[Dev-C++] Re: FW: woman and humanity rights

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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:46:36 -0500 Judith Rinehart
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> Subject: PETITION 
> 
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> This is an actual petition, and "signatures" will be 
> lost if you drop the line. Please take 3 minutes out 
> of your life. 
> 
> Madhu, 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 restricted to their homes. 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 the street, even if 
> they 
> hold Ph.D.s. 
> 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 must be extraordinarily high: those who 
> cannot find 
> proper medication and treatment for severe depression 
> and would rather take their lives than live in such conditions. 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. 
> 
> When what little medication that is left finally runs out, one 
> doctor 
> is considering leaving these women in front of the president's 
> residence 
> as a form of 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, to dress generally as they 
> wanted, 
> and to 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 
> subhuman in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not 
> their tradition or 'culture,' but it 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 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 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 2000 to be treated as subhuman and as 
> so much 
> property. 
> Equality and human decency is a fundamental RIGHT, not 
> a freedom to be granted, whether one lives in Afghanistan or 
> elsewhere. 
> > > >>> > 
> > > >>> > 1) Giuliana D. Black, Daly City,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 2) Mariam Nayiny, Palo Alto,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 3) Sunaina Gulati-Ruh, Palo Alto,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 4) Megan McCaslin, Palo Alto,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 5) Blake Hallanan, San Francisco,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 6) Kit Henderson, Sacramento,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 7) Sara Myers, San Francisco,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 8) Ellen Tilden, San Fransisco,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 9) Vanessa Ross, San Francisco,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 10) Jenna Shaw- Battista, San Francisco,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 11) Jeanne Racik, Berkeley,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 12) Julie Silas, Oakland,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 13) Renee Longstreet, Tarzana,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 14) Susan Johnson, Encino,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 15) Kenneth Johnson, Encino,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 16) Terri Treas, Los Angeles,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 17) Amy Retzinger, North Hollywood,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 18) Babette Crooms, Los Angeles,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 19) Olivia Kienzel; Santa Barbara,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 20) Sean Dexheimer, Los Angeles,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 21) Elio Chavez, Jr., Pasadena,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 22) Gregory Kastigar, Los Angeles,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 23) Robert Collie, Los Angeles,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 24) Jeff Garvin, Brea,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 25) Tricia Allen, Sherman Oaks,CA,USA 
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> > > >>> > 27) Theresa Donahoe, Martinez,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 28) Jennifer Horn, Concord,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 29) Roxanne Ryan, Alamo,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 30) Miriam Tyler, San Jose,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 31) John Burns, San Jose,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 32) Kristin Lynn Minick, Fort Worth,TX,USA 
> > > >>> > 33) Jeff Neal, Marietta,GA,USA 
> > > >>> > 34) Anna Neal, Marietta, GA,USA 
> > > >>> > 35) Frances Murley-Fort Worth,TX,USA 
> > > >>> > 36) David Murley-London,England,UNITED KINGDOM 
> > > >>> > 37) Jillian Dykhouse, Colleyville,TX,USA 
