The European Women’s Lobby calls for an immediate halt to gender apartheid in Afghanistan
[Brussels, 14 April 2003] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL), the largest women’s organisation in Europe, with over 2000 member organisations, is extremely concerned about the ongoing situation in Afghanistan and calls for immediate action from the international community to bear pressure on the Taliban to cease the exclusion of women and girls from participating in all areas of life, which amounts to gender apartheid.
‘This situation is intolerable, now and for the future’, states Réka (...)
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