The report offers an overview of the protection from discrimination under 1950 European Convention on Human Rights and the 1961 European Social Charter, as well as the 1966 Revised European Social Charter, which are the main human rights treaties of the Council of Europe. The report seeks to...

This article assesses the development of EU anti-discrimination against a typology of models of equality. Under a first model, discrimination is prohibited, but there is no obligation to ensure a proportionate representation of the diverse social groups whose members are protected from...

Over 10 years ago a major and unprecedented evolution occurred in the European Union with the adoption in 2000 of two pieces of EU legislation in the field of anti-discrimination: the Racial Equality Directive (2000/43/EC) and the Employment Equality Directive (2000/78/EC). The transposition and...