02583cam a22003732 b4500 10298324 BD-DhUL 20160424172915.0 m d cr n 970308e19970417ncu esb||||||1 2|eng|d 9780198264880 0198264887 (Trade Paper) USD 80.00 Retail Price (Publisher) 9780198264880 (WaSeSS)ssj0000667724 00020142 BIP US WaSeSS BD-DhUL BD-DhUL 323.3264 21 WIS Wintemute, Robert Author Sexual Orientation and Human Rights Sexual Orientation and Human Rights [electronic resource]: The United States Constitution, the European Convention, and the Canadian Charter New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 292 p. ; 24 cm. GBP 15.99 Includes bibliography and index. License restrictions may limit access. Annotation "Lesbian and gay rights are human rights!" Is this just a political slogan to be chanted outside legislatures, or are there legal arguments to support the claim that the right to be free from sexual orientation discrimination is a human right? In particular, can national constitutions or international human rights treaties be interpreted as prohibiting discrimination against gays, lesbians, and bisexuals? Robert Wintemute attempts to answer these questions by examining three of the most commonly used arguments in favor of such an interpretation: sexual orientation is an "immutable status", sexual orientation is a "fundamental choice" (or part of "privacy"), and sexual orientation discrimination is sex discrimination. To assess their merits, he looks at the relative success and failure in cases argued under three of the world's most influential human rights instruments: the United States Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He also considers the potential impact of the United Nations Human Rights Committee's recent interpretation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights inToonen v.Australia. College Audience Oxford University Press, Incorporated Sexual orientation Oxford Scholarship Online Law http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio10298324 Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Law Bowker Global Books in Print record ddc BK 57783 57783 0 0 ddc 0 323_326400000000000_WIS 0 NFIC 97080 DUL DUL GEN 1998-09-29 purchased 323.3264 WIS 373502 2016-04-24 1 2016-04-24 BK 0 0 ddc 0 323_326400000000000_WIS 0 NFIC 97081 DUL DUL GEN 1998-09-29 purchased 323.3264 WIS 373503 2016-04-24 2 2016-04-24 BK