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Stereotypes and Human Rights Law
. Ed(S): Brems, Eva; Timmer, Alexandra
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Paperback. . This volume is the first one to broadly analyse stereotypes as a human rights issue. The scope of the book includes different stereotyping grounds - such as race, gender, and disability. Moreover, this book examines stereotyping approaches across a broad range of supranational human rights monitoring bodies. Editor(s): Brems, Eva; Timmer, Alexandra. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160. Weight in Grams: 600.
Stereotypes are beliefs about groups of people. Some examples, taken from human rights case law, are the notions that 'Roma are thieves', 'women are responsible for childcare', and 'people with a mental disability are incapable of forming political opinions'. Increasingly, human rights monitoring bodies including the European and inter-American human rights courts, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination voice concerns about stereotyping and warn States not to enforce harmful stereotypes. Human rights bodies thus appear to be starting to realise what social psychologists discovered a long ... Read more
Stereotypes are beliefs about groups of people. Some examples, taken from human rights case law, are the notions that 'Roma are thieves', 'women are responsible for childcare', and 'people with a mental disability are incapable of forming political opinions'. Increasingly, human rights monitoring bodies including the European and inter-American human rights courts, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination voice concerns about stereotyping and warn States not to enforce harmful stereotypes. Human rights bodies thus appear to be starting to realise what social psychologists discovered a long ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Intersentia Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780683683
SKU
V9781780683683
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