Failure to stand up for Afghan women strengthens gender apartheid, says Heather Barr

Heather Barr, associate women rights director at the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has said that the international community’s failure to stand for Afghan women and girls under the Taliban rule emboldens the “gender apartheid” everywhere.

She made the comment in response to a report quoting Iran’s deputy health minister saying that the recent serial poisoning in Iran was “intentional” and they had found that “some people wanted all schools, especially girls’ schools, to be closed.”