Apartheid
Guide Note: Apartheid refers to any crimes against humanity that result from an institutionalized system of racial, ethnic, economic, gender, religious, or similar oppression.
Fast Facts:
- Apartheid stems from the Dutch word for "apartness"
- Commonly denotes the system of segregation practiced by South Africa between 1947 and 1994
- The Caste System is often referred to as "hidden apartheid"
- Apartheid is often used to define any systematic relationship of oppression or dominance
Also try: Apartheid in South Africa
Also try: Caste System
The Mahalo Top 7
- Wikipedia: Allegations of Apartheid
- Economist: Apartheid Museum
- UN Chronicle: "The Struggle Against Apartheid" (2007)
- Sydney Morning Herald: "At Home in the Townships" (November 11, 2007)
- New Zealand Herald: "You Asked About: Apartheid" (November 1, 2007)
- BBC News: "UN Envoy Hits Israel 'Apartheid'" (February 23, 2007)
- Google News: Apartheid
Apartheid Recent News Stories
- BBC News: Apartheid
- news24: "Aids Battle 'Same as Apartheid'" (November 12, 2007)
- Belfast Telegram: "Heroine of the Struggle Against Apartheid Celebrates 90th Birthday" (November 08, 2007)
- Times of India: "Goa-Origin MP Slams UK's 'Employment Apartheid'" (November 08, 2007)
- Village Voice: "Rousting the Cops" (November 6, 2007)
- San Francisco Chronicle: "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?" (November 2, 2007)
- BBC News: "Mental Health 'Apartheid' Warning" (March 31, 2007)
- Boston Globe: "Romney Calls for Anti-Apartheid-Like Sanctions Against Iran" (January 23, 2007)
Apartheid Background
Criminality of Apartheid
- Wikipedia: Crime of Apartheid
- African National Congress: "The Illegetimacy of the Apartheid Regime..." (December 4, 1987)
- UN OHCHR: "On the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid" (November 30, 1973)
Tourist Apartheid
- Wikipedia: Tourist Apartheid
- The Economist: "Waving or Drowning?" (December 19, 2006)
- Le Monde Diplomatique: "Tunisia: Tourism’s Trap" (August, 2004)
- Telegraph: "Cuba 'Apartheid' as Castro Pulls in the Tourists" (July 6, 2002)
- St. Petersburg Times: "The 'Reality Tour' of Cuba" (May 12, 2002)
- Salon.com: "Tourism Apartheid in Cuba" (February 6, 2002)
Urban and Social Apartheid
- Wikipedia: Urban Apartheid and Social Apartheid
- Social Sciences Research Council: "Postcolonial Urban Apartheid" (June 11, 2006)
- Le Monde Diplomatique: "The Fight Against Urban Apartheid" (December, 2005)
- Global Research: "Racism and Social Apartheid" (November 22, 2005)
Gender Apartheid
- Wikipedia: Sex Segregation
- Third World Women's Health: Gender Apartheid
- BBC News: "Israel's 'Modesty Buses' Draw Fire" (April 24, 2007)
- Worker-Communist Party of Iran: "Against Sexual Apartheid in Iran" (February, 2002)
- The Guardian: "Church Persists with Sexual Apartheid" (October 25, 2001)
Global Apartheid
- Global Policy Forum: "Global Apartheid Continues to Haunt Global Democracy" (September 9, 2004)
- Peace Work Magazine: "Global Apartheid in the Twenty-first Century" (December, 2002)
- CNN: "Mbeki: End 'Global Apartheid'" (August 28, 2002)
- Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives: "Global Village or Global Apartheid?" (October 1, 2001)
- The Nation: "Global Apartheid" (June 21, 2001)
Apartheid: Global and Historical
South Africa
- Mahalo's Guide to Apartheid in South Africa
- Wikipedia: History of South Africa in the Apartheid Era
- IMBOKODO: Women's Struggle in South Africa
- NPR: South Africa: 10 Years Later
France
- Wikipedia: Social Situation in the French Suburbs
- Diverse Education: "France Will Continue to Mirror Apartheid-Era South Africa" (May 4, 2006)
- New York Times: "Elite French Schools Block the Poor's Path to Power" (December 18, 2005)
- The Age: "Vive la Revolution: New Rallying Cry to France" (November 19, 2005)
