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020 _a9780198264880
020 _a0198264887 (Trade Paper)
_cUSD 80.00 Retail Price (Publisher)
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100 1 _aWintemute, Robert
_eAuthor
210 1 0 _aSexual Orientation and Human Rights
245 1 0 _aSexual Orientation and Human Rights
_h[electronic resource]:
_bThe United States Constitution, the European Convention, and the Canadian Charter
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c1997.
300 _axii, 292 p. ;
_c24 cm.
365 _aGBP
_b15.99
504 _aIncludes bibliography and index.
506 _aLicense restrictions may limit access.
520 8 _aAnnotation
_b"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.
521 _aCollege Audience
_bOxford University Press, