Karima Bennoune Profile picture
Professor of #InternationalLaw & #HumanRights @UMichLaw. Former UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights. https://t.co/mbtC0mtDDv. RTs≠endorse.
Mar 8, 2023 11 tweets 10 min read
On #IWD2023, I share 3 Fact Sheets on #GenderApartheid I wrote w @UMichLaw student Amulya Vadapalli based on bit.ly/3ZOOHNk:

1)What is Gender Apartheid (GA)?
2)Added Value of Apartheid Approach
3) GA in #Afghanistan
bit.ly/3yhuCDV

Stand w #Afghan Women
1/11 Image "#GenderApartheid is the systematic segregation of the sexes imposed through law & policy as a governing ideology. In this construct, segregation may be accompanied by the total exclusion of women as in Taliban #Afghanistan, the
paradigmatic example of gender apartheid"
#IWD2023
Oct 4, 2022 23 tweets 15 min read
To counter some of the disappointing & predictable responses to heroic #protests in #Iran, incl in #academia, I share my recent essay which calls on academics to avoid undercutting dissident #feminist voices, incl those of #Muslim heritage

bit.ly/3yh1JI9

(Long) Thread British Asian women demonstrating in support of the writer @ Concepts like Orientalism & Islamophobia, originally responding to realities of past & present subordination, are now sometimes used by Western critical intellectuals to discipline those who exercise their equal right to be critical of their own contexts..
bit.ly/3yh1JI9