South Africa

Abstract

Disputes over domestic jurisdiction did not occur only over colonial questions. They occurred sometimes over civil conflicts, where the local government claimed a conflict was purely internal while others said it had international implications, as over Kashmir or Alto Adige. They occurred over a large number of human rights issues, as over the complaints of violations of human rights in East Europe raised by the Western powers. But they occurred in their starkest form over an issue which had something in common with each of these and which was to remain with the UN for forty years or more. This was the question of the racial policies of the South African Government.