| Description | | - Leading authors from all over Europe make a key contribution to the debate on racism and human rights
- A key contribution to the debate in preparation for and in the aftermath of the UN conference on racism in 2001
- An important resource for students, researchers, and policy-makers ranging over a wide area of comparative and international law not otherwise readily accessible
- Includes clear and lively analysis of the new race equality Directive adopted by the EU in June 2000 and the functioning of international instruments against racism
| | This set of essays provides and important contribution to the debate about the role of human rights law in combating racism. The first essay examines the right to equality in the context of racism, drawing on a wide range of international and comparative sources to create a critical framework of analysis. The second essay locates the discussion within the context of multi-culturalism,
ethnicity, and group rights, with specific reference to ethnicity within Europe. The next set of essays is concerned with international istruments to address racism, followed by a critical examination of the newly developed race discrimination directive at EU level. The particular problem of race hatred on the internet is examined in the seventh chapter, followed by an important discussion of
enforcement and remedial structures. |
Readership: Undergraduates and graduate students, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in human rights law, public international law, and discrimination law.
| Contents |
1.
Combatting Racism with Human Rights: The Right to Equality
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Sandra Fredman
2.
Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, and Group Rights
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Dmitrina Petrova
3.
Discrimination and Human Rights Law
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Theo van Boven
4.
A Critical Evaluation of International Human Rights Approaches to Racism
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Kevin Boyle
5.
The European Union and Postnational Responses to Racial Identities
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Damian Chalmers
6.
The Internet: A New Horizon for Race Hatred?
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Marisa Fernandez Esteban
7.
Enforcement and Remedial Structures: International Norms and National Institutions
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Christopher McCrudden
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Sandra Fredman, Professor of Discrimination Law at Oxford University and Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford,
Philip Alston, Professor of International Law, European University Institute, Florence, and
Gráinne de Búrca, Professor, European University Institute, Florence
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