Essays about: "anti-discrimination law"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words anti-discrimination law.

1. 1. Legal rights for queer people in Japan: How the LGBT Understanding Promotion Bill was shelved in 2021

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för japanska

   Author : Irma Fogelberg; [2023]
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   Abstract : The fight for equal rights for LGBTQ+ people in Japan has in recent years led to efforts to enact a law to promote understanding. After intense debates and revisions in the spring of 2021, the bill was shelved just before the Olympics, despite pressure from national and international organizations such as the International Olympic Committee. READ MORE

3. 2. Intersecting housing discrimination : A socio-legal study on the limits of Swedish anti-discrimination law

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Sandra Klinth; [2018]
   Keywords : anti-discrimination law; critical legal studies; discrimination; housing; human rights; intersectionality; law; limits of law; socio-legal studies;

   Abstract : This qualitative socio-legal study critically examined the protection against housing discrimination found in chapter 2 § 12 of the Swedish Discrimination Act (SFS 2008:567), in light of United Nations, Council of Europe and European Union housing and non-discrimination (human rights) standards. As an applied socio-legal study it aimed to be critical towards the limits of law in context. READ MORE

4. 3. Effects of Anti-discrimination Law on the Differential between Non-regular and Regular Workers in South Korea

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Kim Wansoo; [2017-07-28]
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   Abstract : South Korea implemented a new anti-discrimination law in 2007. The goal is to reduce the labor condition differentials between non-regular and regular workers. This study analyzes the effect of the law on the wage differential. The data comes from “Survey on Labor Conditions by Employment Type”. READ MORE

5. 4. Nobody asks us! Muslim women's experiences and perspectives of multiculturalism, the legal system and the debate on veil in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Syarta Bonnevier; [2016]
   Keywords : Discrimination; Distorted communication; Habermas: Theory of Communicative Action; Veil-ban; Multiculturalism; Legal system; Recognition; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Within the first decade of this millennium several Western European countries have prohibited Muslim veils in public spaces. Excluding the culture of Muslims or more specifically Islamic beliefs in a multicultural society, in which the hardest hit are Muslim veiled women, has resulted in the discourse of the ‘rise and fall of multiculturalism’. READ MORE

6. 5. UberPOP and EU Internal Market Law

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Felix Johnson; [2016]
   Keywords : EU law; Internal Market law; Sharing economy; Online platforms; Uber; UberPOP; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : To share belongings between friends is a common phenomenon. However, sharing as a business trend or even an economic system, in which unfamiliar individuals share assets and skills via online platforms, usually for a fee, is a newer phenomenon. The economic system is generally called “the sharing economy” or “collaborative consumption”. READ MORE