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Stereotypes are beliefs about groups of people. Some examples,
taken from human rights case law, are the notions that 'Roma are
thieves', 'women are responsible for childcare', and 'people with a
mental disability are incapable of forming political opinions'.
Increasingly, human rights monitoring bodies including the European
and inter-American human rights courts, the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the Committee on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination voice concerns about
stereotyping and warn States not to enforce harmful stereotypes.
Human rights bodies thus appear to be starting to realise what
social psychologists discovered a long time ago: that stereotypes
underlie inequality and discrimination. Despite their relevance and
their legal momentum, however, stereotypes have so far received
little attention from human rights law scholars. This volume is the
first one to broadly analyse stereotypes as a human rights issue.
The scope of the book includes different stereotyping grounds such
as race, gender, and disability. Moreover, this book examines
stereotyping approaches across a broad range of supranational human
rights monitoring bodies, including the United Nations human rights
treaty system as well as the regional systems that are most
developed when it comes to addressing stereotypes: the Council of
Europe and the inter-American system.
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