Fighting COVID-19 with Religious Discrimination
The Korean authorities have garnered significant praise for their effective response to COVID-19. However, the country’s experience has not been without controversy. A significant proportion of cases...
View ArticleHomosexuality as a Form of Expression
Numerous courts have dealt with the question whether the sexual identity of an individual enjoys constitutional protection as freedom of expression. Recently, Singapore’s Supreme Court has rejected...
View Article“Race” and the Constitution: A South African perspective
For a South African constitutional lawyer, watching from afar, the current debate in Germany on the removal of the word “race” from section 3 of article 3 of the German Basic Law, is perplexing. In...
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This weekend saw a long weekend of negotiations in Brussels, which we also addressed on our blog: with a plea for a comprehensive human rights perspective so that the recovery package actually reaches...
View ArticleRacial Profiling is unconstitutional
It can be debated, whether it merely constitutes an act of “highbrow legalism” (as the chairman of the German Police Union put it) to enforce the non-discrimination rule in art. 3 par. 3 of the German...
View ArticleLuxemburg rüttelt an Wohnsitzauflage für Flüchtlinge
Der Europäische Gerichtshof beherrscht heute wegen seiner Schrems-Entscheidung alle Schlagzeilen – zweifellos ein epochales Urteil, das heute und in den folgenden Tagen noch eine Menge Diskussionsstoff...
View ArticleBoycott calls and double standards: another French limitation on freedom of...
France, once the motherland of human rights, is increasingly clamping down on freedom of expression. According to a recent decision by the French Supreme Court, calling for boycott on Israeli goods is...
View ArticleSchengen und die versteckte Wiedereinführung der Grenzkontrollen
Immer mehr Migrant/innen reisen unerlaubt nach Deutschland ein und nutzen dabei ganz normale Buslinien. Das darf nicht sein, fand die Bundespolizei und entschloss sich 2013 – so wörtlich – „den...
View ArticleFreedom of Religion vs Islamophobia: Lombardy’s “Anti-Mosque Law” is...
While islamophobia is on the rise after the carnages of Paris and Bruxelles, recent developments in Italy may foster the confidence in the freedom of religion of European Muslims. In a ground-breaking...
View ArticleAnti-Roma-Märsche in Ungarn: Staat muss Anzeichen auf Hasskriminalität nachgehen
Gyöngyöspata ist ein kleines Kaff im Norden von Ungarn, das absolut überhaupt keine Aufmerksamkeit verdienen würde, wäre es nicht 2011 zum Schauplatz eines der übelsten rassistischen Vorgänge unserer...
View ArticleGeert Wilders’ “Incitement to Discriminate” Trial
On the 31st of October, the trial of Dutch politician Geert Wilders started before the court of first instance of The Hague, although held in a secure courtroom at Schiphol Airport. Wilders, the leader...
View ArticleWilders vs. the Dutch Constitution: Constitutional Protection against...
On March 15th, the Dutch will elect a new House of Representatives. At present, two parties seem most likely to win: Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party and the current Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s...
View ArticlePreserving Prejudice in the Name of Profit
Few CJEU judgments in recent years have received more criticism than the ‘headscarf judgments’, Achbita and Bougnaoui. In particular the decision in Achbita that private employers can legitimately...
View ArticleThe United Kingdom on Race
The United Kingdom’s Commission on Ethnic and Racial Disparities, led by Tony Sewell, has recently published a report (“the Sewell Report”), which has been widely discredited since its launch by...
View ArticleFrom Russia with Love
On 18 November 2020, we wrote a blogpost on the new chapter of the Government’s crusade against LGBTQI persons in Hungary. We argued that the amendments to the Fundamental Law paved the way for more...
View ArticlePride or Prejudice?
Rarely are CJEU judgments criticised as widely and unequivocally as the 2017 Achbita judgment, which allowed private employers to pursue a policy of neutrality – and ban visible signs of political,...
View ArticleTackling Discrimination in Targeted Advertising
It’s a cliché by now to note that social media platforms’ real clients are advertisers, not users. On June 21, Meta (formerly Facebook) and the US Department for Housing and Urban Development released...
View ArticleCitizenship Imposition is the New Non-Discrimination Standard
Savickis and others v. Latvia is about pension rights. Employment periods accrued in the former republics of the USSR, other than the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (“SSR”), are excluded for...
View ArticleBattling the hydra in EU anti-discrimination law
Can a company refuse to conclude or renew a contract with a self-employed person because he is gay? And may contractual freedom prevail over the prohibition of discrimination in such a situation? The...
View ArticleReframing Harassment as Occupational Safety and Health Issue
In 2019, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted the Convention No. 190 on Violence and Harassment at Work (alongside the accompanying Recommendation Nr. 206). The convention has been dubbed...
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