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...rallies that have put the university on notice that recent racial incidents cannot go unpunished. "The issues have been burning for years," she says. "We'll take to the streets, do whatever it takes, any means it takes." For her efforts, she has found threats in the mail and MANDELA-LUCKETT, RIP scrawled on the walls...
Despite the waves of liberalization that have swept across the world in the past year, thousands of political prisoners still sit in cells from Singapore to Syria. Some have been there for more than 27 years, the time served by South Africa's Nelson Mandela, the world's most famous detainee until his release in February. Among the longest-serving political prisoners...
...instant communications, when the freeing of Mandela is viewed by millions of people, public pressure can influence some repressive regimes. Human-rights activists believe Singapore improved the conditions of Chia Thye Poh's confinement out of fear that when South Africa released Mandela, world attention would focus on the remaining long-termers. Still, other governments seem impervious to criticism. "Each country is a separate case," notes Richard Reoch, information director of London-based Amnesty International. There are limits too to how hard foreign governments will press allies on human-rights issues. The U.S., for example, remained mute over the February...
...case for divestment is still as strong as ever. Despite some superficial reforms, such as the recent release of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, the oppressive apparatus of apartheid remains intact. Support for divestment and corporate withdrawal is still almost universal among Black South African leaders. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, recently advised the Board that divestment remains the most powerful instrument for bringing about real reforms in the apartheid system...
Three million years ago, humanity was born in East Africa. Last February it was reborn in South Africa. More than one man was liberated when Nelson Mandela stepped into the sunlight; an entire nation appealed for release from the prison of apartheid...