The 1973 United Nations International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid was the first binding international treaty which declared the

crime of apartheid The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppres ...

and racial segregation under

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."International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid," United Nations, New York, as accessed at https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000280035e63 It was adopted by the

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on 30 November 1973 and came into force on 18 July 1976. It passed by 91 votes in favor, four against (

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, the

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and the

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) and 26 abstentions. 110 countries are currently parties to the convention, with 26 signatories.

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{{treaty-stub United Nations treaties Apartheid Treaties entered into force in 1976 Treaties concluded in 1973

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