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
Repository Citation
de Silva de Alwis, Rangita, "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" (2024). Articles. 316.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_articles/316
https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.113
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.113