🚨The UNGA 6th Committee resumed today, with a historic opportunity to confront one of the gravest human rights violations: gender apartheid.

It's crucial that member states push for its codification. This fight affects us all.

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Malala Yousafzai and Malala YousafzaiFund, alongside our allies, have been sounding the alarm on the urgent need for codification against the extreme, violent, and institutionalised oppression faced by Afghan girls and women daily: malala.org/newsroom/malal…

We are grateful to South Africa 🇿🇦 at the UN 🇺🇳, Albania in UN, Vanessa Frazier 🧡, Misión de México ONU, Malta at the UN 🇲🇹🇺🇳, Alicia Buenrostro Massieu for their leadership in efforts towards codification and believe many more will join us.

To learn more about the importance of codifying gender apartheid in the UN crimes against humanity treaty, read this article by human rights lawyers and legal scholars akila radhakrishnan Sareta Ashraph,Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا, Nushin Sarkarati and Alyssa Yamamoto: justsecurity.org/89193/why-the-…