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... Observing that, in accordance with the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, States particularly
condemn racial segregation and apartheid and undertake to prevent,
prohibit and eradicate all practices of this nature in territories under
their jurisdiction, as crimes against humanity, ...
... (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; ...
... (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; ...