受信：2001-10-11
シバタさんからのタレコミ。どうもありがとう。
これは今まで紹介した、unicwash.orgに署名を送ろうというのとはちょっと違う。超訳はしないけど、「アフガン女性の権利が侵害されている。タリバンに抗議しよう」みたいなことが書かれているに違いない（ツッコミ歓迎）。続いて「署名が300を超えたらsarabande@brandeis.eduにメールしてくれ」と書かれているが、最後に書かれている発起人（であろう人）の名前・所属とアカウント・ドメインが一致しない。243の2でも書いたように、多くの人が一斉に署名の成果をメールしたら、メールボムになってしまう。
そもそも署名のお願いをメールでしちゃいけないよ、ということですね。

Women's rights in Afghanistan


    If you decide not to forward this, please send it
back to me. (see name at bottom)This is
an actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost if
you drop the line.  Please take 3 minutes out

of your life to do your part. And be sure to include
other members of your household who are willing to sign.

    Oprah recently had a show about this atrocity and
it was heartbreaking.

Petition to the United Nations  :background
Information:

    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 in
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 would rathertake
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 slowlywasting away.
Others have gone mad and were seen
crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying,
most of them in fear.

   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 2001 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>

（俺による中略）

269)  **** *******, Laguna Beach, CA USA



DIRECTIONS:  PLEASE COPY this email onto a new
message, sign the bottom and forward
it to everyone on your distribution lists. Highlight
this whole message; right click your mouse
and choose copy; Then choose New Mail, when the new
screen appears - place cursor in the
blank message area, right click on your mouse and
choose Paste.  The whole message will
appear - now add your name at the bottom, and then
choose the Forward button.  Type in the
name of the people you would like to send this message
to in the To: area.  In the subject
area type: PLEASE HELP WOMEN'S RIGHTS.  Then press the
Send button and the message will be forwarded.


    Very simple - don't let this stop with you.

    If you receive this list with more than 300 names
on it, please e-mail a copy of it to:

sarabande@brandeis.edu>



Margaret S. Duczynski

Faculty Services Librarian

D'Angelo Law Library