Discrimination and Human Rights The Case of Racism

This set of essays looks at the role of human rights law in combating racism. Topics covered include the right to equality in the context of racism; multi-culturalism, ethnicity, and group rights; international instruments to address racism, including EU directives; and the problem of race hatred on the Internet.

This set of essays provides and important contribution to the debate about the role of human rights law in combating racism. The first essay examines the right to equality in the context of racism, drawing on a wide range of international and comparative sources to create a critical framework of analysis. The second essay locates the discussion within the context of multi-culturalism, ethnicity, and group rights, with specific reference to ethnicity within Europe. The next set of essays is concerned with international istruments to address racism, followed by a critical examination of the newly developed race discrimination directive at EU level. The particular problem of race hatred on the internet is examined in the seventh chapter, followed by an important discussion of enforcement and remedial structures.

1 - Combatting Racism with Human Rights: The Right to Equality
2 - Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, and Group Rights
3 - Discrimination and Human Rights Law
4 - A Critical Evaluation of International Human Rights Approaches to Racism
5 - Thje European Union and Postnational Responses to Racial Identities
6 - The Internet: A New Horizon for Race Hatred?
7 - Enforcement and Remedial Structures: International Norms and National Institutions

Sandra Fredman is Professor or Discrimination Law at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College Philip Alston is Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence