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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Challenging Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan
September 8, 2023 @ 9:00 am UTC+10
Karima Bennoune in conversation with Horia Mosadiq. Hosted by: Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP), Faculty of Law, McGill University and Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)
Via Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86740286450To mark the 10th anniversary of the release of her book “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism,” Professor Karima Bennoune and Horia Mosadiq, a leading Afghan woman human rights defender whom she interviewed for the book in Kabul in 2011, will address the international and local dimensions of the struggle by Afghan women today against the Taliban’s oppression of women. They will also assess the evolution of the struggle by women human rights defenders against fundamentalisms across the region in the last decade.For more details, go to:
https://www.mcgill.ca/humanrights/channels/event/your-fatwa-does-not-apply-here-challenging-gender-apartheid-afghanistan-350095