Mandela admonition echoes in Israel’s apartheid oppression of Palestine
While parallels exist between the SA of the past and Palestine, a two-state solution is the only way forward
“We no longer want to be the skunk of the world,” Nelson Mandela famously first said at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) conference in Geneva in 1990. He later repeated it in his inaugural address when he was sworn in as president in 1994.
Mandela had chosen to address the ILO conference on one of his first overseas trips in 1990, where he thanked the ILO for the support and practical action it had levied against apartheid. A declaration on apartheid was adopted by the ILO in 1964, which stipulated that a special report on its implementation be presented to the international labour conference every year (it did this until 1994). These reports and the platform they provided were important in building international pressure against apartheid...
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