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Women and the Taliban: Apartheid by Another Name
Apartheid is the one Afrikaans word that the whole world knows. It is arguably South Africa’s greatest contribution to the development of international criminal law so far. As a South African who lived under apartheid, I recognize the same architecture of systemic oppression in the Taliban’s rule over women in Afghanistan. In the same way that Black people were excluded from spaces and services—“whites only” beaches and benches, for example, and…
The Gaza war has overlaid the Ukraine war for a time. Then followed the violent US intervention in Venezuela. And now the Iran war also pushes the other catastrophes out of the headlines. Even further back human-made disasters, which affect millions of people, have long since been forgotten. Like the fate of the Afghan population, especially...
On August 15, the Taliban have returned to power for five years, waging a real war against women and girls in the country. Through decrees, directives and repressive and discriminatory decisions adopted by the Taliban de facto authorities, they are relegated to the rank of second-class citizens, they are erased from public space and silenced. They are victims of gender-related persecution, which is a crime against humanity under international la…
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