Nordic Equality And Anti Discrimination Laws In The Throes Of Change

Author : Anne Hellum,Ingunn Ikdahl,Vibeke Blaker Strand,Eva-Maria Svensson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000959468

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Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change by Anne Hellum,Ingunn Ikdahl,Vibeke Blaker Strand,Eva-Maria Svensson Pdf

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index –but they have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards substantive equality in four Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. It presents the Nordic gender equality model’s systematic use of three measures: overarching gender policies, legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations, and gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low-threshold enforcement systems. What potentials and limitations do the Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes have to combat individual discrimination and structural inequality? Can these regimes function as a driver of political, legal, economic, cultural, and social change and as a corrective to laws, policies, and practices that uphold existing inequalities and, if so, to what extent? Can weaknesses in the equality and anti-discrimination laws and the way they are enforced hamper efforts to close remaining gender gaps? Rather than looking at the Nordic gender equality laws and policies in isolation, the book situates their development and transformative potential within a changing European and international political and legal landscape.

Author : Maja Lundqvist,Angelica Simonsson,Kajsa Widegren
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447366539

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Re-Imagining Sexual Harassment by Maja Lundqvist,Angelica Simonsson,Kajsa Widegren Pdf

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The #MeToo movement sparked many debates and increased the demand for more problematised perspectives on the issue of sexual harassment. This book opens up new understandings of sexual harassment by bringing researchers, writers and policy makers in the Nordic region into dialogue within an ambitious volume. It asks what role juridical frameworks can and should play in prevention and raises questions about how the image of Nordic states – as gender equal, colour-blind and with strong welfare – affects the work against sexual harassment in the region. Re-imagining definitions of justice, violence, exploitation and work, this book offers knowledge of immediate importance for everyone working to prevent sexual harassment, through research, policy making or in everyday practice.

Author : Haldor Byrkjeflot,Lars Mjøset,Mads Mordhorst,Klaus Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000504033

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The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images by Haldor Byrkjeflot,Lars Mjøset,Mads Mordhorst,Klaus Petersen Pdf

This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. Providing original case studies, the book further examines how the Nordic models have been constructed, transformed and circulated in time and in space. It investigates the actors and channels that have been involved in circulating models: journalists and media, bureaucrats and policy-makers, international organizations, national politicians and institutions, scholars, public diplomats and analyses where and why models have travelled. Finally, the book shows that Nordic models, perspectives, or ideas do not always originate in the Nordic region, nor do they always develop as deliberate efforts to promote Nordic interests. This book will be of key interest to Nordic and Scandinavian studies, European studies, and more broadly to history, sociology, political science, marketing, social policy, organizational theory and public management. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : John Wadham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199576104

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Blackstone's Guide to the Equality Act 2010 by John Wadham Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Eva-Maria Svensson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351152303

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Nordic Equality at a Crossroads by Eva-Maria Svensson Pdf

Originally published in 2004. Nordic Equality at a Crossroads makes a major contribution to the debates on equality and difference in contemporary Europe. In this absorbing work, feminist legal scholars from four Nordic countries provide a critical account of the latest legal policies in these countries linked with gender (in)equality, such as public financing of children's homecare, regulation of the labour market towards substantive equality, and the reforms concerning violence against women. These issues are matters of concern everywhere in Europe, and the solutions adopted in the Nordic countries will be of interest to all policy-makers. The increasing multiculturalism and the shift toward greater market orientation, however, have challenged the traditional Nordic equality policies. The authors argue that a structural and contextual analysis of inequality, also in the field of law, is necessary to encounter the challenge of pluralism.

Author : Julie Ballington,Azza M. Karam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : UCSC:32106019104725

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Women in Parliament by Julie Ballington,Azza M. Karam Pdf

This updated edition of Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers Handbook covers the ground of women's access to the legislature in three steps: It looks into the obstacles women confront when entering Parliament be they political, socio-economic or ideological and psychological. It presents solutions to overcome these obstacles, such as changing electoral systems and introducing quotas, and it details strategies for women to influence politics once they are elected to parliament, an institution which is traditionally male dominated. The first Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers handbook was produced as part of IDEA's work on women and political participation in 1998. Since its release in English in 1998, there has been an ongoing interest and demand for the handbook, and responding to the request for the translation of the handbook, IDEA has produced Spanish, French and Indonesian language versions and a Russian overview of the handbook during 2002-2003. Since the first handbook was published, the picture regarding women's political participation has slowly changed. Overall the past decade has seen gradual progress with regard to women's presence in national parliaments. This second edition incorporates relevant global changes in the past years presenting new and updated case studies.--

