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Apartheid – described by Nelson Mandela as an ‘evil system’ – is thought by many to have ended in 1994 when twenty million South Africans voted in the country’s first free and fair elections.
Not so, according to the Institute of Directors – which has just released a report exploring pensions apartheid, a system which sees some British public sector workers get higher retirement benefits than their private sector equivalents. This, the business lobby group believes, is analogous to decades of black African racial segregation, discrimination and abuse.
Some ideas for future IOD publications:
- Shoah – gassing small business with regulation
- Gang Raped by Government – changes to the tax code for non-domiciled high net worth individuals, and
- 9/11 – terrorized by the European Working Time Directive
After all, when surrounded by evil, you have a duty to speak out.
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David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
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