EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 32: No Country for Women – Lawyering for Gender Justice in Afghanistan

Since returning to energy in 2021, the Taliban has sought to reverse Afghan ladies’s hard-won progress towards gender equality. By means of dozens of decrees, insurance policies, and statements, it has focused the autonomy and rights of ladies and women, barring them from public life and severely proscribing their fundamental freedoms. But, Afghan ladies have refused to just accept their political, social, and financial erasure. Each contained in the nation and throughout the Afghan diaspora, they’ve protested the Taliban’s edicts in home and worldwide fora, typically at nice private peril.

On this episode, Afghan activist, researcher, and filmmaker Sahar Fetrat and College of Michigan Professor of Legislation Karima Bennoune be a part of hosts Neha Jain (Northwestern College) and Michal Saliternik (Netanya Tutorial Faculty) to debate Afghan ladies’s struggle for justice and accountability on the worldwide stage. The dialog highlights the potential and limitations of assorted worldwide authorized processes, mechanisms, and methods—together with present and anticipated proceedings in opposition to the Taliban on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice and the Worldwide Legal Courtroom—for reclaiming Afghan ladies’s rights. It additionally explores methods to strengthen worldwide motion in opposition to gender persecution and gender apartheid in Afghanistan and past.