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Gender apartheid at the forefront of international justice

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Women rights in Afghanistan - Veiled women leave a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghan women stage a protest for their rights in the Shahr-e-Naw district of Kabul on 19 July 2023, after the Taliban authorities ordered the closure of beauty salons. Photo: © AFP
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Gender apartheid is a new frontline of international justice, as Justice Info recently highlighted. The guest in this new episode of our Asymmetrical Haircuts partners, Karima Bennoune, is currently campaigning for this alleged crime committed in Afghanistan to be recognised as a crime against humanity by the United Nations General Assembly, and explains to us how and why.

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