Vereinte Nationen, Internationales Übereinkommen über die Unterdrückung und Bestrafung des Verbrechens der Apartheid

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Vertragsstaaten

Definition des "crime of apartheid" in Art. II dieser Konvention:

For the purpose of the present Convention, the term "the crime of apartheid", which shall

include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in

southern Africa, shall apply to the following inhuman acts committed for the purpose of

establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial

group of persons and systematically oppressing them:

(a) Denial to a member or members of a racial group or groups of the right to life and liberty of
person:

(i) By murder of members of a racial group or groups;

(ii) By the infliction upon the members of a racial group or groups of serious bodily or mental
harm, by the infringement of their freedom or dignity, or by subjecting them to torture or to
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;

(iii) By arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment of the members of a racial group or groups;

(b) Deliberate imposition on a racial group or groups of living conditions calculated to cause its
or their physical destruction in whole or in part;

(c) Any legislative measures and other measures calculated to prevent a racial group or
groups from participation in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the country and
the deliberate creation of conditions preventing the full development of such a group or
groups, in particular by denying to members of a racial group or groups basic human rights
and freedoms, including the right to work, the right to form recognized trade unions, the right to
education, the right to leave and to return to their country, the right to a nationality, the right to
freedom of movement and residence, the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and the
right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association;

d) Any measures including legislative measures, designed to divide the population along racial
lines by the creation of separate reserves and ghettos for the members of a racial group or
groups, the prohibition of mixed marriages among members of various racial groups, the
expropriation of landed property belonging to a racial group or groups or to members thereof;

(e) Exploitation of the labour of the members of a racial group or groups, in particular by
submitting them to forced labour;

(f) Persecution of organizations and persons, by depriving them of fundamental rights and
freedoms, because they oppose apartheid.