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August 15, 2025 marks four years since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. This series archives the trauma and resistance of women in Afghanistan who have endured psychological, social and legal oppression under gender apartheid.
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📅 Weds 4 November
⏰15:00 CET
Tune in to a virtual conversation with REDRESS, where EGA Legal Advisor @akila_rad will discuss current negotiations and the future UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity.
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EGA is delighted that @ngowgwps has included recommendations that they support the codification of gender apartheid in their annual letter to the UN Security Council.
Read their letter and recommendation on gender apartheid now➡️ womenpeacesecurity.org/resou…
Last week, EGA's Azadah Raz Mohammad and @akila_rad participated in the 2026 Gender Justice in International Criminal Law Conference, where they discussed the best ways to support accountability for the Taliban’s gender apartheid system in Afghanistan.
Learn more: 4genderjustice.org/gender-ju…
‼️Today's announcement that the US has imposed sanctions on ICC will put justice further out of reach. EGA strongly condemns this decision, and is dismayed by the harm it will cause to the people of Afghanistan.
Read our statement ➡️
The International Criminal Court unsealed four arrest warrants against senior Taliban figures, finding reasonable grounds to believe the four suspects are responsible for crimes against humanity.
Read the statements by EGA legal advisors @GissouNia and Azadah Raz Mohammad ⬇️
This week, EGA Legal Advisor and Co-Founder of the Afghanistan Accountability Collective Azadah Raz Mohammad will be speaking on two panels at the Gender Justice in International Criminal Law Conference 2026.
Follow along at 4genderjustice.org/gender-ju….
Together with our civil society partners, EGA urges international action two years after the launch of the ICJ-CEDAW Afghanistan Initiative.
Read the full statement here ➡️
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#EndGenderApartheid
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En #HLW 🇺🇳 copatrocinamos encuentro de @MalalaFund e 🇮🇪 sobre la situación de las mujeres afganas. Reafirmé el compromiso de 🇲🇽 con los #ddhh de las mujeres y niñas en el🌎.
Seguiremos impulsando el reconocimiento del apartheid de género como crimen de lesa humanidad.
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Addressing a UNGA side event on Afghanistan, rights advocate Metra Mehran said Afghan women have “put their faith in international law” because they have no other option.
“A girl who hasn’t been to school in the past five years cannot afford not to believe and have faith in international law,” she said, urging the international community to deliver on its commitments.
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میترا مهران، بنیانگذار ائتلاف پاسخگویی افغانستان: یک رژیم تمامیتخواه و سرکوبگر در افغانستان حاکم است.
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UN human rights chief Volker Turk says the Taliban have “established essentially a gender apartheid regime” in Afghanistan.
Speaking at a UNGA side event on Afghanistan, Turk said human rights, particularly those of women and girls, must be at the center of any international engagement with the Taliban.
EGA Policy Advisor and Co-Founder of the Afghanistan Accountability Collective @Metra_Mehran joined @volker_turk today for a conversation on the need for the international community to confront gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
Watch the full event here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1f/k1…
🗓 Sept 21 | ⏰12:30pm ET
Join the Afghanistan Accountability Collective and @EGACampaign at the #UNGA81 Goals Lounge for a conversation on the deteriorating women's rights crisis in Afghanistan, featuring EGA’s @metra_mehran and @UNHumanRights Chief Volker Türk.
Watch live ⬇️
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🗓September 21
⏰3:00pm ET
Don’t miss the @EGACampaign on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly for a hybrid panel on women, peace, justice, and national reconciliation in Afghanistan, five years after the Taliban takeover.
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Today marks the five-year anniversary of the Taliban banning women and girls from Afghanistan from secondary education.
Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls and women are formally banned from secondary and higher education. Each year that this ban remains in place, women and girls from Afghanistan continue to lose their fundamental right to schooling opportunities. It's time for the international community to call this treatment what it is: gender apartheid.
#EndGenderApartheid
Four years ago today, Mahsa Jina Amini was killed for being a woman, igniting the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, which were met with brutal repression. Those responsible haven't been held accountable. It’s time to stand with the women and girls fighting for justice in Iran.
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Addressing a UNSC meeting, former Mines Minister Nargis Nehan presented three proposals: adopt a resolution recognizing institutionalized discrimination against Afghan women and girls; support an inclusive, Afghan-led political process; and fully fund the $1.7 billion humanitarian response plan.
