As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid'

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The U.N.’s most powerful body is being asked to support governments seeking to legally declare the crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid.'

“We ask you to lend your full support to an intergovernmental process to explicitly codify gender apartheid in international law,” Bahous urged the 15-member council including its five permanent members: the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France.

The Security Council meeting on U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ latest report on Afghanistan took place on the final day of the annual meeting of world leaders at the 193-member U.N. General Assembly. —50% think the Taliban should only be recognized after it restores women’s and girls’ rights to education, employment, and participation in government.

Bahous said the restrictions on women have led to an increase in child marriage and child labor, and an increase in mental health issues.

 

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