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Malala Fund says Taliban penal code entrenches ‘gender apartheid’

The Malala Fund said the Taliban’s newly issued penal code marks a further escalation in the repression of women and girls in Afghanistan, warning that it formally embeds what it described as “gender apartheid” into law. In a statement on Monday, the advocacy group said the code, when combined with the Taliban’s Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, creates a legal system designed to control, punish and exclude women and gir…
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Afghan women exiled in Spain and human rights activists have collectively raised their voices to denounce the international community's normalization of the "gender apartheid" imposed by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan since 2021. They demand real political and legal strategies to restore dignity and rights to millions of girls and women trapped in a system that has institutionalized misogyny.

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EFEMINISTA broke the news in on Tuesday, February 3, 2026.
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