08/22/2021 7:51 PM
Clarín.com
Culture
Updated 08/22/2021 7:52 PM
"We, Argentine women, in
the
face of
the loss of freedoms
suffered by the Afghan people today, denounce that in this framework
Afghan
women
have already begun to be aggrieved," the text that the Argentine Foreign Ministry will receive this Monday with signatures of women from culture.
That he will end up asking for asylum for "women, girls and men fleeing the Taliban regime."
The petition -which until this Sunday afternoon had been signed by some 80 writers, actresses, editors, gallery owners and journalists- was an initiative of
Josefina Delgado
-ex Undersecretary of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires and former deputy director of the National Library- and of the journalist
Susana Reinoso
,
Clarín
collaborator
.
Among the signatories are María Kodama, actresses
Edda Bustamante
, Romina Gaetani and Laura Azcurra;
Luz Henriquez, editor of El Ateneo;
the gallery owner Mariana Povarché, the journalist Cristina Mucci, the photographer Julie Weisz and the writers Silvia Plager, Alina Diaconú and Érika Halvorsen, among many others.
Delgado y Reinoso's action was inspired by a note published by the Spanish Soledad Gallego-Díaz on August 14.
There
the journalist called for action
:
In the world.
A protest for Afghan women in Barcelona, on August 18.
AFP photo
"Perhaps, in addition to praying, women around the world
could do something more
, before the greatest of shame falls on all of us. We already know that when the rights of women are crushed in some part of the world it can only be trust in something: in the force, the fury of other women.
Let us not allow what is about to happen to happen
. Let us claim the right of asylum for fleeing Afghan women, be they thousands or tens of thousands, "she wrote.
The Argentines were also based on the letter "Open the doors to Afghanistan and the Afghans", which circulated in Europe and Latin America and, among others, spread the Spanish writer Rosa Montero.
There they wanted the Taliban to let out whoever wanted to leave and for the other states to open their doors for them.
The Argentine letter
"The first news of the entry of the Taliban into Kabul already alerted me, and after the images of women crowding at the airport caused me pain and indignation. Then they invited me to sign the note circulated by Rosa Montero and I thought there: 'Argentine women have to express ourselves,' "Delgado told
Clarín
.
"I met the two Afghan representatives at UNESCO in Abu Dhabi a few years ago and they told me how they had managed to advance their rights," Delgado said.
"Then I thought: 'We are going to offer our solidarity and help. And together with Susana Reinoso we got to work."
In a few hours, some eighty women from the field of culture signed it.
In the letter that will be at the Foreign Ministry tomorrow it is argued: "As the international press recounts, women had to return to wearing the burqa and access to school and university has been closed for girls over twelve years of age, as well as Adulteresses and homosexuals are threatened with impalement. "
And
four specific points are requested
:
1. Opening of
the borders of Afghanistan
to favor the exit of those who choose to do so under essential security conditions.
2. Receive
especially women and girls on
international flights
.
3.
Receive them in asylum
in the countries that they request it because it is a very serious situation within a catastrophe on a humanitarian scale.
4. And finally, that
the Argentine Republic, a
country with a great tradition as a refuge for persecuted and threatened citizens, establish
reception poles
for Afghan citizens: women, girls and men fleeing the Taliban regime.
Until that Monday, whoever wants to join can send their signature to josedemail@gmail.com.
PK
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