TY - BOOK ID - 722686 TI - Stereotypes and human rights law AU - Brems, Eva AU - Timmer, Alexandra PY - 2016 SN - 9781780683683 1780683685 9781780685458 1780685459 PB - Cambridge Intersentia DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Human rights KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) KW - Human Rights. KW - Stéréotype (psychologie) KW - Préjugés KW - Discrimination KW - Droits de l'homme (droit international) KW - Discrimination sexuelle KW - Discrimination dans les forces armées KW - Droit KW - Human Rights KW - Préjugés. KW - Droit. KW - Sociology of law KW - United Nations KW - European Court of Human Rights KW - Human rights. KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Mental stereotypes KW - Stereotype (Psychology) KW - Stereotyping (Social psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Attitude (Psychology) KW - Rigidity (Psychology) KW - Law and legislation KW - Race KW - Gender KW - Stereotypes KW - Legislation KW - Policy KW - Book KW - Domestic violence UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:722686 AB - 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. ER -