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

Drawing on domestic and international law, as well as on judgments given by courts and human rights treaty bodies, Gender Stereotyping offers perspectives on wa

International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human

This book employs a careful, rigorous, yet lively approach to the timely question of whether we can justly generalize about members of a group on the basis of s

This book analyses the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in various international, regional and national contexts.