New Trends in Discrimination Law: International Perspectives

Hannikainen, Lauri & Nykänen, Eeva (eds.):
Turku Law School, Turku 1999. 

The prohibition of discrimination is one of the basic principles of international human rights law. During the recent decade, positive developments have taken place in this field, for example, with regard to the prohibition of discrimination against women, the international rules on minorities and indigenous peoples and the international monitoring of the respect for the prohibition of discrimination. However, at the same time ethnic and religious intolerance and xenophobia raise their ugly head in many countries of the world.

This book aims at collating and analyzing some positive developments in the prohibition of discrimination, with the purpose of opening new perspectives in the topic which as such is not new. The main emphasis is on the prohibition of discrimination against women and on equality between women and men. Other themes in the book include national measures to combat discrimination, the work of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, and the discrimination against HIV-positive persons and AIDS victims.

Contents: 

1. Martin Scheinin - Women’s Economic and Social Rights as Human Rights: Conceptual Problems and Issues of Practical Implementation 
2. Katarina Frostell - Gender Difference and the Non-discrimination Principle in the CCPR and the CEDAW 
3. Merja Pentikäinen - The Prohibition of Discrimination and the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
4. Athanasia Spiliopoulou Åkermark - Minority Women: International Protection and the Problem of Multiple Discrimination 
5. Tove Ahlskog - The Meaning of "Equal Work" in Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome 
6. Frank Orton - Combatting Racism and Ethnic Discrimination 
7. Lauri Hannikainen - The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) 
8. Maarit Anttila - AIDS Does Not Discriminate but People Do