The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act in South Africa, enacted in 1949, banned intermarriage between different racial groups, including between whites and non-whites.

Interracial marriages had been banned in 1949 by the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

The Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act, 1985 ( Act No. 72 of 1985 ) repealed the provisions of the 1957 act that prohibited interracial sex, and repealed the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

Apartheid laws passed by the National Party after 1948 included the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Act, The Population Registration Act, and the Group Areas Act, which prohibited nonwhite males from being in certain areas of the country ( especially at night ) unless they were employed there.

When he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, Yolande, he was not allowed to return: The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act ( 1949 ) and The Immorality Act ( 1950 ) made it a criminal offence for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949, was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act of 1968 updated the original legislation to invalidate interracial marriages involving a South African citizen that were contracted in other countries.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was repealed by the Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act of 1985, which was passed during the presidency of P. W. Botha.

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Under the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, it was illegal for a white person to marry a person of another race.

The group's only previous contact with other parties had been in 1985 when it briefly co-operated with the Conservative Party to oppose the repeal of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and the Immorality Amendment Act by P. W.

* 1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.

In the UK, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure in Britain itself, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents.

The Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989, proscribes words or behaviours which are " threatening, abusive or insulting and are intended or, having regard to all the circumstances, are likely to stir up hatred " against " a group of persons in the State or elsewhere on account of their race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, membership of the travelling community or sexual orientation.

* 1919 – The U. S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919, which prohibited the "... manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States ..." Congress passed the " Volstead Act " on October 28, 1919, to enforce the law, but most large cities were uninterested in enforcing the legislation, leaving an understaffed federal service to go after bootleggers.

However, Purity Distilling did not make rum, but rather specialized in the production of industrial alcohol, which was exempt from the state prohibition laws in effect in 1919, and would later be exempted from the Volstead Act and other national Prohibition laws.

To define the language used in the Amendment, Congress enacted enabling legislation called the National Prohibition Act, better known as the Volstead Act, on October 28, 1919.

* October 28 – Prohibition in the United States is authorized: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States.

Congress passed the Blaine Act, a proposed constitutional amendment to repeal Prohibition, in February.

They include Bombay Devdasi Act, 1934, Devdasi ( Prevention of dedication ) Madras Act, 1947, Karnataka Devdasi ( Prohibition of dedication ) Act, 1982, and Andhra Pradesh Devdasi ( Prohibition of dedication ) Act, 1988.

* 1933 – Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3. 2 % alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

The Environmental Modification Convention ( ENMOD ), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques is an international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques.

* 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

Detroit was ( and still is ) the largest city bordering Canada, where alcohol remained legal during Prohibition.

Father Christmas-The Chicago Years, Father Christmas is shown to be heavily involved in gangland Chicago during the Prohibition era.

# Prohibition of eating flesh taken from an animal while it is still alive

Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages.

* The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is founded to promote repeal of prohibition in the U. S.

* The Intercollegiate Prohibition Association is established in Chicago.

* January 16 – The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition, is ratified.

* April 5 – Prohibition is lifted in Finland at 10 in the morning ( local time ), resulting in a new mnemonic " 543210 ".

* The Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition is established for the repeal of prohibition in the U. S.

* The Prohibition National Committee is formed in the United States.

** Beer is legalized in the United States, eight months before the full repeal of Prohibition in December.

* December 5 – The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, repealing Prohibition.

* April 22 – At a special session of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Director-General Jose Bustani is fired.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ) is an intergovernmental organization, located in The Hague, Netherlands.

# Prohibition of Third Party Standing: A party may only assert his or her own rights and cannot raise the claims of a third party who is not before the court ; exceptions exist where the third party has interchangeable economic interests with the injured party, or a person unprotected by a particular law sues to challenge the oversweeping of the law into the rights of others.

# Prohibition of Generalized Grievances: A plaintiff cannot sue if the injury is widely shared in an undifferentiated way with many people.

The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the first use of chemical and biological weapons.

Its full name is the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction.

The agreement is administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ), which is an independent organization based in The Hague, Netherlands.