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Subject: FLASH: Humanitarian...
From: jonathan reiss
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:44:55 +0100

Subject:
Tr: Dignit� humaine
Date:
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:34:14 +0200
From:
"Mikee" <mikeeatswiss-ip [dot] com>
To:
"Ygal Bohbot" <thelagyshowathotmail [dot] com>, "Vivianne"
<dian14athotmail [dot] com>,
"Virginie Peyraud" <vpeyraudatdeckpoint [dot] ch>, Val�rie
<beuzeathotmail [dot] com>, "Thierry" <thbatgeneva-link [dot] ch>,
"Stef Canet" <dubsoldiaathotmail [dot] com>, "Ricardo Sarmiento"
<sabrosonatinfomaniak [dot] ch>,
"Mastery" <masteryatinfomaniak [dot] ch>, "Marianne Casto"
<casto [dot] marianneatsgg [dot] ch>,
"Jules Sambwa" <jsambwaatworldcom [dot] ch>, "Jon Jon"
<jazatmkl2 [dot] com>, "Jeremy" <jerichoatinfomaniak [dot] ch>,
"Florence Ricotti" <florence_ricottiathotmail [dot] com>, "Emily"
<mtanferriatidelec [dot] ch>,
"Diego" <donz78athotmail [dot] com>,





----- Message d'origine -----
De : Guisan Francois
� : ' St�phane Berchtold (Adresse de messagerie) ' ; 'ACTION DE CAREME-
Lausanne' ; 'AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - Lausanne' ;
'AmnestyMmeSawka' ; 'ANDRES Michael' ; 'Annika Sagnell (Adresse de
messagerie)' ; 'antoine [dot] guisanatcscf [dot] unine [dot] ch' ; 'ATD-Quart monde' ;
'Atelier GIOCASOLIDA LudEco - Hussein AIT OUYAHIA' ; 'BAVAREL Dominique
- CODAP' ; 'Bosco da Silva (Adresse de messagerie)' ;
'c [dot] marendazatspan [dot] ch' ; 'CARITAS SCHWEIZ - Lucerne - A. Simonazzi' ;
'Catherine Bouchardy' ; 'chappatglobecartoon [dot] com' ; 'Christine
Haeusler' ; 'CIIP/SR-TI / CODONI Caroline' ; 'Claire DE GOUMOENS -
GENEVE' ; 'Claude-Alain Chollet' ; 'CMLK' ; 'CODAP Centre de conseils et

d'appui' ; 'Comm. F�d. CONTRE LE RACISME, 3003 BERNE' ; 'CROIX-ROUGE
JEUNESSE - ALLIANCE SUISSE DES SAMARITAINS' ; 'Culture
et D�veloppement, CP 632, 3000 BERNE 7' ; 'Daria Mechkat' ; 'david
bollag' ; 'DB' ; 'ENBIRO- Yves Dutoit' ; 'Eva' ; 'fed' ; 'FEE-Neuchatel'
;
'fersurellalatwho [dot] ch' ; 'Fondation Village Pestalozzi' ;
'guisanatcjb [dot] unige [dot] ch' ; 'HCR-Nolet' ; 'HELVETAS-Lausanne' ; '�������
�.�.' ; 'Jaton,
Bertrand' ; 'jflussathotmail [dot] com' ; 'karin_buchlerathotmail [dot] com' ;
'KLEINNatMAIL [dot] UNI-GREIFSWALD [dot] DE' ; 'LADOR Yves - Ass.mondiale pour
l'�cole instrument de paix' ; 'leyvrazatswissonline [dot] ch' ; 'Lucien
Godefroy Maksim' ; 'm_d_hirschathotmail [dot] com' ; 'Marc [dot] Kaplunathcuge [dot] ch' ;
'mauriceaticrf [dot] icnet [dot] uk' ; 'Max Havelaar/Fedevaco' ; 'Mermoud Sonya' ;
'Mikee' ; 'Mondial Contact- Khalfallah' ; 'No�mie' ; 'NOUVELLE
PLANETE - Willy Randin' ; 'Olivier Blum (Adresse de messagerie)' ; 'OSAR
- LAUSANNE' ; 'PAIN Pour Le PROCHAIN - Lausanne - Th�o Buss' ;
'Pedro_Raldaatweforum [dot] org' ; 'Philippe Kamalaprija (Adresse de messagerie
2)' ; 'philippecathelazatge [dot] trimedia [dot] ch' ; 's [dot] defreitasatpingnet [dot] ch' ;
'sonjafunkathotmail [dot] com' ; 'SWISSAID-Lausanne' ; 'tatiana cobbett' ;
'TdH-Gen�ve' ; 'TdH-Lausanne' ; 'UNICEF - ZH - comit� suisse' ; WWF
Switzerland (incl. Sections)
Envoy� : mardi, 14. septembre 1999 09:46
Objet : TR: Dignit� humaine




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WWF Suisse / Projets Jeunesse
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-----Message d'origine-----
De: C�dric Gaspoz [cgaspozatcsaj [dot] ch (mailto:cgaspozatcsaj [dot] ch)]
Date: mercredi, 1. septembre 1999 08:32
�: Val�rie Schmutz; St�phane Montangero; Greg Yemin; Fran�ois Guisan;
Catherine Jobin; B�atrice Salla; Christel Berset
Cc: C�dric Gaspoz; Christina Aebischer; Claudia Michel; Daniel Zryd;
Manuela
Eggimann; Marianne Dardel; Michael Gehrken; Roby Tschopp
Objet: TR: Dignit� humaine



-----Message d'origine-----
De: Catherine Jobin [catherine [dot] jobinatplanet [dot] ch (mailto:catherine [dot] jobinatplanet [dot] ch)]
Date: mardi, 31. ao�t 1999 10:28
�: Daniel Hug; Corinne Lindt; Claudia Michel; Christophe Pinget;
Christelle
Gros; Christel Berset; Chantal Bolanz; C�dric Gaspoz; Caroline & Patrik
Jeckelmann; Blaise Ausgsburger; B�atrice Salla; Arnaud Jobin; Arlette
Roy;
Antoine SCHWAGER; Aline; Alain Paschoud
Objet: Dignit� humaine


Ch�re amie, cher ami,
Quand les simples droits � une vie digne de ce nom ne sont plus
respect�s...
J'ai �t� touch�e par la situation de ces femmes, je vous invite �
participer
� l'action ci-dessous.
Si vous �tes aussi r�volt�s contre ces pratiques inhumaines, tu peux
ajouter
ton nom � la fin de cette liste.
Catherine

> > > >Liebe Freunde (dear friends!)
> > > >
> > > >Christliche Zivilcourage is gefragt! Macht Ihr mit?
> > > >christian boldness is needed! Do you participate?
> > > >
> > > >Vielen Dank f�r Euren Mut / thanks for your courage,
> > > >
> > > >Heinz A. Suter, MA
> > > >Beauftragter SEA f�r Religionsfreiheit
> > > >(delegate for religious liberty of the Swiss Evangelical
Alliance)
> > > >
> > > >********************
> > >
> > >
> > > >To support, please copy this email and add your name to the
bottom of
> > > >the list, including your town and country. Then send this email
to
as
> > > >many people as possible. If you receive this list with more than
50
> > > >names on it, please email a copy of it to:
> > > >
> > > >Mary Robinson
> > > >High Commissioner
> > > >UNHCHR
> > > > webadmin [dot] hchratun [dot] org <webadmin [dot] hchratun [dot] org (mailto:webadmin [dot] hchratun [dot] org)>
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Please spare a minute to read this mail. Thank you.
> > > >
> > > >The government of Afghanistan is waging a war upon women. The
situation
> > > >is getting so bad that an editorial in 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. 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 more than significantly. Homes where a

woman
> > > >is present must have their windows painted so that she cannot be
seen
> > > >by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so they are never
heard.
> > > >
> > > >Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehavior.
> > > >Because the 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 for women, and relief
workers
> > > >have mostly left the country. 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, 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. Men 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 said that those in the West 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 or 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 doctors or educators
or
> > > >simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted
and
> > > >treated as though they are sub-human in the name of right-wing
> > > >fundamentalist Islam.
> > > >
> > > >It is not their tradition or 'culture' but is alien to them and
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 southern US 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 Westerners
may
> > > >not understand. If we can threaten Kosovo in the name of human
rights
> > > >for the sake of ethnic Albanians, then NATO and the West 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

> > > >people of the United Nations and that the current situation in
> > > >Afghanistan will not be tolerated. Women's Rights is not a small

issue
> > > >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

> > > >privilege, whether one lives in Afghanistan or anywhere else.
> > > >
> > > >1) Shahana S. Ahmed, Nairobi, Kenya
> > > >2) Tashmin Khamis, Karachi, Pakistan
> > > >3) Frank Haupt, Bern, Switzerland
> > > >4) Adrian Coad, Strasbourg, France
> > > >5) Brian Skinner, Loughborough, England
> > > >6) Paul Chung, Loughborough, England
> > > >7) Bryan Knell, Woodhouse Eaves, England
> > > >8) Liz Jackman, Gloucester, England
> > > >9) John Mark Molyneux, Bristol, England
> > > >10) Harvey Wade, Aldershot, England
> > > >11) Paul Robinson, Aldershot, England
> > > >12) George Dowdell, Aldershot, England
> > > >13) Rosalind Cuthbert, Oxford, England
> > > >14) Susan Cuthbert, Oxford, England
> > > >15) Stephany Desideri, IL, USA
> > > >16) Amanda Willing, IL, USA
> > > >17) Courtney Ehorn, IL, USA
> > > >18) Courtney Anderson, IL, USA
> > > >19)Courtney Rioux, IL, USA
> > > >20) Maggie McCormick, PA, USA
> > > >21) Christine Spoerl, IL, USA
> > > >22) Vicky Thompson, PA USA
> > > >23) Heather Hinkle, PA USA
> > > >24) Jakob Poellath, Munich, BY, Germany
> > > >25) Florian Carls, Munich, BY, Germany
> > > >26) David Guttandin, Munich, BY, Germany
> > > >27) Ursula Suffa, Munich, BY, Germany
> > > >28) Dr. Winfried Hagenmaier, Freiburg i. Br., Germany
> > > >29) Heike Ostarhild, T|bingen, Germany
> > > >30) Alexander Frank, T|bingen, Germany
> > > >31) Karl-Heinz Schirmer, Emmendingen, Germany
> > > >32) Dorothee Frvhlich, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany
> > > >33) Theo W. Frvhlich, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany
> > > >34) Brigitte Stauss, Schinznach-Dorf, Switzerland
> > > >35) Reto Stauss, Schinznach-Dorf, Switzerland
> > > >36) Tobias Kull, Windisch, Switzerland
> > > >37) Isabella Suter, Riehen, Switzerland
> > > >38) Heinz Suter, Riehen, Switzerland
> > > >39) Ulrich Bukies, Biel, Switzerland
> > > >40) Hardy Meyer, Lausen, Switzerland
> > > >41) Cornelia Meyer, Lausen, Switzerland
> > > >42) Samuel Wagner, Reigoldswil, Switzerland
> > > >43) Gedeon Perregaux, Basel, Switzerland
> > > >44) Catherine Jobin, Hauterive, Switzerland
> > 45)Fran�ois guisan, Gen�ve, Switzerland
> > > >46) Michael Cagnoni. Gen�ve, Switzerland
> > > >47)Jonathan Reiss. New York, USA





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