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South Africa

__Primary Documents:__ [|South African Bill of Rights] The Apartheid was a huge violation of human rights. The Apartheid was a legal system of racial separation. If you weren't white than your rights were oppressed. Women were even more oppressed because they were discriminated against because of their gender and their race. Families were often split up because the husband would work in an urban area while the women were forced to stay in rural areas. Sometimes there were forced removals. People would be forcibly removed from their homes and moved to different locations. The Apartheid ended in 1994. The South African Bill of Rights, created in 1996, made discrimination against anyone illegal. This helped to stop the discrimination in the country but not to completely end it.

[|Letter to Perkine] In this letter to Perkine, the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, the narrator compares the struggle of the South African people against the Apartheid and imperialism from European countries to the fight against the imperialist forces in Angola. He realizes that the Apartheid is a very bad thing and needs to be stopped. He knows that people are trying to fight for their freedom and to end discrimination, but it is very hard. Their natural human rights are being oppressed. The rights that we take for granted in the United States are something that people in other countries, like South Africa, only dream about.

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This is a picture of the sign outside of a bathroom during the Apartheid. The bathrooms are segregated for white people only, no blacks are allowed.

This sign shows the separation of the different races of people. They are saying that this public facility is only for the use of white people.

[|South Africa's Human Rights Reputation Tarnished] This article talks about how even though the Apartheid was ended they still have issues within their government regarding human rights. Their government has been siding with countries who have human rights issues. Their foreign policy seems to be taking the side of all the wrong countries.