Legislating for Equality: A Multinational Collection of Non-Discrimination Norms. Volume I: Europe - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004226125 ISBN 13: 9789004226128

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012

Synopsis

This unique collection offers a survey of legal and legislative means to combat racism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and other forms of related intolerance. Its aim is threefold: 1) to provide a legal model for fighting racism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and discrimination through domestic legislation; 2) to compare existing national legislation with international legal instruments designed to combat racial and other forms of discrimination, in order to bring domestic laws into line with international legal norms; 3) to provide a tool for researchers, legislators, human rights activists and all those who work to protect the rights of minorities and victims of incitement and discrimination, as well as for domestic and international institutions, which monitor compliance with these laws. The survey thus constitutes a major contribution to the study of racism and anti-semitism because it demonstrates how these phenomena can be fought through the medium of the law. Each volume consists of two sections: the first, containing international conventions; the second, and main section, containing current constitutional law, specific legislation and ratification of international conventions in (over 200) individual states. Volume 1 deals with Europe; Volume 2 with the Americas; Volume 3 with Africa and Volume 4 with Asia and the South Pacific.

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About the Author

Talia Naamat, LL.B, Adv. (2005, Bar Ilan University) is a legal researcher in the field of comparative human-rights law at the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry.

Nina Osin, Doctor of Law and Social Sciences (1956, University of Uruguay) and a Master degree in Library Science and Communications (1976, University of Michigan). She co-edited Legislating against Discrimination – An International Survey of Anti-Discrimination Norms (2005)

Dina Porat, Ph.D (1984) in History, is the Head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, incumbent of the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Racism and Antisemitism at Tel-Aviv University and chief historian of Yad Vashem. She has published many books and articles, the most recent of which is "The Fall of a Sparrow –The Life and Times of Abba Kovner" (Stanford UP, 2009), a 2010 National Jewish Book Award winner.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004226125
• ISBN 13: 9789004226128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Naamat Talia, Osin Nina, Porat Dina