Sentences with phrase «apartheid regime in»

On the recent Do the Math tour, Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, author Naomi Klein and other speakers and a team of organizers launched a campaign calling on churches, colleges, and others to divest their stock portfolios of investments in fossil fuel corporations — as was done in the the 1970s and 1980s as part of delegitimizing the apartheid regime in South Africa.

The international political scene at the time, characterised by the brutality of facts and events such as the Vietnam War, the apartheid regime in South Africa and the consequences of imperialism, constantly reverberates in Golub's painting, like an ever - present murmur that can not be silenced.

The end of the rigidly controlled apartheid regime in 1994 ushered in an era of new freedoms.

Senator Ahmed Lawan, who threatened northern retaliation of the policy if not reversed, likened the proposed policy to the Apartheid regime in South Africa, where the blacks were expected to carry cards in form of pass, to access white dominated areas.

South Africans are celebrating Women's Day 60 years after the iconic women's march against the apartheid regime in Pretoria in 1956.

Did Mahatma Gandhi ever publicly declare his opinion on the racist segregation under the apartheid regime in South Africa?

Only the most paranoid and / or prejudicial of persons would read what you have quoted as a direct (or even guarded) comparison of the Conservatives with the (former) apartheid regime in South Africa.

Speaking to the New Yorker, Mzykisi Mdidimba, who had been tortured by the apartheid regime in South Africa, said that her testimony at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission «has taken it off my heart....

Not exact matches

What will establish Madiba's giant stature in history was not only his prolonged fight for social justice and racial equality, but his determination, following the end of the apartheid regime, that there would be reconciliation, not revenge.

Opponents of the apartheid regime focused their ire on the companies that were directly invested in the country.

The solidarity of the global Christian community was crucial in dismantling the regime of apartheid in South Africa.

My antinationalistic Zionism, apart from my gut aversion to all apartheid regimes, is born of my belief as a Christian that «salvation is of Israel,» that the Jews are chosen of God and indisputably have suffered terribly in bearing the ontological burden of the election God has laid upon them.

What we are left with is a system in which South Africans are paying for debt incurred during the Apartheid regime and Congolese citizens are repaying debts for money that was stolen by Mobutu Sese Seko.

In Baltic states Russian language speakers (up to 40 % of the population) were stripped of citizenship (in violation of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and were instituted apartheid regimeIn Baltic states Russian language speakers (up to 40 % of the population) were stripped of citizenship (in violation of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and were instituted apartheid regimein violation of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and were instituted apartheid regimes.

Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).

WHEREAS campaigns of corporate disinvestment have been effective leverage for change in campaigns against South African apartheid and the Pinochet regime in Chile;

(In French, Russian and English with subtitles) Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (R for violence, profanity, drug use and sexuality) Fact - based gangsta» saga revisiting a Sowetan street hoodlum's (Rapulana Seiphemo) rise from petty criminal to powerful crime boss in the wake of the fall of South Africa's Apartheid regimIn French, Russian and English with subtitles) Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (R for violence, profanity, drug use and sexuality) Fact - based gangsta» saga revisiting a Sowetan street hoodlum's (Rapulana Seiphemo) rise from petty criminal to powerful crime boss in the wake of the fall of South Africa's Apartheid regimin the wake of the fall of South Africa's Apartheid regime.

It's presented as a propagandistic TV documentary about what went wrong in District 9, where Wikus — a white representative of a black government — went in with heavy military backup to uproot the one group in South African history to be treated worse than blacks were under the previous apartheid regime.

This transpired during the reign of the Apartheid regime, so they had to decide whether to enter the country in defiance of international sanctions in return for a big payday.

Fire in Babylon (Unrated) Politically - tinged, sports documentary featuring file footage from the Seventies and Eighties as well as recent interviews with members of the post-colonial, West Indian cricket team which was forced to endure racist taunts while playing on tour around the world, including in South Africa during the reign of the Apartheid regime.

2 However, this understanding has been compromised by South African national policies and strategies aimed to redress the past inequality in accessing tertiary education and to socially and economically advance the majority of South Africans who suffered from the brunt of the apartheid regime.

His younger brother, Sasha, said that the struggles of the apartheid regime shaped their childhood and Mr. Polakow - Suransky's years in public high school in Ann Arbor.

The idea of returning home tells the various stories during the Apartheid struggle of men who had left their family homes in search of labor, migrating to the mines or cities, or even political exiles who had taken a pact to leave the shores of South Africa as a means to take up arms against a brutalist regime.

Coming of age as the South African apartheid regime was slowly and violently being destroyed, Kentridge developed a lens that reflected his acute awareness of his environs and the politics, and sought to speak of what he referred to in a recent Financial Times article as the «immovable rock of apartheid».

This argument has worked in a big way exactly one time in American history, about a generation ago, when the apartheid regime still ruled in South Africa.

I was a college freshman in 1984 and was part of a takeover of the Tufts University administration building to demand divestment from endowment companies doing business in South Africa during the apartheid regime.

(h) «The crime of apartheid» means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1 [crimes against humanity], committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime;