This book will examine the legal regulation of caste discrimination in three key legal spheres: in India (the world's largest caste-affected country and the country with the greatest experience of using law to tackle such discrimination); in international human rights law; and in Britain, the first European country to introduce a prohibition of caste discrimination in domestic equality law.
Caste prejudice and discrimination affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, depriving men, women and children of their economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights and...
This book will examine the legal regulation of caste discrimination in three key legal spheres: in India (the world's largest caste-affected countr...
This is the very first edited collection on ICERD, the oldest of the UN human rights treaties. It provides a unique combination of members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and academic and other experts, to discuss the importance of the treaty on its fiftieth anniversary. -- .
This is the very first edited collection on ICERD, the oldest of the UN human rights treaties. It provides a unique combination of members of the Comm...