Afghanistan: a 21st century apartheid?
Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, the human rights situation in Afghanistan has continued to deteriorate. While a wide range of fundamental rights have been curtailed, the most obvious case is the systematic denial of the rights and freedoms of women and girls. As new decrees, policies and practices increase the Taliban’s stranglehold on half the population, what tools does the international community have to combat institutionalised gender discrimination? Should the situation of women in Afghanistan be recognised as “gender apartheid”?
Béatrice Ferrari
Director of the International Affairs Department (DAI), Canton of Geneva
Aeyliya Husain
Co-director of "An Unfinished Journey"
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Nargis Nehan
Afghan activist and former minister
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Amie Williams
Co-director of "An Unfinished Journey"
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Phil Lynch
Director of ISHR
French, english
An Unfinished Journey
Forced to flee their country after the Taliban takeover in 2021, four Afghan women leaders struggle to keep the world’s attention on the unfolding crisis, while coming to terms with what it means to have their power usurped and two decades of progress dismantled. From their distant exile countries, these four female leaders – past parliamentarians, ministers, and journalists – watch the Taliban strip women and girls of the right to be educated, to work and to participate in society. No longer in positions of influence, they are forced to reinvent themselves to continue the fight for a free and just Afghanistan. Can these women succeed when the world’s attention has turned to the following headline and even the greatest superpower has admitted defeat ?
Amie Williams
Charlotte Uzu
HitPlay Productions
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