SI/E is AGAINST DEPRIVING WOMENS’ RIGHTS IN AFGHANISTAN
We would like to inform you of the SI/E Board’s reaction to the recent events occurring in Afghanistan. To summarise this situation for those of you unaware of the current atrocities taking place in Afghanistan, a law was just unanimously voted in by the Afghani Government, depriving Shiite Muslim women (20% of the population) of their basic human rights. President Karzai has signed this law, known as the ‘Shia Family Law’, but it has not gone into effect, as it must be published in the appropriate journal for it to become officially accepted.
These recent events have prompted SI/E to react to the different figureheads involved and those with the power to condemn this situation and prevent this law from ever coming into effect. We have sent letters to: Afghani President Karzai, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and High Commissioner Navaneetham Pillay, and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. You will find these attached to this email.
We ask you for your assistance in supporting our federation, by sending your own letters to your country’s leaders and imploring their involvement in eradicating this abhorrent law. You may use the letters attached as a sample, please just make sure to change the appropriate names and addresses where necessary.
You will find additional information regarding this breaking news story in the links posted below.
We thank you for your continuous support in matters such as these and we assure you that we will be monitoring this situation very closely and taking the necessary actions to reinforce our position, concerning this horrific example of basic human rights violation.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions
Warm regards.
President Mariet Verhoef-Cohen
SI/E President 2007-2009 on behalf of SI/E’s 3,500 members
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