Global apartheid

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Global apartheid is a term used by some to describe the First World's relationship to the Third World. It is defined as a "an international system of minority rule" in which a largely white minority in the West keeps the rest of the world, particularly Africa, poor. According to the theory an international mostly white minority enjoy greater access to human rights, economic wealth and power by virtue of structural racism endemic in the world economic system and the international power structure. Global apartheid makes acceptable the existence of inferior rights for a majority of the world's population due to their race, origin, location or gender.^[1]

In 2002, South African President Thabo Mbeki opened the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg making a plea to end "global apartheid" saying A global human society based on poverty for many and prosperity for a few, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable"^[2]

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   • Global Apartheid by Salih Booker and William Minter in The Nation, July 9, 2001
   • Global Apartheid resources from the Africa Action website.
   • Global Apartheid in the Twenty-First Century by Manning Marable.
   • Global Apartheid Continues to Haunt Global Democracy by Charles Mutasa
   • Global Village or Global Apartheid from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2. ^ CNN.com - Mbeki: End 'global apartheid' - August 28, 2002