Unit 10: Human Rights Vocab

A political organization created in 1912 to oppose white domination in South Africa. The group protested through marches, boycotts, and strikes

• Hutus

• African Union

• African National Congress

• Tutsis

Federation of 53 African countries who work together to deal with social, political, economic, and military problems in Africa

• African Union

• African National Congress

• Hutus

• Tutsis

Policy of strict racial separation in South Africa; abolished in 1989

• Irish Republican Army (IRA)

• Bosnia

• Apartheid

• Sudan

Since 2003, a region in Sudan where most of the violence took place. More than 200,000 people were killed and millions became refugees

• Bosnia

• Darfur

• Rwanda

• Myanmar

An Anglican Bishop who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid in South Africa.

• Nelson Mandela

• F.W. De Klerk

• Desmond Tutu

• Kim Jong Il

Was elected president of South Africa in 1989. He called for an end to apartheid and freed Nelson Mandela in 1990.

• F.W. De Klerk

• Desmond Tutu

• Nelson Mandela

• Kim Jong Un

The ethnic majority group in Rwanda that makes up 85% of the population.

• Khmer Rouge

• Sudan

• Hutus

• Serbs

A leader in the African National Congress who was imprisoned from 1964-1990. He became president of South Africa in 1994, after apartheid ended.

• Desmond Tutu

• F.W. De Klerk

• Nelson Mandela

• Aung San Suu Kyi

African country of ethnic conflict; Hutu extremists committed ethnic cleansing against the Tutsis

• Rwanda

• Sudan

• Darfur

• Bosnia

Country in Africa where the Arab speaking Muslim majority in the north persectuted the minority Christian groups in the south.

• Myanmar

• Darfur

• Sudan

• Bosnia