{"id":67168,"date":"2024-10-09T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/09\/afghan-women-exile-taliban-justice-gender-apartheid-crime-against-humanity"},"modified":"2024-10-09T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T08:00:08","slug":"afghan-women-fight-to-hold-taliban-to-account-over-gender-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67168","title":{"rendered":"Afghan women fight to hold Taliban to account over gender apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What women face in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity, say activists pushing for recognition by UN <\/p>\n<p>Explainer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/09\/what-is-gender-apartheid-activists-international-law-women-girls-rights-afghanistan-iran\">What is gender apartheid \u2013 and can anything be done to stop it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Sima Samar and other Afghan women came up with the term \u201cgender apartheid\u201d in the 1990s to describe the systematic oppression faced by women and girls under Taliban rule, she never imagined it would have become a key weapon in the fight to hold a second Taliban regime to account for their crimes two decades later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the first Taliban regime fell, the idea that we would once again see the persecution, isolation and segregational and systematic repression of half the Afghan population on the basis of their gender seemed impossible,\u201d says Samar, who served as the minister for women\u2019s affairs after the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 and now lives in exile. \u201cBut now, in 2024, it is happening again and this time we must find a way to fight for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/09\/afghan-women-exile-taliban-justice-gender-apartheid-crime-against-humanity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What women face in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity, say activists pushing for recognition by UN Explainer: What is gender apartheid \u2013 and can anything be done to stop it?When Sima Samar and other Afghan women came up with the term \u201cgender apart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,913,245,646,59,53,86,79,61,44,84,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-child-rights","category-children","category-gender","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-law","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67169,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67168\/revisions\/67169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}