Economic Sanctions Against South Africa

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"The purpose of this paper is to discuss economic sanctions used against South Africa to combat apartheid. Economic sanctions against South Africa were first enacted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1962. These sanctions included boycotting its goods and refraining from exporting goods to South Africa. Over the years, as the international community tried to end the system of apartheid, those sanctions, which the Assembly had repeatedly condemned as a "crime against humanity, were expanded.".


The United Nations Security Council instituted a voluntary arms embargo against South Africa in 1963, making it mandatory in 1977--the first time such an action had been taken against a member state. Also in 1977, the Assembly asked the Council to consider imposing mandatory economic sanctions, and in 1979, to..."

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