End Gender Apartheid
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A global action by lawyers and activists to end gender apartheid in Iran and Afghanistan. For press email: [email protected]
Joined August 2023
Three years ago today, the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan and began a systematic campaign of repression and dehumanization against women to entrench its power. This treatment of women has a name: GENDER APARTHEID. #EndGenderApartheid
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On Friday, “morality police” agents in Iran violently assaulted and attempted to arrest a teenage girl at a park for wearing a T-shirt. 🚨 It’s time to call legally enshrined systems of repression & dehumanization against women what it is: GENDER APARTHEID. #EndGenderApartheid
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Women inside and outside Afghanistan are posting videos of themselves singing online to protest a new set of Taliban laws that severely restrict women’s rights and freedoms. It is time to recognize gender apartheid in Afghanistan!. #صدای_من_عورت_نیست .#EndGenderApartheid
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“I want to go to school!”. In Sept. 2021, an Afghan girl filmed a powerful speech against the Taliban’s ban on girls' education. Over 3 years later, the Taliban continues to prevent girls over the age of 12 from going to school. It's time to #EndGenderApartheid in Afghanistan!
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“If women in Iran & Afghanistan are not free, you're not going to be free here.”. In an interview w/ NBC, @AlinejadMasih called on women globally to join Afghan & Iranian women in their fight against gender apartheid. She is a key signatory to @EGACampaign. #EndGenderApartheid
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Members of the international community recently announced at the UN General Assembly that they would be taking steps towards bringing the Taliban to justice for their oppression of women and girls. Learn what women of Afghanistan have to share about this development⬇️
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همکاران @EGACampaign به آفریقای جنوبی سفر کردند تا با قانون‌گذاران، کارشناسان، جامعه مدنی و طیف های مختلف جامعه درباره زنان و دختران که تحت سلطه رژیم آپارتاید جنسیتی طالبان زندگی می کنند گفتگو کنند و حمایت آن‌ها را برای جرم‌انگاری آپارتاید جنسیتی در قوانین بین‌المللی جذب نمایند.
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Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans girls from school beyond 6th grade. The Taliban's legally enshrined systems of repression against women & girls is gender apartheid. States must criminalize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity. #EndGenderApartheid
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🔊 Sound on!. In a heartbreaking video, female students at the Badakhshan Medical Institute in Afghanistan are seen singing and weeping in the hallways, devastated by the Taliban’s decision to ban women from studying midwifery and nursing. #EndGenderApartheid
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The Taliban banned women from participating in sports, but now a woman from Afghanistan has made history by winning the first-ever medal for the Refugee Paralympic team. "I am here to battle for Afghan women . We are strong and cannot be silenced.". Congrats @ZKhudadadi!!!.
Historic Win! 🥉 . Zakia Khudadadi wins the first-ever Paralympic medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team with a bronze in Taekwondo! . 📷Getty Images . #Paralympics #Paris2024
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🗣️“The Taliban has stripped women and girls of every human right.”. @Metra_Mehran testified before the U.S. Congress on the state of women’s rights in Afghanistan and the urgent need to criminalize gender apartheid under international law. #EndGenderApartheid
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🧵Last week, the End Gender Apartheid global campaign traveled to New York for the 78th Session of the United Nations Sixth Committee, which is convening to determine the next steps for the crimes against humanity draft treaty, including whether to proceed to formal negotiations.
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“The world has forgotten me and all Afghan girls like me.”. This is the story of a 14-year-old Afghan girl named Sadia, as shared by Metra Mehra, an Afghan women’s rights activist and a member of the End Gender Apartheid campaign. @Metra_Mehran . #EndGenderApartheid
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Stand by the women & girls of Afghanistan & Iran and demand that we expand the legal definition of apartheid under international laws. Sign our open letter now: . #EndGenderApartheid
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"What's happening in Iran and Afghanistan is the systematic segregation and discrimination that is not an individual act, but it's a part of the governing system in those countries." @Metra_Mehran. #EndGenderApartheid #آپارتاید_جنسیتی
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Following today’s decision by the UN Sixth Committee to move the draft crimes against humanity treaty to formal negotiations, End Gender Apartheid Campaign Legal Advisor, Azadah Raz Mohammad shares her perspective on the treaty’s impact, specifically in Afghanistan. @azadahrm
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“The international response to this crisis [in Afghanistan] has been shockingly bad. We have seen a lack of coordinated action from governments, and little action beyond statements of concern.”. — @heatherbarr1, Associate Women’s Rights Director at @hrw
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A major step forward! 💪. Today, the UN General Assembly’s Sixth Committee, which deals with legal matters, moved the draft crimes against humanity treaty to negotiations.
