Sartorial Walls and Silent Screams: Gender Apartheid and the Global Rollback of Women's Rights. The world must codify gender apartheid as a crime against humanity. Women in Afghanistan and Iran are systemically oppressed and separated under regimes which aim to oppress, demean, control and separate them. Women in Afghanistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia are under male guardianship all their lives. This is not supportable and must end. Yet, there is a concerning normalization of these practices under an acceptance of cultural relativism. No religious or cultural right can be accepted outside of the universality of human rights. Women's rights are being rolled back globally. Women's rights are human rights. We must achieve sex and gender equality, for a better future for everyone. Listen to the episode with Heather Barr on Gravity FM: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/69