Purpose of this report is to allow people to acknowledge the fact that rights and freedoms aren't applied to everybody in some countries, such as South Africa.

        Section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms deals with the actions of punishment and specifically states “Everyone has the right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.”  This right, also denied to the black people is cruelly acted out to them in prisons, where the guards have the power.  As seen in the movie, such punishment includes being beaten for no reason and being forced to eat fecies.  In the end, with all the torture acted out towards the victims, people can get murdered by the prison guards.          

        Section 15 (1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms deals with different types of discrimination and prejudice, specifically that “Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.”  This freedom basically explains itself by saying that everybody is equal under the law.  The white people who are living in South Africa believe the contrary because they are the ones in power.  All the punishments and discrimination towards the black people are acted out because of the fact that black people are not equal to the whites.  The blacks might realize this but they can’t do anything about it because hardly any of them have received any kind of education, another one of the freedoms taken away from them.  Blacks are discriminated because they are believed to be naturally slow so therefore, they can only hold down menial jobs such as serving other white people.  Also, as seen in the movie, the blacks unequally treated that in the sections that they live, only one washroom is built for every 200 people.

        In conclusion, none of this inequity would happen if the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms were put into place in South Africa.  Such rights such as mobility rights, the right not to receive cruel punishment, and equity rights would take place therefore resulting with fewer cases of violence or discrimination to blacks because they are a minority group.  We can just hope that the United Nations will take some course of action towards this injustice and control what is going on in South Africa.