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... Convinced that an International Convention on the Suppression and
Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid would make it possible to take more
effective measures at the international and national levels with a view to
the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid, ...
... Convinced that an International Convention on the Suppression and
Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid would make it possible to take more
effective measures at the international and national levels with a view to
the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid, ...
... 2. The States Parties to the present Convention declare criminal those
organizations, institutions and individuals committing the crime of
apartheid. ...
... 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) To adopt any legislative or other measures necessary to suppress as
well as to prevent any encouragement of the crime of apartheid and similar
segregationist policies or their manifestations and to punish persons
guilty of that crime; ...
... The States Parties to the present Convention undertake to accept and
carry out in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations the
decisions taken by the Security Council aimed at the prevention,
suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid, and to co-operate in
the implementation of decisions adopted by other competent organs of the
United Nations with a view to achieving the purposes of the Convention.
...
... Any State Party to the present Convention may call upon any competent
organ of the United Nations to take such action under the Charter of the
United Nations as it considers appropriate for the prevention and
suppression of the crime of apartheid. ...