Essentially Equality

Author : Camilla Barker
Publisher : Camilla Barker
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781456519056

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Essentially Equality by Camilla Barker Pdf

This study critically examines the extent to which international legal protection is afforded to sexual minorities. The author assesses definitional elements of sexual minorities and international legal protection, and looks at international measures such as the many United Nations instruments, regional and national instruments such as the European Convention on Human Rights and other measures such as the Yogyakarta Principles and the Brazilian Resolution. It is through these analyses that the author constructively assesses where the strengths and weaknesses of current legal provision are, and identifies recommendations for future legal reform.

Author : Johan Rabe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : 9783831128327

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Equality, Affirmative Action and Justice by Johan Rabe Pdf

Author : Anthoula Malkopoulou,Lisa Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351620505

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Equality and Representation by Anthoula Malkopoulou,Lisa Hill Pdf

This volume is primarily concerned with equality as a basic component of the democratic character of representation. In other words, of the many types of equality that have attracted the attention of theorists since democracy’s beginnings – arithmetic equality, equality before the law, equality of opportunity– we would like to draw attention to representational equality, that is, the role of equality in systems of democratic representation. In what form is equality present in traditional forms of electoral representation? How can it be secured in new forms of representation, such as claims-making, deliberative, klerotarian and epistemic representation? And to what extent are electoral or non-electoral models of representation able to accommodate increasing social inequalities? The articles in this volume discuss these issues from a normative and conceptual point of view, seeking to shed new light on the important but under-explored relationship between equality and representation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Author : Thomas Giegerich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030437640

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The European Union as Protector and Promoter of Equality by Thomas Giegerich Pdf

This book considers the European Union as a project with a major antidiscrimination goal, which is important to remember at a time of increasing resentment against particularly exposed groups, especially migrants, refugees, members of ethnic or religious minorities and LGBTI persons. While equality and non-discrimination have long been core principles of the international community as a whole, as is made obvious by the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, they have shaped European integration in a particular way. The concepts of diversity, pluralism and equality have always been inherent in that process, the EU being virtually founded on the values of equality and non-discrimination. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU contains the most modern and extensive catalogue of prohibited grounds of discrimination, supplementing the catalogue enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. EU law has given new impulses to antidiscrimination law both within Europe and beyond. The contributions to this book focus on how effective and credible the EU has been in combatting discrimination inside and outside Europe. The authors present different (mostly legal) aspects of that topic and examine them from various intra- and extra-European angles.

Author : Devin J. Vartija
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812253191

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The Color of Equality by Devin J. Vartija Pdf

Enlightenment thinkers bequeathed a paradoxical legacy to the modern world: they expanded the purview of equality while simultaneously inventing the modern concept of race. The Color of Equality makes sense of this tension by demonstrating that the same Enlightenment impulse—the naturalization of humanity—underlay both of these trends.

Author : Samuel Scheffler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199899579

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Equality and Tradition by Samuel Scheffler Pdf

This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies. In addition to chapters on more abstract issues such as the nature of human valuing, the role of partiality in ethics, and the significance of the distinction between doing and allowing, the volume also includes essays on immigration, terrorism, toleration, political equality, and the normative significance of tradition. Uniting the essays is a shared preoccupation with questions about human value and values. The volume opens with an essay that considers the general question of what it is to value something - as opposed, say, to wanting it, wanting to want it, or thinking that it is valuable. Other essays explore particular values, such as equality, whose meaning and content are contested. Still others consider the tensions that arise, both within and among individuals, in consequence of the diversity of human values. One of the overarching aims of the book is to illuminate the different ways in which liberal political theory attempts to resolve conflicts of both of these kinds.

Author : Nelson Tebbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351551618

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Religion and Equality Law by Nelson Tebbe Pdf

The essays selected for this volume address topics at the intersection of religion and equality law, including discrimination against religion, discrimination by religious actors and discrimination in favor of religious groups and traditions. The introduction provides a conceptual guide to these types of inequality - which are often misunderstood or conflated - and it offers an analysis of different species of discrimination within each broad category. Each section of the volume contains both theoretical essays, which set out frameworks for thinking about the relevant type of inequality, and essays that examine real-world disputes. For example, the articles address the conflicts over headscarf laws in France and Turkey, the place of so-called traditional religions in Africa, the display of Roman Catholic crucifixes in Italian classrooms, and the ability of American religious organizations to be free of employment laws in their treatment of clergy. This volume brings together classic articles which are otherwise difficult to access, enables students to study key articles side-by-side, and provides instructors with a valuable teaching resource.

Author : Man Yee Karen Lee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004179264

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Equality, Dignity, and Same-Sex Marriage by Man Yee Karen Lee Pdf

Om udviklingen i homoseksuelles rettigheder på det ægteskabsretlige område i internationalt perspektiv.

