The End Gender Apartheid movement launched an appeal a year ago which seems to have found an echo at the United Nations. Experts from the UN working group on discrimination against women and girls called for sexist apartheid to be included as a crime against humanity.
The initiative is also supported by former American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Nobel Peace Prize winner of Afghan origin Malala Yousafzai and the American icon of feminism Gloria Steinem. Five of the thirty states forming the UN commission "specifically mentioned the inclusion of sexist apartheid in the potential treaty", reports Alyssa Yamamoto.