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Jewish Law and International Law: The Past
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Michael J Broyde and Yehonatan Elazar-De Mota
Published: 21 February 2025
..., particularly in areas such as trade, diplomacy, and treaties. The chapter details how Jewish communities, despite facing significant legal discrimination, contributed to the broader development of international legal principles. Through a series of historical case studies, the chapter demonstrates how Jewish...
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Marginalised minorities in conflict: women and Millennium Development Goals
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Sarah Hoesch and Alireza Saniei-Pour
Published: 20 September 2017
... women's position in conflict. In particular, it examines sexual violence as a tool of terror and the current situation with regards to political representation and representation in peace negotiations. It also comments on legal discrimination that is aggravating conflict and post-conflict situations...
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Rights, segregation and discrimination
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Karin Fischer
Published: 01 September 2016
... curricula syllabuses diversity diversification socio cultural autonomy of thought learning Education and Training Boards identity religious South Africa Private interests School segregation Legal discrimination Admission policy Children’s rights Freedom of conscience Parental choice Community...
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Securing the Workplace
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Adam Malka
Published: 09 April 2018
... Fardy J T Federal Hill neighborhood Robinson A J Swann Thomas Thomas Henry White vigilantism White men Workingmen Job busting Wages Black workers Legal discrimination White violence Policemen Policing Freedom Nineteenth-century Americans called Baltimore “Mobtown” for good reason...
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Forced Confessions: Police Torture and the African American Struggle for Civil Rights in the 1930s and 1940s South
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Silvan Niedermeier
Published: 01 April 2019
... to the courts to protest acts of torture, contest forced confessions, and challenge legal discrimination. The chapter places these protests within the context of the “long Civil Rights movement” to illuminate the tensions between the demands of white supremacy and the demands of a “color-blind” law...
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Police and court responses
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Jacqueline Jenkinson
Published: 01 May 2009
... caught during the rioting were convicted. It is shown that legal discrimination was introduced in some of the London prosecutions; only in the aftermath of the August rioting at Canning Town did it seem to be absent. Frequently, black and Arab people in the rioting were accused with police assault...
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Undocumented Children in Europe: Ignored Victims of Immigration Restrictions1
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Luca Bicocchi
Published: 04 March 2011
...This chapter focuses on the rights of undocumented children in Europe. Lack of protection for the rights of undocumented children has become a prime concern for international organizations across the European Union. Legal discrimination has been identified as a major reason for the lack of equal...
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Legal and Economic Discrimination
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Hermann Beck
Published: 18 August 2022
... bourgeoisie legal discrimination economic discrimination Beamtengesetz “Aryan clause,” anti-Jewish legislation The year 1933 marks the decisive caesura in the history of German Jews. As Leo Baeck emphasized in his speech on the occasion of the founding of the Reichsvertretung der Juden ...
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Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics
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Dara Z. Strolovitch
Published online: 21 March 2013
Published in print: 30 June 2007
... millennium, as waning legal discrimination coincides with increasing political and economic inequalities within the populations they represent. Drawing on data from a survey of 286 organizations and interviews with forty officials, the author finds that groups too often prioritize the interests of their most...
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