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Resistance and Resilience: Lessons from South Africa for Afghanistan’s Fight Against Gender Apartheid
The systemic discrimination and dehumanization that defined the apartheid era in South Africa is recognized by the world as a crime against humanity that must never be allowed to happen...
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How We Women of Afghanistan are Defying Taliban Repression
AFGHANISTAN—In the four years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the regime’s atrocities have stripped away every space I once knew—invading both...
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In the shadow of gender apartheid: Four years of loss and resistance by women in Afghanistan
It has been more than four years since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. In that time, women and girls have been stripped of their...
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Education as Resistance: How Women in Afghanistan Fight Gender Apartheid Through Solidarity
In today’s Afghanistan, education is no longer just a human right denied; it has become an act of resistance. Since the return of the...
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South African Women’s Resistance Holds Lessons for the Women of Afghanistan Fighting Gender Apartheid
When the Taliban seized power in 2021, the women of Afghanistan’s hard-won rights were swiftly erased. Bans on education, employment, and even access to...
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How Centering Afghan Women and Youth Now Can Help Challenge Oppressive Regimes In The Future
Afghanistan, home to over forty million people, today stands under the rule of an ideological movement that has transitioned from an insurgency to a...
Analysis
How the Taliban Is Using Law to Enforce Gender Apartheid – and How to Push Back
Since taking power in August 2021, the Taliban has pursued a sustained assault on the rights and dignity of women by subverting the established...
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Inside a Taliban Prison: A Protester’s Story
Following the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of Kabul, Narges Sadat took to the streets in protest along with other women. She faced violence and imprisonment, a...
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“The Death of Hazaras Is Permissible”: Protesting the Taliban as a Minority Woman
After the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August of 2021, Tamana Rezaei took to the streets to demonstrate against rising gender apartheid in...
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The Taliban’s Violence Ignited a Fierce Resistance Within Me
On August 21, Afghanistan’s de facto authorities formally published a 114-page document detailing the vice and virtue laws governing the private lives of women and men,...
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Imprisoned & Tortured by the Taliban for Protesting Gender Apartheid
On August 15, 2021, Kabul fell to the Taliban. Zholia Parsi, who was in Kabul at the time, had spent fourteen years as a...