Holding the Taliban Accountable for Gender Persecution: The Search for New Accountability Paradigms under International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and Women, Peace, and Security


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By Rangita de Silva de Alwis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.113

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Rangita de Silva de Alwis

In this paper, I will examine the legal standards of gender persecution and the evolving descriptor gender apartheid as a way to describe the status of women in Afghanistan. The paper also examines other complementary forms of legal accountability procedures to vindicate Afghan women’s rights and hold perpetrators accountable under crimes against humanity. Although the current locus of the paper is focused on Afghan women, it has larger implications for all other crimes of gender persecution.

Keywords: Gender apartheid; gender persecution; Taliban; international human rights law; women, peace, and security

 

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