The Dangerous Road from Gender Backlash to Gender Apartheid

by | Sep 19, 2024

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Interviewer: Oxford Human Rights Hub

The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) aims to bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the globe to advance the understanding and protection of human rights and equality. Through the vigorous exchange of ideas and resources, we strive to facilitate a better understanding of human rights principles, to develop new approaches to policy, and to influence the development of human rights law and practice.

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In this episode, Meghan Campbell talks with Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Member of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, about the concept of gender apartheid in light of the horrific denial of the equality and human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. Dorothy and other members of the Working Group have been advocating for understanding this violation as gender apartheid.

In our conversation, we explore what this concept means, what salience it has in thinking more broadly about the current backlash against women’s rights and how gender apartheid can be utilized to fight for women’s equality.

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  • This episode was produced in partnership with the EUniWell Fund and the University of Birmingham.
  • Executive produced and hosted by Meghan Campbell.
  • Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.
  • Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.

The podcast is also available on SPOTIFY.

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