we should not be appalled that the Carthaginians
>>>sacrificed their infant children, that little girls are circumcised in
>>>parts of Africa, that blacks in the deep south in the 1930's were lynched,
>>>prohibited from voting, and forced to submit to unjust Jim Crow laws.
>>>
>>>Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women
>>>in a Muslim country in a part of the world that Americans do not
>>>understand. If we can threaten military force in Kosovo in the name of
>>>human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, Americans can certainly
>>>express peaceful out-rage 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 people of the United States and other countries and their
>>>Governments and that the current situation in Afghanistan 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 the United States.*****
>>>
>>> 1) Leslie London, Cape Town, South Africa
>>> 2) Tim Holtz, Boston, MA
>>> 3) Joyce Millen, Cambridge, MA
>>> 4) Diane Millen, Falls Church, Va.
>>> 5) Bill Millen, Falls Church, Va.
>>> 6) Milt Eisner, McLean VA
>>> 7) Harriet Solomon, Springfield, VA
>>> 8) Arlene Silikovitz, West Orange, NJ
>>> 9) Susanna Levin, New Rochelle, NY
>>> 10) Rabbi Gary Greene, Framingham, MA
>>> 11) Danny Siegel, Rockville, MD
>>> 12) Rabbi Neal Gold, Highland Park, NJ
>>> 13) Aimee Sousa, Highland Park, NJ
>>> 14) James Sousa, Highland Park, NJ
>>> 15) Peter Tatiner, Highland Park, NJ
>>> 16) Roberta Elins, New York, NY
>>> 17) Margaux Baran, Ne wYork, NY
>>> 18) Stephanie Donohue, New York, NY
>>> 19) Debbie Russ, NYC
>>> 20) Ariel Yan, NYC
>>> 21) Erin Burns, NYC
>>> 22) Jenny Laden, NYC
>>> 23) Daedre Levine, NYC >>
>>> 24) Tina Stoll, Bethesda, Maryland
>>> 25) Karen Mulhauser, Washington, DC
>>> 26) Karen Seiger, Washington, DC
>>> 27) Torie Keller, Silver Spring, MD
>>> 28) Larissa Yocum, Washington, D.C.
>>> 29) Matthijs den Otter, Enschede, The Netherlands.
>>> 30) Elske Leenders, Enschede, The Netherlands
>>> 31) Rijanne Assen, Enschede, The Netherlands
>>> 32) Tiemen Jan Bos, Enschede, The Netherlands
>>> 32) Boukelien Bos, Emmen, The Netherlands
>>> 33) Frank van Schaik, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 34) Lisette de Boer, Delft, The Netherlands
>>> 35) Metha de Vries, Utrecht, The Netherlands
>>> 36) Carla van den Bos, Wageningen, the Netherlands
>>> 37) Erna Krommendijk, Krommenie, The Netherlands
>>> 38) Caroline Houtman, Zutphen, The Netherlands
>>> 39) Hanneke Vreugdenhil, Lelystad, The Netherlands
>>> 40) Clara Doesburg, Enschede, The Netherlands
>>> 41) Vladimir Chorchordin, The Netehrlands
>>> 42) Charlotte de Sauvage Nolting, The Netherlands
>>> 43) Jacqueline Hoogerbrugge, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 44) Liseke Hoogerbrugge, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 45) Marie-Louise F|nfst|ck, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 46) Marjolein Marreveld, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 47) Jacqueline Oskamp, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 48) Thea Derks, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 49) Sumire Nukina, Maastricht, Nederlands
>>> 50) Rob van Veen, Hong Kong
>>> 51) Paul G Norris, Hong Kong
>>> 52) Margaret Lowe, Orlando, Florida, USA
>>> 53)Maxine Lowe, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
>>> 54)Elizabeth Anne Cruz, Vancouver, BC, Canada
>>> 55) Katherine-Anne Cruz, Northampton, MA
>> 56) Amy C Shim, Northampton, MA
>> 57) Andrea C. Brown, Northampton, MA
> 58) Brandi M. Johnson, Madison, WI
>
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>From: "Brandi M. Johnson" <<bmjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of aoliai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>Subject: Human Rights Petition
>
>
>>>The Taliban's War on Women:
>>>
>>>**** 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 sara-bande@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Melissa Buckheit Brandeis University
>>>
>>>TEXT:
>>>
>>>The government of Afghanistan is waging a war upon women. The situation is
>>>getting so bad that one person in an editorial of the times compared the
>>>treatment of women there to the treatment of Jews in pre-Holocaust Poland.
>>>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.
>>>
>>>David Cornwell has told me that we in the United States should not judge
>>>the Afghan people for such
>>>treatment because it is a 'cultural thing', but this is not even true.
>>>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. Besides, if we could excuse everything on
>>>cultural grounds, then we should not be appalled that the Carthaginians
>>>sacrificed their infant children, that little girls are circumcised in
>>>parts of Africa, that blacks in the deep south in the 1930's were lynched,
>>>prohibited from voting, and forced to submit to unjust Jim Crow laws.
>>>
>>>Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women
>>>in a Muslim country in a part of the world that Americans do not
>>>understand. If we can threaten military force in Kosovo in the name of
>>>human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, Americans can certainly
>>>express peaceful out-rage 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 people of the United States and other countries and their
>>>Governments and that the current situation in Afghanistan 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 the United States.*****
>>>
>>> 1) Leslie London, Cape Town, South Africa
>>> 2) Tim Holtz, Boston, MA
>>> 3) Joyce Millen, Cambridge, MA
>>> 4) Diane Millen, Falls Church, Va.
>>> 5) Bill Millen, Falls Church, Va.
>>> 6) Milt Eisner, McLean VA
>>> 7) Harriet Solomon, Springfield, VA
>>> 8) Arlene Silikovitz, West Orange, NJ
>>> 9) Susanna Levin, New Rochelle, NY
>>> 10) Rabbi Gary Greene, Framingham, MA
>>> 11) Danny Siegel, Rockville, MD
>>> 12) Rabbi Neal Gold, Highland Park, NJ
>>> 13) Aimee Sousa, Highland Park, NJ
>>> 14) James Sousa, Highland Park, NJ
>>> 15) Peter Tatiner, Highland Park, NJ
>>> 16) Roberta Elins, New York, NY
>>> 17) Margaux Baran, Ne wYork, NY
>>> 18) Stephanie Donohue, New York, NY
>>> 19) Debbie Russ, NYC
>>> 20) Ariel Yan, NYC
>>> 21) Erin Burns, NYC
>>> 22) Jenny Laden, NYC
>>> 23) Daedre Levine, NYC >>
>>> 24) Tina Stoll, Bethesda, Maryland
>>> 25) Karen Mulhauser, Washington, DC
>>> 26) Karen Seiger, Washington, DC
>>> 27) Torie Keller, Silver Spring, MD
>>> 28) Larissa Yocum, Washington, D.C.
>>> 29) Matthijs den Otter, Enschede, The Netherlands.
>>> 30) Elske Leenders, Enschede, The Netherlands
>>> 31) Rijanne Assen, Enschede, The Netherlands
>>> 32) Tiemen Jan Bos, Enschede, The Netherlands
>>> 32) Boukelien Bos, Emmen, The Netherlands
>>> 33) Frank van Schaik, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 34) Lisette de Boer, Delft, The Netherlands
>>> 35) Metha de Vries, Utrecht, The Netherlands
>>> 36) Carla van den Bos, Wageningen, the Netherlands
>>> 37) Erna Krommendijk, Krommenie, The Netherlands
>>> 38) Caroline Houtman, Zutphen, The Netherlands
>>> 39) Hanneke Vreugdenhil, Lelystad, The Netherlands
>>> 40) Clara Doesburg, Enschede, The Netherlands
>>> 41) Vladimir Chorchordin, The Netehrlands
>>> 42) Charlotte de Sauvage Nolting, The Netherlands
>>> 43) Jacqueline Hoogerbrugge, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 44) Liseke Hoogerbrugge, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 45) Marie-Louise F|nfst|ck, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 46) Marjolein Marreveld, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 47) Jacqueline Oskamp, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 48) Thea Derks, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>>> 49) Sumire Nukina, Maastricht, Nederlands
>>> 50) Rob van Veen, Hong Kong
>>> 51) Paul G Norris, Hong Kong
>>> 52) Margaret Lowe, Orlando, Florida, USA
>>> 53)Maxine Lowe, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
>>> 54)Elizabeth Anne Cruz, Vancouver, BC, Canada
>>> 55) Katherine-Anne Cruz, Northampton, MA
>> 56) Amy C Shim, Northampton, MA
>> 57) Andrea C. Brown, Northampton, MA
> 58) Brandi M. Johnson, Madison, WI
>
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