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Intersectionality and Human Rights Law

Intersectionality and Human Rights Law

Author: Shreya Atrey; Peter Dunne
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509935291
Published In: December 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This collection of essays analyses how the diversity in human identity and disadvantage affects the articulation, realisation, violation and enforcement of human rights.

The question arises from the realisation that people, who are severally and severely disadvantaged because of their race, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, class etc, often find themselves at the margins of human rights; their condition seldom improved and sometimes even worsened by the rights discourse. How does one make sense of this relationship between the complexity of people's disadvantage and violation of their human rights? Does the human rights discourse, based on its universal and common values, have tools, methods or theories to capture and respond to the difference in people's lived experience of rights? Can intersectionality help in that quest? This book seeks to inaugurate this line of inquiry.

Introduction: Intersectionality from Equality to Human Rights

Shreya Atrey, University of Oxford, UK

1. Beyond Universality: An Intersectional Justification of Human Rights

Shreya Atrey, University of Oxford, UK

2. Harnessing the Full Potential of Intersectionality Theory in International Human Rights Law: Lessons from Disabled Children's Right to Education

Gauthier de Beco, University of Huddersfield, UK

3. The Potential and Pitfalls of Intersectionality in the Context of Social Rights Adjudication

Colm O'Cinneide, University College London, UK

4. The Right to Education and Substantive Equality: An Intersectional Reading

Sandra Fredman, University of Oxford, UK

5. Class, Intersectionality, the Right to Housing and the Avoidable Tragedy of Grenfell Tower

Geraldine Van Bueren QC, Queen Mary, University of London, UK