Afghan sisters Tamana and Zarmina Paryani enter a 12-day-long hunger strike in Cologne, western Germany to protest against what they call the "gender apartheid" in Afghanistan. The sisters are determined to keep raising their voices against the Taliban. "Afghan women are deprived of their basic human rights, because they are women," says Tamana Paryani, "We want the German government and the UN to recognise the gender apartheid, stand against it, and stop supporting the Taliban." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES