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'''Saudi Arabia and the apartheid analogy''' is a comparison between [[Saudi Arabia]]'s treatment of minorities and foreigners and [[South Africa]]'s treatment of non-whites during its [[apartheid era]], or a comparison of the Saudi Sharia role of women with the concept of [[Gender apartheid]].

The analogy has been used by some scholars, [[United Nations]] investigators, and human rights groups

Opponents of the analogy claim that the comparison is factually

==History==
===Minorities and foreigners===

===Gender apartheid===

==Opinions==

===Analysis by ===


===Analysis by ===

==Crime of apartheid and Saudi Arabia==
{{See also|Crime of apartheid}}
In 1973 the [[International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid]] (ICSPCA) was adopted by the [[United Nations General Assembly]].<ref name="StJohn2007">{{cite web|title=Apartheid By Any Other Name|author=Ronald Bruce St John|publisher=[[Foreign Policy in Focus]]|date=1 February 2007|accessdate=26 April 2010|url=http://www.counterpunch.org/stjohn02022007.html|quote=In 1973, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.}}</ref> The ICSPCA defines the crime of apartheid as "inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group ... over another racial group ... and systematically oppressing them".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/3ae6b3c00.pdf|title=International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid|author=United Nations|date=30 November 2006|accessdate=25 April 2010|quote=For the purpose of the present Convention, the term 'the crime of apartheid', which shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa, shall apply to the following inhuman acts....}}</ref> In 2002 the crime of apartheid was further defined by Article 7 of the [[Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court]] as encompassing inhumane acts such as torture, murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, or persecution of an identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or other grounds, "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime".<ref>{{cite web|title=Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Part 2, Article 7|author=United Nations|year=2002|accessdate=26 April 2010|url=http://legal.un.org/icc/statute/english/rome_statute(e).pdf|pages=5–6|postscript=<!--None-->}}</ref>


==Saudi Sharia law==
Citizenship

===Political rights, voting and representation, judiciary===


===Local legislation===



===Land and infrastructure===

===Travel and movement===

===Saudi-Yemeni barrier===


==Education==


==Support for Saudi apartheid analogy==

===By notable authors===

===By United Nations officials===


===By neighboring countries===

===By Saudi citizens and residents===


===By notable academic, political and media figures===

===By South Africans===

====By the government of South Africa====

===By activists===


==Criticism of the apartheid analogy==


==Warnings that Saudi Arabia is to become an apartheid state in the future==


==See also==
{{Wikiquote}}
*[[Ethnoreligious group]]
*[[Human rights in Saudi Arabia]]
*[[Saudi–Yemen barrier]]
*[[Saudi Arabia-South Africa relations]]
*[[Racism in the Middle East]]
*[[Racism in Saudi Arabia]]

==References==
{{Reflist|colwidth=25em}}

==Further reading==
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{{refend}}

==External links==
===Endorse the Analogy===


===Counter the Analogy===


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