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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Nobel peace prize winner joins calls for UN to criminalise gender apartheid

Narges Mohammadi
Narges Mohammadi is joining a call for the UN to address an ‘accountability vacuum’ over gender apartheid. Photograph: Reihane Taravati/AP

The new Nobel peace prize winner, the jailed Iranian human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi, has joined a call by female activists and legal scholars for the UN to broaden the planned definition of crimes against humanity to codify gender apartheid.

The UN is scheduled to debate a draft treaty on crimes against humanity next week and she is joining a call for an “accountability vacuum” to be tackled by including gender apartheid in the document.

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