*[Enwl-eng] Afghanistan two years after the Taliban returned

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                   Global Edition | 10 August 2023 
                 
           
                   
                    
                 
           
           
                  It is almost two years since the Taliban astonished – and terrified – the world by sweeping back to power in Afghanistan as US forces withdrew from the country. In recent months there have been suggestions from some in the West that a process of “normalising” relations with the country should now be considered.

                  But for Vrinda Narain, at McGill University in Montreal, things remain far from normal in Afghanistan. She points out that, “Afghan women have been denied the most basic human rights”. This, she continues, is no less than “gender apartheid”, adding: “Only by labelling it as such and making clear the situation in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity can the international community legally fight the systematic discrimination against the country’s women and girls.” Read her analysis here.

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                          Stephen Khan

                        Executive Editor, The Conversation International
                       
                 
                   
                  A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in May 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) 
                  The Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan must be formally recognized as gender apartheid 
                  Vrinda Narain, McGill University 

                  The Taliban’s two years ruling Afghanistan have taught us ordinary human rights initiatives are insufficient to address gender apartheid. We need resolute collective international action.
                 
                   
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