Tell the UN to recognize and deal with gender apartheid!

Imagine a system where a government enforces laws and policies that dehumanize and repress people based on their gender. Millions of girls and women worldwide currently live under laws that punish them for simply existing. This is Gender Apartheid. 

In Afghanistan, the Taliban has banned girls and women from going to school, getting a job, or even leaving their homes without permission. They're forced to wear specific clothing, and their lives are valued as less than half a man’s. They can’t travel or make decisions on their own—they’re treated as minors from birth until death.

Time to recognize gender apartheid under international law. The United Nations must do everything it can to put a stop to this crime against humanity! 

The world once condemned racial apartheid, we must now recognize gender apartheid as equally unacceptable. By acknowledging gender apartheid as a crime against humanity, we ensure that those enforcing these systems are held accountable, and the people suffering under them can seek justice.

At least 10 countries have expressed openness to exploring the inclusion of gender apartheid in the proposed UN Crimes Against Humanity treaty. They join UN experts, including the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, in a growing global movement in support of recognizing gender apartheid as a crime.

This initiative has garnered the endorsement of over 100 leading jurists and public figures, including Nobel laureates Narges Mohammadi, and Nadia Murad, South African jurists Richard Goldstone and Navi Pillay, and former International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.

We call on decision makers at the United Nations to urgently support the inclusion of the crime of gender apartheid in the proposed UN Crimes Against Humanity treaty and to promote non-cooperation with and anti-normalization of gender apartheid regimes. 

1. Actively and strongly support the inclusion of the crime of gender apartheid in the proposed UN Crimes Against Humanity treaty.
2. Incorporate non-cooperation with and anti-normalization of gender apartheid regimes into your foreign policy.
3. Add the crime against humanity of gender apartheid to your domestic criminal law.

With the support of the United Nations, we can take significant steps toward criminalizing gender apartheid. Your commitment to this cause would be a powerful statement in favor of gender equality worldwide.

Sign your name to add “gender” to the definition of apartheid! 

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