{"id":13244,"date":"2025-09-05T19:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:39:27","slug":"human-rights-watch-recognizing-gender-apartheid-could-strengthen-justice-for-afghan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/human-rights-watch-recognizing-gender-apartheid-could-strengthen-justice-for-afghan-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch: Recognizing gender apartheid could strengthen justice for Afghan women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13237\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hoqoq-bashar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Human Rights Watch: Recognizing gender apartheid could strengthen justice for Afghan women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Afghan women\u2019s rights advocates have called on UN member states to recognize \u201cgender apartheid\u201d as a crime against humanity under international law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The demand comes as the UN General Assembly is discussing a draft convention on crimes against humanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>So far, at least eleven countries have expressed their readiness to discuss the issue, and several others have informally expressed their support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Afghan activists emphasize that such a move, while not an immediate solution to the situation of women in Afghanistan, could send a strong message to the Taliban and other governments that violations of women\u2019s rights will not go unanswered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>They have also announced three main demands: ensuring women\u2019s equal participation in decision-making, preventing the Taliban from being recognized as a legitimate government, and holding the group accountable for widespread violations of the rights of women and girls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Legal experts have warned that ratification of the treaty is a long process and could take at least four years and even be inconclusive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>However, the Global Campaign Against Gender Apartheid has garnered widespread support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Human Rights Watch says recognizing the phenomenon as an international crime could keep hope alive for Afghan women and girls;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>As Afghan activists insist, no better term than \u201cgender apartheid\u201d can describe the current situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch: Recognizing gender apartheid could strengthen justice for Afghan women. Afghan women\u2019s rights advocates have called on UN member states to recognize \u201cgender apartheid\u201d as a crime against humanity under international law. The demand comes as the UN General Assembly is discussing a draft convention on crimes against humanity. So far, at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13245,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}