UN Rights Chief Calls for Criminalization of Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan

UN High Commissioner Volker Turk urges global recognition of gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Thursday, February 26, stated in Geneva that Afghanistan’s women and girls face systematic gender-based oppression amounting to gender apartheid, calling for international legal recognition.

He warned that recent Taliban laws formalize discrimination, expand domestic violence, and grant state-like legitimacy to abuses, undermining...