Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Anti Apartheid Movement |Local Authority Action Against Apartheid
Parallel form(s) of name
- LAAAA
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1960s-1995
History
As early as 1960 local authorities in Britain played a part in the international campaign against apartheid. A United Nations resolution in 1982 recognised this and following a conference held in Sheffield in March 1983 the National Steering Committee on Local Authority Action Against Apartheid (LAAA) was established to act in an advisory and co-ordinating capacity. It encouraged local authorities to adopt anti-apartheid policies including sports and cultural boycotts, disinvestment from the South African economy, purchasing policies avoiding South African goods and raising awareness about apartheid through education. In the 1990s councils were encouraged to develop links with communities in South Africa and the LAAAA sent an observer team to the South African elections in 1994.
Places
England, United Kingdom
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
GB 1847
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2003); Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names, National Council on Archives (1997).
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created by Julia Wylie, October 2016
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford . 2002. Catalogue of the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/aam.html#aam.O.7.2. [Accessed 17 October 2016].