Stereotypes and human rights law
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'. Increasing...
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Cambridge
Intersentia
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Building momentum towards change : how the UN's response to stereotyping is evolving / Simone Cusack
- Gender stereotyping in domestic violence cases : an analysis of the European Court of Human Rights' jurisprudence / Lourdes Peroni and Alexandra Timmer
- Gender sterotyping in the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights / Verónica Undurraga
- "My sense of humanity has gone down the drain" : stereotypes, stigma and sanism / Michael Perlin
- Racial stereotypes and human rights / Mathias Möschel
- The head of the woman is the man : the failure to address gender stereotypes in the legal procedures around the Dutch SGP / Rikki Holtmaat
- Gender stereotyping in the military : insights from court cases / Rebecca Cook and Cornelia Weiss