Author : Antony Flew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351311540

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Equality in Liberty and Justice by Antony Flew Pdf

Equality in Liberty and Justice is an integrated collection of essays in political philosophy, divided into two parts. The first examines (classically) liberal ideas-the ideas of the Founding Fathers of the American republic-and some of the applications and the rejections of such ideas in our contemporary world. Among other questions about liberty and responsibility it considers, in the context of the imprisonment and psychiatric treatment of dissidents in the psychiatric hospitals of the former Soviet Union, Plato's suggestion that all delinquency is an expression of mental disease.The second part examines the relations and the lack of relations between old fashioned, without prefix or suffix, justice and what is called by its promoters social justice. It therefore presses such questions as "Equal outcomes or equal justice?" and "Enemies of poverty or of inequality?"Equality in Liberty and Justice was originally published before the winning of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire. This second edition updates the arguments of the previous editor and draws present day moral conclusions. This book will appeal to those for whom the classical liberal and conservative debates still have great meaning. Flew might well be the most significant sunthesizer of Tocqueville and Mill.

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2056 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317459712

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Social Issues in America by James Ciment Pdf

More than 150 key social issues confronting the United States today are covered in this eight-volume set: from abortion and adoption to capital punishment and corporate crime; from obesity and organized crime to sweatshops and xenophobia.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045277634

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The Financial Aspects of Equality of Educational Opportunity, and Inequities in School Finance by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity Pdf

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556356636

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Friends of Religious Equality by Timothy Larsen Pdf

During the middle decades of the nineteenth century the English Nonconformist community developed a coherent political philosophy of its own, of which a central tenet was the principle of religious equality (in contrast to the stereotype of Evangelical Dissenters). The Dissenting community fought for the civil rights of Roman Catholics, non-Christians, and even atheists, on an issue of principle that had its flowering in the enthusiastic and undivided support that Nonconformity gave to the campaign for Jewish emancipation. This study examines the political efforts and ideas of English Nonconformists during the period, covering the whole range of national issues raised, from state education to the Crimean War. It offers a case study of a theologically conservative group defending religious pluralism in the civic sphere, showing the that concept of religious equality was a grand vision at the center of the political philosophy of the Dissenters.

Author : Derval Conroy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000348941

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Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France by Derval Conroy Pdf

This volume sets out to examine the ways in which an equality between the sexes is constructed, conceptualised, imagined or realised in early modern France, a period and a country which produced some of the earliest theorisations on equality. In so doing, it aims to contribute towards the development of the history of equality as an intellectual category within the history of political thought, and to situate "the woman question" within that history. The eleven chapters in the volume span the fields of political theory, philosophy, literature, history and history of ideas, bringing together literary scholars, historians, philosophers and scholars of political thought, and examining an extensive range of primary sources. Whilst most of the chapters focus on the conceptualisation of a moral, metaphysical or intellectual equality between the sexes, space is also given to concrete examples of a de facto gender equality in operation. The volume is aimed at scholars and graduate students of political thought, history of philosophy, women’s history and gender studies alike. It aims to throw light on the history of Western ideas of equality and difference, questions which continue to preoccupy cultural historians, philosophers, political theorists and feminist critics.

Author : Kirsten Edwards
Publisher : Cavendish Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781843141075

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Essential Equity and Trusts by Kirsten Edwards Pdf

Essential Australian Equity and Trustsprovides a clear and concise guide to the key elements in the law syllabus. The book is written specifically for law students, primarily at undergraduate level, but it will also be helpful to students studying law as part of their course.

Author : Matt Cavanagh
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191584046

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Against Equality of Opportunity by Matt Cavanagh Pdf

Against Equality of Opportunity deals with the ways in which opportunities - education, jobs and other things which affect how people get on in life - are distributed. Take jobs: should the best person always get the job? Or should everyone be given an equal 'life chance'? Or can we somehow combine these two ideas, saying that the best person should always get the job, but that everyone should have an equal chance to become the best? These seem to be the standard views, but this book argues that they are all flawed. We need to understand meritocracy for what it is - a technical rather than a moral ideal; and we need to accept that equality just isn't something we should be striving for at all in this area. We also need to rethink our approach to the related issue of discrimination. We tend to assume discrimination is wrong because it violates either meritocracy or equality, when in fact it is wrong for quite different reasons. In all these areas, then, Cavanagh aims to loosen the grip of established ways of thinking, in order that other ideas might find room to breathe. This is particularly important in the case of meritocracy, which after the recent conversion of the centre-left now dominates the debate more than ever. This book will be of interest to students and teachers of political philosophy, but ultimately it is aimed at anyone who cares about the fundamental values that lie behind the way society is organized. Though the argument is rigorous, it does not require a professional philosophical training to follow it.