This directive prohibits discrimination on the grounds of sex, particularly with reference to marital or family status in employment, including access to employment, promotion, vocational training and working conditions. The Directive does not apply to...
Country: European Union
Document type: Regional Instruments
Topic: Sex
Document date: 09 Feb 1976
This declaration guarantees that disabled persons are entitled to respect for their dignity and that they have civil and political rights as well as rights to economic and social security. Discriminating against disabled people on grounds or situations that...
Document type: International Instruments
Topic: Disability, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Sex, Other Status
Document date: 09 Dec 1975
Article 1 of this directive provides that the principle of "principle of equal pay" in Article 119 of the EC Treaty means "for the same work or for work to which equal value is attributed, the elimination of all discrimination on grounds of sex...
Country: European Union
Document type: Regional Instruments
Topic: Sex
Document date: 10 Feb 1975
This is the full text of the Swedish Constitution, enacted by the Swedish Parliament. It was adopted in 1974 and has been in force since 01/01/1975.
Country: Sweden
Topic: Sex, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Disability, Age, Sexual Orientation, Other Status
Document date: 01 Jan 1975
This is the ERT case summary of the United States Supreme Court decision of Corning Glass Works v Brennan Secretary of Labor 417 U.S. 188 (1974).
Country: USA
Document type: Case Law
Topic: Direct Discrimination, Indirect Discrimination, Sex, Positive Action
Document date: 03 Jun 1974
This is the full text of the Federal Constitutional Act, enacted by Austria.
Country: Austria
Document type: National Legislation
Topic: Race and Ethnicity, Other Status
Document date: 03 Jul 1973
This declaration guarantees rights respecting the dignity of the mentally disabled, including the right not to be exploited and abused, the right to economic security, the right to a decent standard of living and the right to proper medical care and therapy. It...
Document type: International Instruments
Topic: Disability
Document date: 20 Dec 1971
This is the full text, in French only, of the Penal Code of Algeria. It was adopted on 22 April 1971 and has been in force since that date.
Country: Algeria
Document type: National Legislation
Topic: Religion, Sex, Race and Ethnicity, Other Status
Document date: 22 Apr 1971
This is the ERT case summary of the United States Court of Appeal of the Fourt Circuit decision of Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971).
Country: USA
Document type: Case Law
Topic: Direct Discrimination, Indirect Discrimination, Race and Ethnicity, Positive Action
Document date: 08 Mar 1971
Editorial of vol 14 of the Equal Rights Review by Executive Director of the Equal Rights Trust, Dimitrina Petrova.
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Topic: Discrimination Grounds, Religion
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Editorial from the Equal Rights Review Vol seven.
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Factsheet on the content of children's right to a nationality under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Topic: Race and Ethnicity
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Source: Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
Extract from the report: Pakistan has hosted several million Afghan refugees since the late 1970s, but hostility toward its Afghan population increased dramatically after the so-called Pakistani Taliban attacked a school in Peshawar in December 2014, killing more...
Country: Pakistan
Document type: Reports
Topic: Race and Ethnicity
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Source: Human Rights Watch
Article from volume 9 of the Equal Rights Review by Aleksejs Dimitrovs titled, Equality Law in Latvia: Current Trends and Challenges, and translated into Russian.
Country: Latvia
Document type: Articles and Commentary
Topic: Discrimination Grounds
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Article for volume 12 of the Equal Rights Review translated into Russian. The article was written by Vadim Poleshchuk and titled, Older Age, Employment and Equality in Legislation: A “...
Country: Estonia
Document type: Articles and Commentary
Topic: Discrimination Grounds
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Article written for volume 14 of the Equal Rights Review translated into Russian. The article was written by Aileen McColgan and was titled, Discrimination on Grounds of Religion and...
Document type: Articles and Commentary
Topic: Religion
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Country: China
Document type: Articles and Commentary
Topic: Race and Ethnicity
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Document type: Articles and Commentary
Topic: Religion
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Document type: Articles and Commentary
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Document type: Articles and Commentary
Topic: Religion
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Country: United Kingdom
Document type: Articles and Commentary
Topic: Discrimination Grounds
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Topic: Discrimination Grounds
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Topic: Unified Human Rights Framework on Equality, Discrimination Grounds, Prohibited Conduct, Positive Action, Links with Other Issues
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Country: Armenia, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Topic: Discrimination Grounds
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Source: Equal Rights Trust
Topic: Development and Equal Rights
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Source: Equal Rights Trust