{"id":1018029,"date":"2023-03-08T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/mar\/08\/campaign-calls-for-gender-apartheid-to-be-under-international-law"},"modified":"2023-03-08T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T08:00:20","slug":"campaign-calls-for-gender-apartheid-to-be-crime-under-international-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/08\/campaign-calls-for-gender-apartheid-to-be-crime-under-international-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign calls for gender apartheid to be crime under international law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Afghans and Iranians say current laws do not capture the systematic suppression of women<\/p>\n<p>A prominent group of Afghan and Iranian women are backing a campaign calling for gender apartheid to be recognised as a crime under international law.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, launched on International Women\u2019s Day, reflects a belief that the current laws covering discrimination against women do not capture the systematic nature of the policies imposed in Afghanistan and Iran to downgrade the status of women in society.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/mar\/08\/campaign-calls-for-gender-apartheid-to-be-under-international-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Afghans and Iranians say current laws do not capture the systematic suppression of womenA prominent group of Afghan and Iranian women are backing a campaign calling for gender apartheid to be recognised as a crime under international law.The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,1564,6,25,640,1258,520,4731,1,111,3113,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018517,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018029\/revisions\/1018517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}