New law silencing women goes beyond Afghanistan’s borders

The international community must work to codify gender apartheid to make it possible to take legal action against the Taliban regime’s systematic oppression of women in Afghanistan.
The Taliban law comes on the heels of the adoption by the Iranian parliament of the Chastity and Hijab bill in September 2023.

The horrific news coming out of Afghanistan about the new law to silence women from speaking in public is another sign of the worst regression in women’s rights the world has witnessed in centuries. 

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