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Handbook on European non-discrimination law – 2018 edition

Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Children, youth and older people
People with disabilities
Hate crime
Racial and ethnic origin
Religion and belief
Roma
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
European non-discrimination law, as constituted in particular by the EU non-discrimination
directives, and Article 14 of and Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights, prohibits
discrimination across a range of contexts and grounds. This handbook examines European non-discrimination
law stemming from these two sources as complementary systems, drawing on
them interchangeably to the extent that they overlap, while highlighting differences where
these exist.
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20 March 2018
Handbook on European non-discrimination law – 2018 edition (2.72 MB)
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It also contains references to other Council of Europe instruments, in particular the European Charter of Social Rights, as well as to relevant United Nations instruments. With the impressive body of case law by the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union in the non-discrimination field, it seems useful to present, in an accessible way, a handbook intended for legal practitioners – such as judges, prosecutors and lawyers, as well as law-enforcement officers – in the EU and Council of Europe Member States and beyond.

Contents

  1. Introduction to European non-discrimination law: context, evolution and key principles
  2. Discrimination categories
  3. Justification for less favourable treatment under European nondiscrimination law
  4. Selected areas of protection
  5. Protected grounds
  6. Procedural issues in non-discrimination law