- Salon.com: "Tariq Ramadan on the Crisis in France" (November 16, 2005)
- The Times: "Muslim Apartheid Burns Bright in France" (November 13, 2005)
- The Guardian: "France Wakes Up to Plight of its Forgotten Cities" (August 6, 2004)
Israel
- Mahalo's Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Wikipedia: Allegations of Israeli Apartheid and Israeli West Bank Barrier
- BBC News: Guide to the West Bank Barrier
- JCPA: "Deconstructing Apartheid Accusations Against Israel" (September 2, 2007)
- The Guardian: "No Apartheid in the Middle East" (February 27, 2007)
- New York Times: "How I Learned to Love the Wall" (March 18, 2006)
- Information Clearing House: "Israeli Apartheid - Time for the South African Treatment" (February 2, 2006)
- Honest Reporting: "Not an 'Apartheid Wall'" (February 15, 2004)
- Al Jazeera: "The Apartheid Wall" (December 8, 2003)
- Le Monde Diplomatique: "Israel: an Apartheid State?" (November, 2003)
Saudi Arabia
- Amnesty International: Saudi Arabia: Women
- Inquiry and Analysis: "The Public Debate in Saudi Arabia on Women Driving" (November 6, 2007)
- CBS News: "Women Speak Out In Saudi Arabia" (March 24, 2005)
- Women's eNews: "Taking the Gender Apartheid Tour in Saudi Arabia" (March 7, 2005)
- Religious Consultation: "Women say Religious Traditions Block Their Rights" (March 30, 2004 )
- Washington Post: "Saudi Arabia's Apartheid" (December 22, 2001)
China
- Wikipedia: Hukou
- CAM: "Women Migrant Workers Under the Chinese Social Apartheid" (May, 2007) (1.99MB)
- China Daily: "Hukou 'an Obstacle to Market Economy'" (May 21, 2007)
- BBC News: "China Rethinks Peasant 'Apartheid'" (November 10, 2005)
- NBER: "Inequality Change in China and (Hukou) Labor Mobility Restrictions" (August, 2004) (312KB)
India
- Mahalo's Guide to the Caste System
- Human Rights Watch: "Hidden Apartheid" (February, 2007) (573KB)
- University of Housten: "The Ethnicity of Caste" (2005) (175KB)
- UNESCO Courier: "India’s 'Hidden Apartheid' (September 25, 2001)
Brazil
- Wikipedia: Social Apartheid in Brazil
- Logos Journal: "Brazil: A Country Marked by Social Apartheid" (Spring, 2003)
- CYD Journal: "The Landmark Achievements of Brazil's Social Movement for Children's Rights" (Fall, 1998)
- World History Archives: "Apartheid in Americas" (March 16, 1995)
United States
- Wikipedia: Racial Segregation in the United States
- PBS: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
- Harper's Magazine: "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid" (September 1, 2005)
- ZNet: "The New American Apartheid" (June 22, 2004)
Australia
- Wikipedia: White Australia Policy
- Official Site: Abolition of the 'White Australia' Policy
- National Archives of Australia: Immigration Restriction Act 1901
- Manning Clark House: "Belonging and Exclusion: National Identity..." (July 1, 2004)
Apartheid Commentary and Criticism
- OnlineOpinion: "Kicking Our Old Colony in the Guts" (September 22, 2006)
- OnlineOpinion: "Australia's Own History of Apartheid" (October 24, 2006)
- CounterPunch: "Heroes on the Faultline of the Global Apartheid" (June 10, 2005)
- Executive Intelligence Review: "Northeast India: Target of British Apartheid" (October 13, 1995)
- The Pink Paper: "Homophobia is Sexual Apartheid" (October 7, 1994)
Apartheid Message Boards and Blogs
- Wangjianshuo's Blog: Hukou System in China
- Danwei: Yunnan Will NOT Abolish 'Hukou' System
- Atlantic Free Press: US Apartheid Wall Under Construction on Native Tohono O'odham Lands
- Atlantic Free Press: Indigenous Peoples' Bringing Down Apartheid Wall
- Progressive Historians: Time to End Educational Apartheid
- Khanya: The Legacy of Apartheid and the Culture of Violence
- Everything Ulster: FIFA Suggest Apartheid in Irish Football
- MPACUK: Are We Becoming an Apartheid State?
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