Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Discrimination

The Human Rights Approach to Disability provides a thorough examination of issues relating to disability from a human rights perspective.

The book analyses how social theory concepts such as the social model of disability and disablism need to inform our interpretation of philosophical and legal principles, such as freedom and human dignity, which we need to apply in order to protect the rights of persons with disability. The book's analysis covers a range of human rights questions, which start even before birth and continue throughout the life journey of a person...

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...

The protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law. Depending on the group at stake, protection may be more or less advanced. In some cases, the international community has deemed it necessary to adopt conventions providing for the rights of certain vulnerable groups and establishing mechanisms to verify State compliance. Other groups have not been the focus of States standard-setting endeavours, but their protection still falls within the scope of human rights treaties of general application and the mandate of their respective monitoring bodies.

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The Modern Law of Employment offers a wide-ranging, accurate, authoritative, contemporary and readable guide to modern employment law for students of the subject whatever their course. Although primarily focused on the undergraduate LLB market this text, with its user friendly design, will still be relevant to, amongst others, business and human resources students who are taking an employment law module as part of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree or diploma.

This book provides a scholarly and thorough treatment of employment law principles. An essential element of the text...