News Center- The Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Protesting Women in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, has published a video supporting the campaign to stop gender apartheid in Afghanistan launched by Afghan activists, legal scholars and human rights defenders to call on world leaders to recognize it as a crime against humanity.

The video shows women holding banners reading “Recognize the gender apartheid”. “The Taliban have banned women and girls from all facets of life, including education, work and tourism,” says the statement read by the women. “Young women have been arrested, tortured and imprisoned under various pretexts and even their families do not know where they are,” the statement says.

Describing the Taliban’s restrictions as inhumane, the statement adds, “Women are fed up with the existing situation and this situation is unbearable for them. Afghan women suffer from psychological problems due to the Taliban’s restrictions.”

Reminding that the Taliban have issued over 200 decrees and orders that violate human rights since August 2021, the statement says, “Despite the statements by the international community condemning the inhuman practices and despite the repeated calls by human rights activists on world leaders, no action has been taken.”