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Article: Gender apartheid and womens rights.
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- Our Rights
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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With the ending of racial apartheid, the continent of Africa finally rid itself of the last remnant of legalised and institutionalised racism, which was pervasive across Africa in the colonial era. But we remain with another form of apartheid, ever present and pervasive and more seriously embedded-gender apartheid. These two forms of apartheid are strikingly similar and each is equally an offence against human rights. Each elevates one category of humans as superior to another, leaving believe the subordinated category, which is denied a broad range of fundamental rights. Whereas racial supremacy gives privilege and power to white over blacks, the parallel system of male ...