Justice and Correctional Services Committee to begin processing UN’s Apartheid Convention
Parliament’s Justice and Correctional Services Committee will soon begin processing the United Nations Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. Known simply as the Apartheid Convention, it was adopted by the General Assembly in 1973 as part of its opposition to the practices of South Africa’s whites-only government. Even though apartheid was the official policy of the National Party (NP) government in South Africa from 1948 […]