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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Annie Kelly

What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?

A woman on a street walks past a black and white mural of a woman covering her face with her arms, with the words 'Stop killing women' written across them in red
A mural painted for Women's Aid by the artist Emmalene Blake in Dublin, Ireland. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Over the past three years, the world has watched in horror as women and girls in Afghanistan have had their rights and freedoms systematically stripped away.

In the face of inaction by the international community, a campaign for the conditions being imposed on Afghan and Iranian women to be made a crime under international law as gender apartheid was launched last year. What does the term mean and will it make a difference?

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