Author : Frank Conrad Pinch,Institut de leadership des Forces canadiennes (Kingston, Ont.).,Canadian Forces Leadership Institute
Publisher : Canadian Forces Leadership Institute,Canadian Defence Academy
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : 066239996X

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Challenge and Change in the Military by Frank Conrad Pinch,Institut de leadership des Forces canadiennes (Kingston, Ont.).,Canadian Forces Leadership Institute Pdf

Author : James Gustave Speth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300184686

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America the Possible by James Gustave Speth Pdf

In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we can still realize. The book identifies a dozen features of the American political economy--the country's basic operating system--where transformative change is essential. It spells out the specific changes that are needed to move toward a new political economy--one in which the true priority is to sustain people and planet. Supported by a compelling "theory of change" that explains how system change can come to America, the book also presents a vision of political, social, and economic life in a renewed America. Speth envisions a future that will be well worth fighting for. In short, this is a book about the American future and the strong possibility that we yet have it in ourselves to use our freedom and our democracy in powerful ways to create something fine, a reborn America, for our children and grandchildren.

Author : Michael Booth
Publisher : Picador
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781250061973

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The Almost Nearly Perfect People by Michael Booth Pdf

NAMED THE #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, A WITTY, INFORMATIVE, AND POPULAR TRAVELOGUE ABOUT THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES AND HOW THEY MAY NOT BE AS HAPPY OR AS PERFECT AS WE ASSUME Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another. Why are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders as feral as they sometimes appear? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastic oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes? In The Almost Nearly Perfect People Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are, and he explores why these societies have become so successful and models for the world. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterized by suffocating parochialism, and populated by extremists of various shades. They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isn't easy being Scandinavian.

Author : Marc Weller,Mark Retter,Andrea Varga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108498043

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International Law and Peace Settlements by Marc Weller,Mark Retter,Andrea Varga Pdf

Author : European Commission for Democracy through Law
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9287166781

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Blasphemy, Insult and Hatred by European Commission for Democracy through Law Pdf

Mutual understanding and acceptance is perhaps the main challenge of modern society. Diversity is undoubtedly an asset, but cohabiting with people of different backgrounds and ideals calls for a new ethic of responsible intercultural relations, in Europe and in the World. This book tries to answer a series of pertinent and poignant questions arising from these issues, such as whether it is still possible to criticise ideas when this may be considered hurtful to certain religious feelings; whether society is hostage to the excessive sensitivity of certain individuals; or what legal responses there may be to these phenomena, and whether criminal law is the only answer.

Author : Jan Klabbers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108842204

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An Introduction to International Organizations Law by Jan Klabbers Pdf

Provides a framework for understanding how organizations are set up and the logic behind international organizations law.

Author : Rebecca Adami,Dan Plesch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000418828

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Women and the UN by Rebecca Adami,Dan Plesch Pdf

This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to the international human rights of women throughout the world today. From the founding of the UN up until the Latin American feminist movements that pushed for gender equality in the UN Charter, and the Security Council Resolutions on the role of women in peace and conflict, the volume reflects on how women delegates from different parts of the world have negotiated and disagreed on human rights issues related to gender within the UN throughout time. In doing so it sheds new light on how these hidden historical narratives enrich theoretical studies in international relations and global agency today. In view of contemporary feminist and postmodern critiques of the origin of human rights, uncovering women’s history of the United Nations from both Southern and Western perspectives allows us to consider questions of feminism and agency in international relations afresh. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners of law, diplomacy, history, and development studies, and brought together by a theoretical commentary by the Editors, Women and the UN will appeal to anyone whose research covers human rights, gender equality, international development, or the history of civil society. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003036708, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : David Natali (OSE),Bart Vanhercke (OSE)
Publisher : ETUI
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9782874523748

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Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2015 by David Natali (OSE),Bart Vanhercke (OSE) Pdf

The sixteenth edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play has a triple ambition. First, it provides easily accessible information to a wide audience about recent developments in both EU and domestic social policymaking. Second, the volume provides a more analytical reading, embedding the key developments of the year 2014 in the most recent academic discourses. Third, the forward-looking perspective of the book aims to provide stakeholders and policymakers with specific tools that allow them to discern new opportunities to influence policymaking. In this 2015 edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play, the authors tackle the topics of the state of EU politics after the parliamentary elections, the socialisation of the European Semester, methods of political protest, the Juncker investment plan, the EU’s contradictory education investment, the EU’s contested influence on national healthcare reforms, and the neoliberal Trojan Horse of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Author : Gorm Winther
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 9789289320160

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The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development: Introduction to the Project and The First Volume of The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development (POENOR) by Gorm Winther Pdf

"Nordic co-operation is one of the world's most extensive forms of regional collaboration, involv-ing Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and three autonomous areas: the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland.