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Allegations of apartheid have been made, informally, against societies beyond South Africa in the years since the international condemnation of the now dismantled South African apartheid system. Activists and political theorists have used the term "apartheid" to describe other perceived social or political discrimination.

The term apartheid has been used in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to allege systematic discrimination against Palestinians by Israel; see allegations of Israeli apartheid. In France the word apartheid has been used to describe the social situation in the French suburbs where Arab immigrants are not integrated with the general French population and live with inferior social services and housing. Social apartheid in Brazil has been used to describe the social segregation of the poor (who are mostly dark-skinned) from wealthier classes.

Other countries whose practices have been compared to apartheid include Australia for its White Australia policy and treatment of aborigines, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada for its treatment of native peoples, the People's Republic of China in regards to the Hukou pass system for peasant population, as well as Tibet. Cuba has been accused of practicing tourist apartheid, India for its caste system which has been described as a "hidden apartheid," Jordan for its nationality law which excludes Jews from citizenship and its two-tiered citizenship system in general, New Zealand for allegedly giving preferential treatment to Maoris, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, the Baltic states of the former Soviet Union, the Crimea, Sri Lanka, as well as the proposed state of Tamil Eelam, and the United Kingdom.

Muslim countries accused of gender apartheid (see below) include Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia.

Countries whose practices have been compared to apartheid

See also

References

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  2. "The truth is that certain French citizens are treated as second-class citizens, if not the leprous members of the national community. Their children are sent to ghetto schools and taught by inexperienced teachers, they are crammed into inhumane public housing developments, and they are confronted with an essentially closed job market. In short, they live in a bleak, devastated universe. France is disintegrating before our eyes into socio-economic communities, into territorial and social apartheid. The rich live in their own ghettos. Institutionalized racism is a daily reality." Follath, Erich. Tariq Ramadan on the crisis in France, Salon.com, November 16, 2005.
  3. Ladle, Jane. Insight Guides: Brazil, American Map, 1999, p. 76.
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  6. Steele, JonathanToday's Bosnia: a dependent, stifled, apartheid regime. The Guardian, November 11, 2005.
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  11. ° "One of the most disconcerting aspects of contemporary Cuba is the government's creation of exclusive 'foreigner-only' tourism zones where Cuban nationals aren't welcome. Effectively, there are two Cubas, a reality that reeks of something akin to tourism apartheid, as many observers have noted.", Frommer's Travel Guide to Cuba, 2006. Retrieved July 10, 2006.
  12. http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_09/uk/doss22.htm
  14. Davis, Uri (1997). Citizenship and the State: A Comparative Study of Citizenship Legislation in Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. Garnet & Ithaca Press. p. 7. ISBN 0863722180.
  15. "In the 1950s and 1960s the National government occasionally talked of abolishing the Maori seats. Some politicians described special representation as a form of 'apartheid', like in South Africa." , Elections New Zealand website, April 9 2005. Retrieved November 3, 2006.
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  20. Template:Ru icon Apartheid in Latvia (1996)
  21. Template:Ru icon Apartheid with Baltic flavor (2004)
  22. Template:Ru icon Latvia discontinues Russian language education in schools (2003)
  23. Template:Ru icon "Soft Apartheid" is flourishing in Crimea (2006)
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  29. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4784784.stm
  30. "In 'From the Valley of the Chador,' Jan Goodwin (1994) discusses 'gender apartheid' in Saudi Arabia, unmasking a phenomenon that, she argues, has long been thought of as a 'personal problem' and revealing it to be a political issue that deserves attention from the international human rights community." Hanigsberg (1997), p. 76.
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