What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?
Activists hope a change in international law could help to address the intensifying erosion of women and girls’ rights in Afghanistan
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Over the past three years, the world has watched in horror as women and girls in Afghanistan have had their rights and freedoms systematically stripped away.
In the face of inaction by the international community, a campaign for the conditions being imposed on Afghan and Iranian women to be made a crime under international law as gender apartheid was launched last year. What does the term mean and will it make a difference?
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