> > > >>> > 38) Bonnie Dykhouse,Colleyville,TX,USA 
> > > >>> > 39) Nancy Williams, Colleyville,TX,USA 
> > > >>> > 40) Georgene Farr, Sterling Heights,MI,USA 
> > > >>> > 41) Joanne Arensberg, Riverview,MI,USA 
> > > >>> > 42) Luann Ouellette, Vermillion,SD,USA 
> > > >>> > 43) Sandie Sullivan, Vermillion,SD,USA 
> > > >>> > 44) Troy Nelson, Minneapolis,MN,USA 
> > > >>> > 45) Joseph Miller, Minnepolis,MN,USA 
> > > >>> > 46) Kathleen Miller, White Bear Lake,MN,USA 
> > > >>> > 47) Jerry Marquis, Mpls.,MN,USA 
> > > >>> > 48) Julie Stokes, Coon Rapids,MN,USA 
> > > >>> > 49) Tracy Ford, Blaine,MN,USA 
> > > >>> > 50) Sheila Lawrence, Monticello,MN,USA 
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> > > >>> > 55) Drew Hedin, Los Angeles,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 56) Laura Paridon, Laguna Woods,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 57) Jeanie Hagedorn, Des Moines,IA,USA 
> > > >>> > 58) Sue Christensen, Des Moines,IA,USA 
> > > >>> > 59) Sybil Finken, Glenwood,IA,USA 
> > > >>> > 60) Luke Finken, Earth 
> > > >>> > 61) Doug Gerace, Lincoln,NE,USA 
> > > >>> > 62) Cheryl Gerace,NE,USA 
> > > >>> > 63) Sheri Lew,CO,USA 
> > > >>> > 64) Raven Grace,Boulder,CO,USA 
> > > >>> > 65) Martha M.Mertz,EL,MI,USA 
> > > >>> > 66) Colleen R. Cooper,Okemos,MI,USA 
> > > >>> > 67) Barbara J. Sawyer-Koch, East Lansing,MI,USA 
> > > >>> > 68) Margaret A. Meyers, Okemos,MI,USA 
> > > >>> > 69) Mary Helen Espes, Okemos,MI,USA 
> > > >>> > 70) Maureen Kirchhoff, Allenspark,CO,USA 
> > > >>> > 71) Bart Johnson, Err, FRANCE 
> > > >>> > 72) Sharon O'Connor, Olympia,WA,USA 
> > > >>> > 73) Nancy Irving, Tbilisi, REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA 
> > > >>> > 74) Martha Lindley, Seattle,WA,USA 
> > > >>> > 75) Judith Alexander, Woodinville,WA,USA 
> > > >>> > 76) Arlene B. Hawkinson, Seattle,WA,USA 
> > > >>> > 77) Christine E. Mobley, Bothell,WA,USA 
> > > >>> > 78) Trudie Breen,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 79) Catherine Standiford,CA,USA 
> > > >>> > 80) Beverly Truett,AZ,USA 
> > > >>> > 81) Christine Meehan,AZ,USA 
> > > >>> > 82) Janice Gilbert, Valley Center,CA,USA 
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> > > >>> > 85) Lynda Lynde, Helena,MT,USA 
> > > >>> > 86) Constance Gelu, University Place,WA,USA 
> > > >>> > 87) Jodi Woolett, Tacoma,WA,USA 
> > > >>> > 88) Lisa I. Reeves- Lynden,WA,USA 
> > > >>> > 89) Amanda James-Bow,WA,USA 
> > > >>> > 90) Kelli J. Smith, New Port Richey,FL,USA 
> > > >>> > 91) Chris Poirier, Largo,FL,USA 
> > > >>> > 92) Mike Carpenter, Palmetto,FL,USA 
> > > >>> > 93) Alice Pryor, Melbourne,FL,USA 
> > > >>> > 94) Ellen Catano, Manchester,NH,USA 
> > > >>> > 95) Bevely Jennings, Cincinnati,OH,USA 
> > > >>> > 96) Linda Feely, Norwood,OH,USA 
> > > >>> > 97) Sherry Stidham, Norwood,OH,USA 
> > > >>> > 98) Brittany Brown, Cincinnati,OH,USA 
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> > > >>> > 100)Tim Brown, Cincinnati,OH,USA 
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> > > >>> > 102)Amy Cregger, Memphis,TN,USA 
> > > >>> > 103)Kay Emerick, Logan,OH,USA 
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> > > >>> > 105)Mary Samuelson, St. Louis,MO,USA 
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> > > >>> > 108)Rose Klimek, Memphis,TN,USA 
> > > >>> > 109)Barbara K. White, Hoquiam,WA,USA 
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> > > >>> > 112)Marilyn King, CLEARWATER,FL,USA 
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> > > >>> > 115)Charlotte Beadles, Douglasville, GA,USA 
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> > > >>> > 117)Hope Howard, Atlanta,GA,USA 
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> > > >>>>  166) Lawrie McKeith, Yellowknife,NT - CANADA 
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> > > >>>>  168) Bob Fuhrer,Silverton, BC. -CANADA 
> > > >>>>  169) Josee Bonhomme, Whitehorse, Yukon - CANADA 
> > > >>>>  170)  John Pattimore, Mayo, Yukon - CANADA 
> > > >>>>  171)  Heidi Istchenko, Whitehorse, Yukon - CANADA 
> > > >>>>  172) Beverley Brown, Whitehorse, Yukon - CANADA 
> >                173) Suzanne Brown, Adelaide, South Australia - 
> AUSTRALIA 
> > 174)Carol-Ann Brown Hamlin-Sutter, Pt. Charlotte, Florida, USA 
> > 175) Liz Prospero, Port Charlotte, Florida, USA 
> > 176) Dominic Prospero, Port Charlotte, Florida, USA
> >177) Jerilyn Policelli, Bangor,Pennsylvania, USA
> 178) Judith Rinehart, Wind Gap, PA, USA
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