treatment of Afghan women and girls could amount to gender apartheid as their rights continue to be gravely infringed by the country’s de facto authorities.
The UN defines gender apartheid as “economic and social sexual discrimination against individuals because of their gender or sex.” “It appears if one applies the definition of apartheid, which at the moment is for race, to the situation inand use sex instead of race, then there seem to be strong indications pointing towards that.”
In a report covering July to December 2022, Bennett found in March that the Taliban’s treatment of women and girls “may amount to gender persecution, a“These serious deprivations of women’s and girls’ fundamental rights and the harsh enforcement by the de facto authorities of their restrictive measures may constitute the crime against humanity of gender persecution,” Bennett reiterated on Monday at the Human Rights Council.