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We are thrilled that @Amnesty issued a statement today calling for the recognition of gender apartheid as a crime under international law. The statement cites @EGACampaign’s global campaign to codify gender apartheid. Read more: #EndGenderApartheid
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Professor Karima Bennoune urged the UN Security Council to codify gender apartheid under international law during today’s UN Security Council briefing on #Afghanistan. #EndGenderApartheid
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@NazaninBoniadi discussed the importance of recognizing gender apartheid as a crime against humanity under international law during her Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech last November. Ms. Boniadi is among the key signatories of the #EndGenderApartheid campaign.
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The UN published Member States' written comments on a potential crimes against humanity treaty. 6 states specifically mentioned the potential inclusion of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity and 16 raised other gendered considerations. #EndGenderApartheid.
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🗣 “Women's rights are equal to men's rights.”. Today, a group of women in Kabul bravely took to the streets to protest the Taliban's draconian restrictions on women’s rights. Despite the Taliban's efforts to erase women from society, they continue to rise up and protest! ✊
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The Taliban's recent ban on women’s voices, even if it’s performing or reciting religious verses is the latest in a series of draconian laws passed by the Taliban in their systematic oppression of the women and girls of Afghanistan. This treatment has a name: gender apartheid.
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In a statement to the UN Human Rights Council, @HRW urged States to consider @SR_Afghanistan's recommendation to codify gender apartheid as a crime against humanity & take concrete measures to hold the Taliban accountable. Read more: #EndGenderApartheid
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In 10 days, we will mark three years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan & established legally enshrined systems of repression and dehumanization against women, best described as #GenderApartheid. One stark example of this is the ban on education for girls and women.
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Graça Machel, former First Lady of South Africa, calls for the same level of unwavering commitment that was demonstrated in the fight against apartheid in South Africa to be directed toward addressing the issue of gender apartheid in Afghanistan. #EndGenderApartheid
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Join us for the second episode of "Dialogue: Accountability Mechanisms for Afghanistan," where we’ll discuss recent international efforts to hold the Taliban accountable at the ICJ. Tune in on X Spaces this Tuesday, October 8, at 11:00 AM ET.
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Join our Twitter space tomorrow with @Metra_Mehran & @azadahrm! This discussion will be in Persian. We will discuss the importance of accountability for international crimes committed in Afghanistan for sustainable & durable peace. 👉
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NEW! You can now add your photo to our campaign template to show your support and call on states to make gender apartheid a crime against humanity. 1. Go to 2. Add your photo. 3. Click save. 4. Post on social media and tag us. #EndGenderApartheid
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Today the UN Sixth Committee decided to move the draft crimes against humanity treaty to formal negotiations, a vital step towards the codification of gender apartheid under international law. Learn what our advisors have to share about this development 👇. #EndGenderApartheid
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The End Gender Apartheid campaign was honored to co-sponsor yesterday evening’s screening of Bread & Roses, an upcoming documentary by @Malala, @Sahra_Mani, and Jennifer Lawrence highlighting the voices of the women of Afghanistan under the Taliban’s gender apartheid.
