Annapurna Waughray (UK Manchester Metropolitan University)

Capturing Caste in Law

The Legal Regulation of Caste Discrimination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book suggests solutions for capturing caste in international and domestic law, examining legal conceptualization and regulation of caste as a social category in international law, India and the UK. It considers how effective legal protection from and prevention of discrimination on grounds of caste can be secured, and why this is important.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781032009735
• ISBN-10: 103200973X
• Artikelnr.: 69920553

Autorenporträt

Annapurna Waughray is Professor of Human Rights Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is Caste?, 2. The Dalits and the History of Caste Inequality, 3.
The Legal Regulation of Caste Discrimination: Lessons from India, 4. Caste
Discrimination and International Human Rights Law Standards: International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965
and the UN Human Rights Treaties, 5. Caste Discrimination and International
Human Rights Law Standards: UN Charter Bodies, 6. Caste in the UK
1950-2009, 7. British Discrimination Law and Caste: from the Race Relations
Act 1965 to the Equality Bill 2009, 8. Caste Discrimination and the Making
of the Equality Act 2010, 9. Caste Discrimination in the UK: beyond the
Equality Act 2010