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Anti-Apartheid Year.
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This decision, of the highest international forum,
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will come to mobilize world public opinion against the racist dictatorship
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which denies the people the most elementary human rights,
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and constitutes a permanent threat to the independent states of Africa,
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and the maintenance of peace in the world.
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In 1977, WIDF sent a delegation
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of two British members of parliament to South Africa and Namibia.
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They gave a report to the United Nations' Human Rights Commission in February this year.
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That delegation to the 27th session of the Commission on the Status of Women,
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held last April, submitted their testament on the situation of women under Apartheid.
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It was also reported in the seminar on the preparation
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for International Children's Year in France,
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at the World Conference Against Apartheid, Racism, and Colonialism,
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Southern Africa in Lisbon,
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and at the World Conference for Action Against Apartheid organized by the United Nations in Lagos.
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The United Nations program of Action Against Apartheid,
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together with the documents of those two conferences,
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contain concrete proposals for action by world public opinion,
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and the woman's movement to strengthen the campaign against Apartheid
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and colonialism in Southern Africa.
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Speaking of our national organizations,
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they have taken initiatives for this Year Against Apartheid
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