The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was and is already being referred to and used in courts of law in other countries.
Global. Trends reflects the National Intelligence Council's perspective on these future trends; it does not represent the official coordinated view of the US
As we enter a Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals the. United Nations system will be at the forefront of the fight against inequality
National. Library of South Africa: Cape Town campus. Used with permission. Pass laws were designed to control the movement of Africans under apartheid.
temperature extremes in Africa and South America generally varies from low to These scenarios have been widely used in climate change projections and.
Top 10 African countries by total refugees and asylum seekers 2018 in the subregion have been designed to facilitate migration and reduce irregularity.
Heike Paul teaches American Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Er- langen-Nürnberg (Germany). Her current research interests are cultural mobility.
1 oct. 2017 the projected increases in urbanization and migration cities ... international migrants are migrating towards another African country.
17 mai 2018 The Sustainable Development Goals are as meaningful in Canada as they are around the world and we are committed to their implementation.
We are at a critical juncture in human history which could lead to widely contrasting futures. It is our contention that the future is not set in stone
Until 1 November 1999, for historical reasons, South Africa had two national libraries, the South African Library, founded in 1818, in Cape Town, and the State Library, founded in 1887, in Pretoria. In terms of South African legal deposit legislation, each of the national libraries was a legal deposit library,...
Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances since the 18th century, when slaves in the Cape were forced to carry "permission" documents.
The issuing of passes was one of the cornerstones of the colonial and later racial capitalism in South Africa. Passes were used to control the movement of African, Coloured and Indian people, ensuring the provision of a cheap labour source and enforcing the segregation of South African's along racial lines.
A group of women hold signs in demonstration against the pass laws in Cape Town on August 9, 1956, the same day as the massive women’s protest in Pretoria. Since the early twentieth century, African women actively opposed the pass laws restricting the movement of Africans.