Throughout history, human rights have been abused in many ways, but there have been a variety of methods that important individuals used to defend human rights for everyone. Individuals like Mohandas Gandhi in India and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. These two people made multiple actions to help protect and benefit the people of India and South Africa,bringing a greater question of it was or wasn’t successful and how. Gandhi protested for unfair laws which Britain controlled, which were many negative effects of British imperialism in India. Britain disrespected India culture in a number of ways. For example, Sati was when the wife burns herself after their husband dies. Britain also forced Indian soldiers to use pork fat as ammunition which
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British leaves in 1910 where the white minority 's still are superior. The whites seen blacks as a threat because there was a greater population of them which made the whites feel overruled. White believed in social darwinism. Blacks made up to 75%. In 1948 the National Party came to power and pass Apartheid Laws. One example of apartheid laws were blacks and whites couldn 't be together, if white and black were having sexual relations they would take photos for breaking the law and arrested, you would have to live in different areas based on the color of your skin, towns and cities were divided. Blacks were forced to live in areas called “homelands”. Males over the age of 16 had to carry around a passbook which inducted information such as ( named , gender, color, date of birth, photo and etc). Blacks and whites couldn 't be in public places together they had different parks, bathrooms, entrances to buildings, post offices, public transportation and more. Black were given a special type of education which were being useful to labors. They prepared Africans for unskilled, hard labor positions. The white government discriminated against Blacks South Africans using social laws, unfair economic policy. Nelson Mandela fought for apartheid in South Africa. This means segregation! Whites were separated from black and other minorities. The African National Congress (ANC) was a group that fought for …show more content…
Both of them used Passive Resistance to achieve full independence for India and South Africa, each of them led boycotts and multiple protests for the better. These actions that they took were seen as successful because they didn’t just protect human rights, they each stopped negative foreign influence(Gandhi) and stopped racial
British leaves in 1910 where the white minority 's still are superior. The whites seen blacks as a threat because there was a greater population of them which made the whites feel overruled. White believed in social darwinism. Blacks made up to 75%. In 1948 the National Party came to power and pass Apartheid Laws. One example of apartheid laws were blacks and whites couldn 't be together, if white and black were having sexual relations they would take photos for breaking the law and arrested, you would have to live in different areas based on the color of your skin, towns and cities were divided. Blacks were forced to live in areas called “homelands”. Males over the age of 16 had to carry around a passbook which inducted information such as ( named , gender, color, date of birth, photo and etc). Blacks and whites couldn 't be in public places together they had different parks, bathrooms, entrances to buildings, post offices, public transportation and more. Black were given a special type of education which were being useful to labors. They prepared Africans for unskilled, hard labor positions. The white government discriminated against Blacks South Africans using social laws, unfair economic policy. Nelson Mandela fought for apartheid in South Africa. This means segregation! Whites were separated from black and other minorities. The African National Congress (ANC) was a group that fought for …show more content…
Both of them used Passive Resistance to achieve full independence for India and South Africa, each of them led boycotts and multiple protests for the better. These actions that they took were seen as successful because they didn’t just protect human rights, they each stopped negative foreign influence(Gandhi) and stopped racial