Discrimination category: 2581 books
Race Matters
An International Legal Analysis of Race Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Exploring the key legal issues in combating race discrimination, Race Matters provides readers with a detailed understanding of the issue of inequality. At its heart is an aim to increase the likelihood of achieving racial equality at both the national and international levels - in so doing it examines...
The Light-Skin Trigger
The Black Woman's ''Kryptonite''
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
The Nonsagacious Saga of the Fourth Monkey
President Reagan was reportedly born in 1911. He had plenty of time to read about the outrages committed against black people during his lifetime and afterward. Either he didnt read the papers between then and now or he chose to ignore what he read....
Guinea Pigs of the New World Order
Blackman the Endangered Breed
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The author believes that those labelled as blacks in the world are the greatest victims of racial discrimination and will be highly victimised as the New World Government takes full force. According to the author, racism is not a problem as humans seem to have evolved with some seemingly physical...
by William Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
He had two problems. The first included a number of factors: He was black, he was creative, he was intelligent and he was opinionated. The second: He wanted to do his job and advance at the GVB—the Amsterdam municipal public transport company. But it would and could not happen, apparently. Although...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Diversity in the workforce can be attributed to both a popular, cultural shift and legislative intervention. Despite these forces, discrimination endures in all aspects of Western society from education to employment. Unequal pay and opportunities for promotion are symptoms of a systematic discrimination...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In order to protect and defend citizens, the foundational concepts of fairness and equality must be adhered to within any criminal justice system. When this is not the case, accountability of authorities should be pursued to maintain the integrity and pursuit of justice. Police Brutality, Racial Profiling,...
The Judiciary, Discrimination Law and Statutory Interpretation
Easy Cases Making Bad Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Court, when the Constitution was drafted, some 60 years earlier, its authors would not have intended that ‘a subordinate and inferior class of beings’...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Everyday in Europe, people associated with Roma or Traveller communities are exposed to acts of discrimination and exclusion on a scale that has stopped shocking people and institutions. Too often, it is only when lives are claimed that we wake up to the persistence of realities that have no place...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these encounters.
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by Balmurli Natrajan, Paul Greenough
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historical barriers still inhibit comparative frameworks to map and challenge two of the most odious forms of discrimination―racism and casteism. Both justify themselves on a principle of biological descent; they enable stigma as if it were a natural fact, refusing to see it as deleterious social...
Avoiding Workplace Discrimination
A Guide for Employers and Employees
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Your workplace safety includes a commitment to be free from discrimination, harassment and wrongful conduct. But this is no easy feat to achieve. Many companies take this area lightly and many employees are unaware of their rights. This book by a leading workplace legal expert is a step-by-step guide...
The Right to Equality in European Human Rights Law
The Quest for Substance in the Jurisprudence of the European Courts
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
A right to equality and non-discrimination is widely seen as fundamental in democratic legal systems. But failure to identify the human interest that equality aims to uphold reinforces the argument of those who attack it as morally empty or unsubstantiated and weakens its status as a fundamental human...
Shortchanged
Height Discrimination and Strategies for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Would you like to be taller? Many people—except very tall people—would likely answer yes. Why should this be the case, when height has nothing to do with intelligence, talent, fortitude, compassion, or indeed any of the factors that make us human? In her thoughtful and provocative book, Tanya...
Child Rights and International Discrimination Law
Implementing Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected. Children´s new position and their strong rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between family and the state. The United Nations Convention on the Rights...