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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 time ago: that stereotypes underlie inequality and discrimination. Despite their relevance and their legal momentum, however, stereotypes have so far received little attention from human rights law scholars. 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, including the United Nations human rights treaty system as well as the regional systems that are most developed when it comes to addressing stereotypes: the Council of Europe and the inter-American system

The nexus between human rights and development from international and Ethiopian perspectives /Eva Brems, Christophe van der Beken and Solomon Abay Yimer --The right to development --The right to development in Africa /Koen de Feyter --Human rights and development in Africa : assessing COMESA's experience /Adolphe Kilomba Sumaili --The right to development in Ethiopia /Abdi Jibril Ali --Development as a threat to human rights --Ethiopia : development with or without freedom? /Assefa Fiseha Yeibyio --Addressing the rights of indigenous peoples in the development of Ethiopia : a difficult compromise or a compelling necessity? /Dorothee Cambou --Foreign direct investment in Ethiopian land : the good, the bad, and the lessons to be learned /Genny Ngende --Integrating human rights in development --Market development and human rights protection : enforcing the UN guiding principles on business and human rights in Ethiopia /Solomon Abay Yimer --The quest for effective remedies in the home states of transnational corporations : legal realism versus legal reality /Lieselot Verdonck --The role of grants in local development efforts : case study on local autonomy and accountability from a human rights-based approach in Ethiopia /Solomon Negussie Abesha --Environmental rights and investment in Ethiopia : a strenuous relationship /Zerihun Yimer Geleta --Human rights for development : a wide range of fora --Poverty and human rights : a European perspective /Laurens Lavrysen --The Human Rights Commission of Ethiopia and issues of forced evictions : a case-oriented study of its practice /Mohammed Abdo Mohammed --Gender equality, women's rights, and environmental sustainability : the case of climate change /Nicky Broeckhoven.

Through redrafting the judgments of the ECHR, Diversity and European Human Rights demonstrates how the court could improve the mainstreaming of diversity in its judgments. Eighteen judgments are considered and rewritten to reflect the concerns of women, children, LGB persons, ethnic and religious minorities, and persons with disabilities in turn. Each redrafted judgment is accompanied by a paper outlining the theoretical concepts and frameworks that guided the approaches of the authors and explaining how each amendment to the original text is an improvement. Simultaneously, the authors demonstrate how difficult it can be to translate ideas into judgments, whilst also providing examples of what those ideas would look like in judicial language. By rewriting actual judicial decisions in a wide range of topics this book offers a broad overview of diversity issues in the jurisprudence of the ECHR and aims to bridge the gap between academic analysis and judicial practice

Through redrafting the judgments of the ECHR, Diversity and European Human Rights demonstrates how the court could improve the mainstreaming of diversity in its judgments. Eighteen judgments are considered and rewritten to reflect the concerns of women, children, LGB persons, ethnic and religious minorities, and persons with disabilities in turn. Each redrafted judgment is accompanied by a paper outlining the theoretical concepts and frameworks that guided the approaches of the authors and explaining how each amendment to the original text is an improvement. Simultaneously, the authors demonstrate how difficult it can be to translate ideas into judgments, whilst also providing examples of what those ideas would look like in judicial language. By rewriting actual judicial decisions in a wide range of topics this book offers a broad overview of diversity issues in the jurisprudence of the ECHR and aims to bridge the gap between academic analysis and judicial practice.

Constitutes a commentary on Article 14 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, guaranteeing the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This volume provides an article-by-article analysis of the substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC, and its two Optional Protocols.

ABSTRACT: The article examines the merit of UN treaty bodies' accumulated case law as a resource for domestic adjudicators, i.e., courts and quasi-judicial bodies (such as national human rights institutions) addressing human rights complaints at the national level. It has the objective of assessing the extent to which treaty bodies are "talking to" an audience beyond the parties in the case. Starting from a view that sees impact on national adjudicators as the key issue for treaty bodies' rulings on individual complaints, the article assesses to what extent the way that treaty bodies are exercising this role fits in this view. The study's focus is on two UN treaty bodies with a broadly similar output in quantitative terms, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CmERD) and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CmEDAW).