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Your friends the Taliban :
(I know its quite long by stick with it.)
In 1994, the Taliban, a radical Islamic movement believed to have originated from religious schools in Pakistan, emerged and spread throughout southern Afghanistan.[7] Currently, Taliban forces control about two thirds of the country and most of the armed conflict is concentrated in northern Afghanistan.[9] The Taliban's extreme notions of Islam have had extraordinary health consequences for Afghan women.[2,8] Immediately after taking control of Kabul on September 26, 1996, the Taliban issued edicts[8,10] forbidding women, except for those working in the health care professions, to work outside the home, attend school, or leave their homes unless accompanied by a husband, father, brother, or son. In public, women must be covered from head to toe in a burqa (shroud), with only a mesh opening to see and breathe through. They are not permitted to wear white socks or shoes—because white is the color of the Taliban flag—or shoes that make noise as they walk. Also, houses and buildings in public view must have their windows painted over if females are present.
These violations of women's rights have been justified by the Taliban in the name of religion and culture.[2,10] However, the Taliban's decrees represent a striking departure from past religious and cultural practices in Afghanistan. Before the Taliban took control of Kabul, schools were coeducational with women accounting for 70% of the teaching force. Women represented about 50% of the civil servant corps, and 40% of the city's physicians were women.[10] Afghan women who were once free to choose their dress, move about in public independently, and pursue their careers now are subject to harsh punishment, usually in the form of summary public beatings, if they violate Taliban decrees, which are enforced by the regime's "religious police," members of the Department for the Propagation of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice.[10] Afghan staff members of international organizations have reportedly faced threats, harassment, beating, and arrest while conducting their professional duties.[10]
Although Taliban officials announced in January 1997 a policy of segregating men and women into separate hospitals,[11] they did not strictly enforce it until September 1997, when the Ministry of Public Health ordered all hospitals in Kabul to suspend medical services to the city's half-million women at all but one poorly equipped clinic for women.[12] After 2 months of negotiations with officials of the International Committee for the Red Cross, the Taliban reversed its policy and agreed to readmit women into most hospitals.[13] However, despite this policy reversal, women have less access to hospital care than they did before the Taliban had banned women from hospitals. Prior to September 1997, approximately 25% of the medical and surgical hospital beds dedicated to adults were available for women.[14,15] As of May 1998, only 20% of hospital medical and surgical beds dedicated to adults were available for women while 70% were allocated for men.[14,15] Besides shutting female patients out of the hospitals, the Taliban also banned female hospital personnel, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and technicians, from working in any of Kabul's 22 hospitals
peacechild
(I know its quite long by stick with it.)
In 1994, the Taliban, a radical Islamic movement believed to have originated from religious schools in Pakistan, emerged and spread throughout southern Afghanistan.[7] Currently, Taliban forces control about two thirds of the country and most of the armed conflict is concentrated in northern Afghanistan.[9] The Taliban's extreme notions of Islam have had extraordinary health consequences for Afghan women.[2,8] Immediately after taking control of Kabul on September 26, 1996, the Taliban issued edicts[8,10] forbidding women, except for those working in the health care professions, to work outside the home, attend school, or leave their homes unless accompanied by a husband, father, brother, or son. In public, women must be covered from head to toe in a burqa (shroud), with only a mesh opening to see and breathe through. They are not permitted to wear white socks or shoes—because white is the color of the Taliban flag—or shoes that make noise as they walk. Also, houses and buildings in public view must have their windows painted over if females are present.
These violations of women's rights have been justified by the Taliban in the name of religion and culture.[2,10] However, the Taliban's decrees represent a striking departure from past religious and cultural practices in Afghanistan. Before the Taliban took control of Kabul, schools were coeducational with women accounting for 70% of the teaching force. Women represented about 50% of the civil servant corps, and 40% of the city's physicians were women.[10] Afghan women who were once free to choose their dress, move about in public independently, and pursue their careers now are subject to harsh punishment, usually in the form of summary public beatings, if they violate Taliban decrees, which are enforced by the regime's "religious police," members of the Department for the Propagation of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice.[10] Afghan staff members of international organizations have reportedly faced threats, harassment, beating, and arrest while conducting their professional duties.[10]
Although Taliban officials announced in January 1997 a policy of segregating men and women into separate hospitals,[11] they did not strictly enforce it until September 1997, when the Ministry of Public Health ordered all hospitals in Kabul to suspend medical services to the city's half-million women at all but one poorly equipped clinic for women.[12] After 2 months of negotiations with officials of the International Committee for the Red Cross, the Taliban reversed its policy and agreed to readmit women into most hospitals.[13] However, despite this policy reversal, women have less access to hospital care than they did before the Taliban had banned women from hospitals. Prior to September 1997, approximately 25% of the medical and surgical hospital beds dedicated to adults were available for women.[14,15] As of May 1998, only 20% of hospital medical and surgical beds dedicated to adults were available for women while 70% were allocated for men.[14,15] Besides shutting female patients out of the hospitals, the Taliban also banned female hospital personnel, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and technicians, from working in any of Kabul's 22 hospitals
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"One will find no wording that exempts the "archietects of power" from punishment for there exercies of state terror(such as america), not to speak of their monstrous clients (as long as they enjoy Washington's good graces): Suharto, Saddam Hussein, Mobutu, Noriega and others great and small."
"Lawyers may debate whether the ban on food and effectively medicines violates international agreements sating that "food must not be used as an intrument for political and economical pressure" (rome declaration, 1996). But the victoms have to live with the fact that the CDA (cuban democracy act) has resulted in a "serious reduction of trade of ligitimate medical supplies and food donations, to the detriment of the cuban people"..the embargo has caused serious problems, deterotiation of safe drinking walter, sharp decline in avaliable medicines and medical information leading to a low birth rate, epidemics of neuroligical and other diseases with tens of thousands of victims and other sever health consiquences"
(both taken from 'proft over people' published 1999)
Although the toll of direct murder has been less satisfactory in Nicaragua (threw CIA sponsered contras) then in El Salvador and guatmala , it is a grand sucess of the regan doctrine"
(Taken from 'the culture of terrorism' published 1988)
e.g.
'there' in place of 'their'
'rome declaration' - 'Rome Declaration'
'cuban democracy act' - 'Cuban Democracy Act'
'ligitimate' - 'legitimate'
'deterotiation' - 'deterioration'
...
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.
Dyslexic people can spell
peacechild
Dyslexia translates as "bad reading", however, there are several different forms which include types were spelling can be impaired.
shush you!
lol, alright, but it's no good using it as an excuse if you have cut and pasted a document into the bulletin board is it!
There is a reason grammatical standards are formulated and used: to ease communication of ideas. Moreover, the ability to correctly use a formal structure such as a language is a good indicator of mental competence.
As for discrimination, the word literally means "to draw a dividing line" from the Latin noun discrimen. I take pride in being able to discriminate; to do otherwise would be blind.
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.
[This message has been edited by MacKenZie (edited 09-11-2001).]
Surely the Yanks are in the US, and British people in the UK....