From madrassas to TikTok: the Taliban imperative to indoctrinate
Social media platforms like TikTok, X (formerly twitter), and Facebook, which are wildly popular among young Afghans, have become the...
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The women of Afghanistan are strong but need Support. Here’s how you can help
Wherever you are in the world, imagine if all the girls in your country were suddenly banned from attending school....
Taking the Taliban to court: What lies ahead in Afghan women’s struggle against extreme misogyny
The unequal fight of women in Afghanistan against the Taliban has finally found a somewhat clearer path. Justice, that has...
Three years of gender apartheid and the pathology of the disappearance of human rights for women
While systemic and continuous misogyny persists on one hand, on the other, advocacy efforts to fight this hostility have lacked...
The campaign of #EndGenderApartheid in Afghanistan
It's nearly three years since the brutal restrictions on girls and women of Afghanistan began making national and international headlines....
In Conversation with Malala part 2: On the power of women’s protest, overcoming the injustice of education bans, and a message of hope
This is the second of two parts of an interview with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai and the director...
In Conversation with Malala part 1: On the importance of codifying gender apartheid as a crime against humanity and the difference it will make
Malala Yousafzai: When I hear the uproar of Afghan women that they’ve been abandoned, I think there’s a strong reason...
Targeting gender apartheid is the key to dismantling Taliban oppression
Ahead of this weekend’s United Nations meeting with the Taliban in Qatar, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in...
The need to focus on breaking down gender apartheid and not on power-sharing with the Taliban
With the Taliban promoting the upcoming United Nations-hosted Doha meeting this weekend as a sign of their rising legitimacy, human...
The important subtleties of difference in Afghan and Iranian women’s battles against discrimination
Fighting against gender apartheid is not a simple task. The complexities of regimes which deploy multilayered rules and tools to...
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