Partition

[Colin James McDermott <jimmcd@ozemail.com.au>]

I know that this has absolutely nothing to do with computers, but what
the heck.

At 21:22 6/09/99 -1000, Kate O'Brien wrote:
>Please consider adding your name to the following petition .
. .
>
>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 1999 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
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>4) Jok FERRAND, Mont St Martin, France
>
>5) Emmanuelle PIGNOL, St Martin d'Heres, FRANCE
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>6) Marie GAUTHIER, Grenoble, FRANCE
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>7) Laurent VESCALO, Grenoble,FRANCE
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>8) Mathieu MOY, St Egreve, FRANCE
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>9) Bernard BLANCHET, Mont St Martin, FRANCE
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>10) Tassadite FAVRIE, Grenoble, FRANCE
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>11) Loic GODARD, St Ismier, FRANCE
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>12) Benedicte PASCAL, Grenoble, FRANCE
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>13) Khedaidja BENATIA, Grenoble, FRANCE
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>14) Marie-Therese LLORET, Grenoble,FRANCE
>
>15) Benoit THEAU, Poitiers, FRANCE
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>16) Bruno CONSTANTIN, Poitiers, FRANCE
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>17) Christian COGNARD, Poitiers, FRANCE
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>18) Robert GARDETTE, Paris, FRANCE
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>19) Claude CHEVILLARD, Montpellier, FRANCE
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>20) gilles FREISS, Montpellier, FRANCE
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>21) Patrick AUGEREAU, Montpellier, FRANC èE.
>
>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
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>35) Jonas Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
>
>36) Karin Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
>
>37) Ake Ljung, Stockholm, Sweden
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>38) Carina Sedlmayer, Stockholm, Sweden
>
>39) Rebecca Uddman, Stockholm, Sweden
>
>40) Lena Skog, Stockholm, Sweden
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>41) Micael Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
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>42) Britt-Marie Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
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>43) Birgitta Schuberth, Stockholm, Sweden
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>44) Lena Dahl, Stockholm, Sweden
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>45) Ebba Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
>
>46) Jessica Carlsson, Vaxjo, Sweden
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>47) Sara Blomquist, Vaxjo, Sweden
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>48 è) Magdalena Fosseus, Vaxjo, Sweden
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>49) Charlotta Langner, Goteborg, Sweden
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>50) Andrea Egedal, Goteborg, Sweden
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>51) Lena Persson, Stockholm, Sweden
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>52) Magnus Linder, Umea ,Sweden
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>53) Petra Olofsson, Umea, Sweden
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>54) Caroline Evenbom, Vaxjo, Sweden
>
>55) Asa Pettersson, Grimsas, Sweden
>
>56) Jessica Bjork, Grimsas, Sweden
>
>57) Linda Ahlbom Goteborg, Sweden
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>58) Jenny Forsman, Boras, Sweden
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>59) Nina Gunnarson, Kinna, Sweden
>
>60) Andrew Harrison, New Zealand
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>61) Bryre Murphy, New Zealand
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>62) Claire Lugton, New Zealand
>
>63) Sarah Thornton, New Zealand
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>64) Rachel Eade, New Zealand
>
>65) Magnus Hjert, London, UK
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>67) Madeleine Stamvik, Hurley, UK
>
>68) Susanne Nowlan, Vermont, USA
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>69) Lotta Svenby, Malmoe, Sweden
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>70) Adina Giselsson, Malmoe, Sweden
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>71) Anders Kullman, Stockholm, Sweden
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>72) Rebecka Swane, Stockholm,Sweden
>
>73) Jens Venge, Stockholm, Sweden
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>74) Catharina Ekdahl, Stockholm, Sweden
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>75) Nina Fylkegard, Stockholm, Sweden
>
>76) Therese Stedman, Malmoe, Sweden
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>77) Jannic èa 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
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>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
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>104) Faye Cooley, Roanoke, VA, USA
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>è105) Celeste Thompson, Round Rock, TX, USA
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>106) Sherry Stang, Pflugerville, TX, USA
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>107) Amy J. Singer, Pflugerville, TX USA
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>108) Milissa Bowen, Austin, TX USA
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>109) Michelle Jozwiak, Brenham, TX USA
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>110) Mary Orsted, College Station, TX USA
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>111) Janet Gardner, Dallas, TX USA
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>112) Marilyn Hollingsworth, Dallas, TX USA
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>113) Nancy Shamblin, Garland. TX USA
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>114) K. M. Mullen, Houston, TX - USA
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>115) Noreen Tolman, Houston, Texas - USA
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>116) Laurie Sobolewski, Warren, MI
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>117) Kellie Sisson Snider, Irving Texas
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>118) Carol Currie, Garland, Garland Texas
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>119) John Snyder, Garland, TX USA
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>120) Elaine Hannan, South Africa
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>121) Jayne Howes, South Africa
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>122) Diane Barnes, Akron, Ohio
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>123)Melanie Dass Moodley, Durban, South Africa
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>124) Amy King Dejardin, Ornex, France
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>125)Eve Hall, Matumi, Schagen, South Africa
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>126) Catherine & Khanya Jele, Johannesburg South Africa
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>127)Sylvie & Alain Grunfeld, La Roche - Yon, France
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>128)Lydie et Pascal Iscache, Paris, France
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>129)Richard Lins Kkell, London, UK
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>130)Agnes Poitevin-Navarre, London, UK
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>131)Zineb Sedira, london, UK
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>132)Poulomi Desai, London, UK
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>133) Julian Samuel, Montreal, Canada
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>134) Himmat Shinhat, Montreal, Canada
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>135) Christian B*dard, Montr*al, Canada
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>136) *lise Roy, Montr*al, Canada
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>137) Pierre Robillard, Montr*al, Canada
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>138) Judith Shiao, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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>139) Meredith Caelli, Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
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>140) Janet Wallace, Wollongong, Australia
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>141) Caroline Williams, Wollongong, Australias
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>142) Alison Standen, Hobart, Australia
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>143) Sarah Birch, Hobart, Australia
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>144) Natasha Beveridge, hobart, Australia
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>145) Nick Shaw. Launceston, Tasmania
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>146) Rosemary Tremayne, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
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>147) Janelle Jackson, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
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>148) Peter Voss, Exeter, Tasmania, Australia
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>149) Louise Phillips, Launceston, AUSTRALIA
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>150)Alison Merridew, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
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>151) Kate O'Brien, Melbourne, Australia
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152) David Calleja, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

153)Colin McDermott, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
>PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message, sign the bottom
and forward
>it
>
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list with
>more
>
>than 200 names on it, please e-mail a copy of it to
>:sarabande@brandeis.edu
>
>(Send after every 100 names.) 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.
>
>
>Pierre Robillard MD
>Montreal Public Health Department
>1301 Sherbrooke street east
>Montreal, QC
>Canada H2L 1M3
>tel: +1 514 528-2400 ext. 3245
>fax: +1 514 528-2459
>email: probilla@santepub-mtl.qc.ca
>
>
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