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France’s Veil Ban before the European Court of Human Rights

On Tuesday, July 1, the European Court of Human Rights will rule on whether France’s 2010 ban on wearing full-face veils in public breaches the protections of the European Convention on Human Rights.

June 2014
First page of PDF with filename: briefing-sasfrance-06252014.pdf
Briefing Paper

Opinion on Clause 60 of UK Immigration Bill and Article 8 of UN Convention on Reducing Statelessness

This legal opinion concludes that a proposed move to remove previously allowed protections against statelessness would put the UK in breach of the 1961 Statelessness Convention.

March 11, 2014
First page of PDF with filename: briefing-clause60-03112014.pdf
Report

Equality Under Pressure: The Impact of Ethnic Profiling in the Netherlands

The Dutch pride themselves on being members of an open, tolerant, and fair society. But for a growing number of people in the Netherlands, this ideal is being put under pressure by proactive police actions.

November 2013
First page of PDF with filename: equality-under-pressure-the-impact-of-ethnic-profiling-netherlands-20131128_1.pdf
Briefing Paper

Case Digests: International Standards on Ethnic Profiling: Decisions and Comments from the UN system

A review of key legal-standards, including jurisprudence and commentaries, from the UN human rights system on the legal prohibition of ethnic profiling.

November 2016
First page of PDF with filename: Digests-Ethnic Profiling-UN system revised-07.26.16_0.pdf
Report

Standing Up for Equality in Germany’s Schools

Why do children of “migration background” often perform significantly worse at school than their native German counterparts? The problem is discrimination.

October 2013
First page of PDF with filename: standing-up-for-equality-germany-schools-english-20131024.pdf
Report

Equality Betrayed: The Impact of Ethnic Profiling in France

French police checks disproportionately target young men of North African and Arab origin: read first hand accounts of the human cost and the damage done.

September 2013
First page of PDF with filename: equality-betrayed-impact-ethnic-profiling-france-20130925.pdf
Briefing Paper

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review: Review of Germany

This submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Germany argues that several primary and secondary schools in Berlin are segregating migrant children in separate classes that provide vastly inferior education.

July 2013
First page of PDF with filename: universal-periodic-review-germany-16-session-upr-20130726.pdf
Briefing Paper

Case Digests: UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 2004–12

A summary of decisions and views expressed by CEDAW in the period 2011–2012.

June 2013
First page of PDF with filename: case-digests-cedaw-june-2012-20130619.pdf
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