Uzbekistan's President is forcing doctors to cut out women's uteruses without their knowledge or consent to promote "birth control" across the country. It’s a vile and bloody crime against women being orchestrated by an odious dictator, and now is the time for it to end.
Uzbekistan's Karimov is one of the world’s worst dictators, he’s even boiled opposition activists alive. Yet he’s propped up by millions of dollars from the US government who pay him for military transport across the country. This latest round of brutality, this time against his country’s women, has turned the global spotlight on this monster. Let’s use this awful moment to persuade his biggest backer to ditch him.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can cut him off. She has already publicly condemned Karimov for human rights abuses and this most recent assault on women's rights - a topic she champions - only ups the stakes. Sign the petition below calling on Clinton to end Karimov's reign and stop the brutal attack on women:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/uzbekistan_sterilisation_meme/?vl
Activists estimate tens or even hundreds of thousands of women were sterilised secretly when they went into the hospital for a routine procedure or to give birth -- waking up with no idea that their uterus has just been removed. One Uzbek gynecologist admitted, 'Every doctor is told...how many women are to be sterilised ... my quota is four women a month'. The use of arbitrary arrest and torture is so widespread that women don’t speak out for fear of reprisals, and foreign journalists and human rights activists are routinely thrown out of the country.
It doesn’t have to be like this -- the US could play hardball with Karimov, who relies on the steady flow of money from transit to Afghanistan to fund his lavish lifestyle. The human rights horror show in Uzbekistan has gone under the radar for years -- but we have a real chance to break the silence now, using the explosive BBC report that details forced sterilisations, and stand with the brave Uzbek women who have dared to tell their stories in the face of stunning oppression.
The human rights horror show in Uzbekistan has gone under the radar for years -- but we have a real chance to break the silence now, using the explosive BBC report, and stand with the brave Uzbek women who have dared to tell their stories in the face of stunning oppression.
Join the call for a first victory for the good guys in the war on women -- sign the petition to Clinton and forward to everyone:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/uzbekistan_sterilisation_meme/?vl
SOURCES
Uzbekistan's policy of secretly sterilising women, BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17612550
Doctors in Uzbekistan Say Government Forcibly Sterilizing Women, PRI:
http://www.theworld.org/2012/04/doctors-in-uzbekistan-say-government-forcibly-sterilizing-women/
Uzbek crackdown on activists widens:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/04/12/uzbekistan-activist-free-crackdown-widening
U.S. Suspends Ban On Military Assistance To Uzbekistan
http://www.rferl.org/content/uzbekistan_united_states_military_assistance/24470588.html
Clinton criticizes Uzbekistan's human rights record, CNN:
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-22/...tajik-afghan-central-asian-country?_s=PM:ASIA