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“At the very heart of this barbaric oppression is the fact that the Taliban have made girlhood illegal.”. @Malala joined a high-level panel discussion on the issue of gender apartheid in Afghanistan, urging countries to codify the crime of gender apartheid. #EndGenderApartheid
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The Taliban supreme leader says that they will continue to enforce strict Sharia law in Afghanistan, including flogging & stoning women in public. Flogging & stoning are clear violations of international law and should never be done under any circumstances. #EndGenderApartheid
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"The Taliban continue to ignore widespread criticism as they flagrantly flout basic human rights principles in an alarming slide into what looks like a grim reminder of their rule three decades ago.”. #EndGenderApartheid
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🗣 “We should not be living in a world where we are accepting a ban on girls' education, where we are accepting it as normal. This cannot be excused.” . @Malala Yousafzai is among the key signatories of the End Gender Apartheid global campaign. #EndGenderApartheid
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Our sincerest congratulations to @karimabennoune, who received #ASIL2024’s prominent women in international law award, in part for her scholarship and work on the recognition of gender apartheid. #EndGenderApartheid
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March is 1 year since a community of Afghan, Iranian, and international activists and jurists launched the End Gender Apartheid campaign. This International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, join discussions on the road ahead for gender apartheid recognition and codification
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At the #UNSC, @ShaharzadAkbar describes the oppression of girls and women under the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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The Taliban may have banned women’s voices but they can never silence the women of Afghanistan!. It is time for the international community to recognize the gender apartheid in Afghanistan & take steps to criminalize it under international law. #صدای_من_عورت_نیست
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Since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban has issued around 80 decrees that directly target women and girls’ rights, demonstrating the systematic and institutionalized nature of gender apartheid in Afghanistan. #EndGenderApartheid
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“Every single basic human rights is legally banned for women in Afghanistan.”. At the 21st Nelson Mandela Lecture, @Metra_Mehran spoke about the deteriorating human rights conditions for Afghan girls and women under the Taliban’s gender apartheid regime. #EndGenderApartheid
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“Any time the Taliban or the Islamic Republic is mentioned, their identities are forever bound, forever shackled to the words gender apartheid.”. @SepidehMoafi, an Iranian-American actress and activist, is a key signatory to the End Gender Apartheid campaign. #EndGenderApartheid
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جنایات طالبان در چشم‌انداز حقوق بین‌الملل؛ مکانیزم‌های رسیدگی به این جنایات چیست؟. گفت‌وگو با @Metra_Mehran و @azadahrm. پنجشنبه، ۱۵ آگست، ساعت ۱۱ صبح به وقت واشنگتن دی سی در توییتر اسپیس صفحه @EGACampaign .
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8️⃣ days until the 3rd anniversary of the Taliban takeover—a dark day for women’s rights in Afghanistan. Lina, a woman from Badakhshan province, says she fears being forced back to her abusive ex-husband as the Taliban has overturned divorces issued by the previous government.
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We commend these States for recognizing the urgent need to include the crime of gender apartheid and to take a gender-competent approach to the treaty. #EndGenderApartheid.
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In 9️⃣ days, we mark three years since the Taliban took over Afghanistan & began issuing dozens of decrees restricting women’s right to work. The restrictions on women’s employment are part of an institutionalized & systematized gender-based oppression called #GenderApartheid.
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7️⃣ days until the third anniversary of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. Shortly after seizing power, the Taliban replaced the Ministry of Women's Affairs with the Ministry of Virtue and Vice—one of the most feared institutions violently enforcing restrictions on women 🧵
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Justice Richard Goldstone shares his experience in working to dismantle racial apartheid South Africa & why it is vital that gender apartheid must be codified under international law. He is a signatory on both the gender apartheid legal brief & the South African jurists’ letter.
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In her closing remarks, @Metra_Mehran shares the powerful and moving story of a young girl in Afghanistan, who wishes to return to school and asks the international community: "Is it true that you have forgotten me?". #EndGenderApartheid
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Thank you @Amnesty for joining the call to #EndGenderApartheid.
We are calling for the recognition of gender apartheid under international law to fill a major gap in our global legal framework. Read more:
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Afghan women must be included in every conversation about Afghanistan’s future. Their exclusion is a direct legitimization of the Taliban’s gender apartheid. #EndGenderApartheid.
