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[THEMA - ZUM JAHRESTAG DER ALLGEMEINEN ERKLAERUNG DER MENSCHENRECHTE VOM 10. DEZEMBER - ARTIKEL 2: Jeder hat Anspruch auf alle in dieser Erklaerung verkuendeten Rechte und Freiheiten, ohne irgendeinen Unterschied, etwa nach Rasse, Hautfarbe, Geschlecht, Sprache, Religion, politischer oder sonstiger Anschauung, nationaler oder sozialer Herkunft, Vermoegen, Geburt oder sonstigem Stand.] - A black man walk down the stairs from the Doornfontsin railway station in a suburb of Johannesbourg, reserved for non-whites. Apartheid consists of hundreds of laws that allow the ruling white minority in South Africa to segregate, exploit and terrorize the vast majority; Africans, mostly, but also Asians and Coloureds - people of mixed race. Under Apartheid, racist beliefs are enshrined in law and any criticism of the law is cruelly suppressed. Criticism is nevertheless on the increase: demonstrations, strikes and riots at home, mounting diplomatic pressure abroad. In 1976 the UN unanimously condemned the elevation of one of the homelands - Transkei - into an independent State because it remains dependent on South Africa. Not one country in the world has recognized the new State. A World Conference for Action Against Apartheid will be held in Nigeria in 1977. (KEYSTONE/Camera Press/Peter Jordan) === , ===