Yaël Braun-Pivet, the president of the French National Assembly, has described the Taliban administration's policies against Afghan women as 'gender apartheid' and stressed the need to actively counter it. She made the statement following discussions with Nargis Nehan, Afghanistan's former minister of mines and petroleum.
Writing on the social media platform X, the French parliamentary leader stated that women in Afghanistan are systematically erased from public life, denied fundamental rights, and forced into silence. She emphasized that this systematic policy has a specific name—gender apartheid—and declared the ongoing situation unacceptable.
Braun-Pivet added that her talks with Nehan focused on the urgent necessity of formally recognizing gender apartheid internationally and taking concrete actions against it to defend fundamental freedoms.
Nehan expressed gratitude to Braun-Pivet on X for supporting Afghan women's appeals to classify and criminalize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity. She underscored that international recognition must translate into practical measures to hold perpetrators accountable.
Since returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration has imposed extensive restrictions that bar women and girls from secondary education, universities, and most workplaces across the country.
Human rights advocates continue to push for the legal codification of gender apartheid, while the International Criminal Court evaluates measures addressing alleged crimes against humanity tied to institutionalized oppression of women.
Source: X and Media Reports
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