Hoda Khamosh, an advocate for women's rights in Afghanistan, announced that a group of women activists from Afghanistan and Iran have convened to push for the acknowledgment of "gender apartheid”.
Khamosh highlighted the group's plan to synchronise their protests to challenge this issue more effectively.
In a recent post on her X social media network account, she stated, "This inaugural meeting of Iranian and Afghan women is focused on eradicating gender apartheid. Our goal is to dismantle the patriarchal structures of the Taliban, which oppress women to consolidate their power, and confront the Islamic Republic of Iran's efforts to suppress and punish its citizens."
A photo shared by Khamosh from the virtual meeting showed the participation of Shukria Barakzai, a former member of the Afghan Parliament, and Masih Alinejad, a vocal critic of the Iranian government.
Alinejad recently named the new Persian year as "the year of unity between Iranians and Afghans against gender apartheid," in a Nowruz greeting, underlining the cross-national solidarity in the fight for women's rights.
