Malala Fund Calls for Global Support for Women in Afghanistan

The Malala Fund urged global action to support women in Afghanistan, warning that four years on, gender apartheid endures, erasing rights, education, and basic freedoms.

The Malala Fund has urged countries worldwide to step up support for Afghanistan’s women and girls, warning that they continue to live under “gender apartheid” four years after the collapse of the republic regime in the country.

In a statement marking the anniversary, the organization said the Taliban’s restrictions amount to an effort to erase women’s rights, identity, and history from Afghanistan society. It called on the international community to provide stronger political, financial, and humanitarian backing for women resisting repression.

The fund highlighted bans on education, work, and public participation, stressing that international solidarity and grassroots activism remain vital to protecting Afghanistan’s girls’ right to learn and safeguarding civil society.

It added that flexible funding is one of the most effective ways to keep women’s movements alive, while also pushing for legal recognition of gender apartheid as an international crime.

The call reflects growing concern from rights groups, who argue that Afghanistan under Taliban rule represents the most extreme assault on women’s freedoms anywhere in the world.

Analysts warn that without stronger global commitment, Afghanistan’s women-led movements risk being silenced, leaving generations of girls without education and further entrenching one of the harshest gender regimes in modern history.

Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban have banned girls from secondary and higher education, restricted women’s employment, and limited their movement. The United Nations has described Afghanistan as the only country where girls are excluded from school beyond the primary level, a policy condemned as a grave violation of human rights and international law.

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