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

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2024

Abstract

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

Publication Title

German Law Journal

DOI

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

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