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🔊 A powerful video of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi being transferred home after her temporary medical release from Evin Prison. Without wearing the mandatory hijab, she boldly shouts, “Woman, Life, Freedom,” and “Freedom is our right!”.#نرگس_محمدی
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این قسمت "گفت‌وگو: مکانیسم‌های پاسخگویی برای افغانستان" تلاش‌های جامعه بین‌المللی برای محاکمه طالبان در دیوان بین‌المللی دادگستری را به بحث خواهد گرفت. روز سه‌شنبه، ۸ اکتبر، ساعت ۱۱:۰۰ صبح به وقت واشنگتن دی‌سی
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"I call on everyone for the codification of the gender apartheid as a crime against humanity." - @Metra_Mehran
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Last week, @SR_Afghanistan presented his report on gender apartheid in Afghanistan. In @just_security, @Azadahrm & @GissouNia discuss the report’s findings and explain what it means for codification of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity⤵️.
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@akila_rad, a human rights lawyer & legal advisor to the End Gender Apartheid campaign participated at the Nobel Peace Conference to discuss efforts to codify gender apartheid as a crime against humanity under international law. 🗣️ Watch her full speech:
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On this International Day of the Girl, we mark 1,120 days since the girls of Afghanistan have been banned from education beyond the sixth grade. Today, over 1.5 million girls remain deprived of their fundamental right to learn and grow.
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در رویداد افتتاحیه‌ی نخستین سلسله ”گفت‌وگوها مکانیزم‌های پاسخگویی حقوق بین‌الملل در افغانستان“ اهمیت پاسخگویی به جنایات طالبان و تأثیر آن در دستیابی به صلح پایدار را مورد بررسی قرار خواهیم داد. گفت‌وگو با @Metra_Mehran و @azadahrm. 🔗
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The End Gender Apartheid team is working to include gender apartheid in the final text and has cross-regional state support for this effort. One procedural hurdle down, more negotiations to go. #EndGenderApartheid.
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END GENDER APARTHEID!!.
"Through the bodies of Afghan women, the Taliban enforce their abusive moral and societal norms.". The Taliban recently announced it is resuming publicly stoning women to death. After 2.5 years of abuses with no accountability, the Taliban have grown bolder in targeting women.
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🗣 “It’s not just about clothing; they are taking away our freedom to make our own choices. It is like they [Taliban] don’t accept women as human beings.”. #EndGenderApartheid
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Bibi Gul, 21, tragically committed suicide in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province. Bibi graduated from high school in 2021, but she was unable to continue her education due to the Taliban's ban on women attending universities. Read more: . #EndGenderApartheid
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6️⃣ days until the third anniversary of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. 🗣️”Even though the situation has become much harder, we are still fighting the Taliban's gender apartheid. The fear is always there, but so is our determination,” said Huma from Kabul.
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Today Afghanistan is the only country in the world where the right to education for girls and women is legally banned. Read more:
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@Malala joins the panel saying “I hope that on this day [International Women's Day], we make a commitment that the world will not turn its back on the women and girls of Afghanistan. For them, gender apartheid is now a life of fear and shrinking opportunity, every single day.”
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Narges Mohammadi, a prominent Iranian human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been granted a 21-day medical release from the notorious Evin Prison following surgery for a suspected cancerous lesion in her leg. Currently serving multiple sentences totaling
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Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been a strong supporter of the End Gender Apartheid campaign from behind bars and has repeatedly called for the codification of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity. #FreeNarges.
“They cannot just kill her openly in the prison, and so denying medical treatment is a kind of subtle way of pushing her to death without accepting the responsibility of her dying,” Narges Mohammadi's brother, Hamidreza , tells TIME.
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At the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2023, Shirin Ebadi urged for the recognition of the crime of gender apartheid under international law to improve the lives of women and girls in Iran and Afghanistan. Mrs. Ebadi is among the key signatories of the End Gender Apartheid campaign.
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The UN General Assembly’s Sixth Committee (Legal) is scheduled to debate the proposed Crimes Against Humanity treaty in October. 👉 This is an opportunity for Member States to hear the demands of Afghan women and recognize gender apartheid in the treaty. #EndGenderApartheid
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Thank you @Malala, for using your platform to raise awareness on such an important issue. Your powerful Nelson Mandela Lecture should be a reminder to all countries to work towards making gender apartheid a crime against humanity. #EndGenderApartheid.
While in Johannesburg, @Metra_Mehran, @karimabennoune, @ZiauddinY and I met with @Zwandid to discuss how South Africa and other governments can make gender apartheid a crime against humanity — one critical way to stand with and support Afghan women and girls. We know South Africa.
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In Badakhshan province, the Department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is responsible for handling all cases related to violence against women and family disputes, often leading to verdicts against women, according to a Rawadari report. #EndGenderApartheid.
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It is time for States to criminalize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity and recognize gender apartheid in Afghanistan. #EndGenderApartheid.
Today millions of Afghan women and girls refuse to surrender their dreams - and their human rights - we must be equally relentless in our resolve to stand with them. @EduCannotWait #Afghanistan #afghangirlsvoices.
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Sharing her story, @AzarNayera says, “Overnight, I was stripped of every single basic right and reduced to a second class citizen. I lost the right to work, and my daughter like millions of girls in Afghanistan lost the right to go to school.”.
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On International Day of the Girl, over 1.5 million girls remain deprived of their fundamental right to education. The Taliban’s legally enshrined systematic discrimination & dehumanization of women and girls constitutes nothing less than gender apartheid. #EndGenderApartheid
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Womens rights defender and founder of Libertarian Women Movement, Tamana Zaryab Paryani issued a media statement calling on Germany to do more to stand in solidarity with the Afghan women who are facing gender apartheid under the Taliban. #EndGenderApartheid
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@Metra_Mehran, a prominent women’s rights activist from Afghanistan & member of the global End Gender Apartheid campaign, writes for the @nytimes about efforts to codify gender apartheid as a crime against humanity under international law. Full article ⬇️.
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🗣️ “As we fled, no taxi would pick us up, and people on the street hurled insults at us, fearing that helping us would put them at risk. It was heartbreaking to see the fear and hatred in their eyes when all we were fighting for were our basic rights.“. — Huma from Kabul
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🔊Join us on Instagram live in 20 minutes!. A discussion on the recent laws passed by the Taliban & their impacts on limiting women’s freedoms & cementing the ongoing gender apartheid in Afghanistan. With @GissouNia @Metra_Mehran @azadahrm . Link to join:
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UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, @JavaidRehman, warns that a proposed law in Iran, penalizing women and girls for not wearing the headscarf (hijab), constitutes systematic discrimination against women and amounts to gender apartheid. #EndGenderApartheid
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The decision to move forward with the draft treaty would be a vital step forward toward the codification of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity under international law.
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Join the End Gender Apartheid team at #ASP23 in The Hague next week! . Register now for events that will include discussions on gender apartheid, the crimes against humanity treaty, and the path forward for justice for the women of Afghanistan. 👇
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Under Taliban rule, women are no longer permitted to work as lawyers or judges in Afghanistan. As of now, there are virtually no women employed within the legal and judicial institutions under Taliban control.
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Afghanistan has emphasized that the systematic discrimination and subjugation of women and girls by the Taliban demands a critical conversation about codifying the crime of "gender apartheid." @SR_Afghanistan . #EndGenderApartheid
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NPR has named #genderapartheid as a global buzzword that will shape the year ahead, citing the legal brief urging governments to codify the crime of gender apartheid. “With activists ramping up their campaigning, will 2024 see gender apartheid codified under international law?”
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This is an important moment for States to show that they stand with the women of Afghanistan and Iran in the fight for justice and accountability. #EndGenderApartheid.
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The international community must stand with Tamana Paryani and her fellow activists on hunger strike in protest of gender apartheid in Afghanistan. #EndGenderApartheid.
Tamana Paryani and other activists have been on a hunger strike since September 1, demanding that the United Nations and international community recognize that the Taliban have created a system of gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
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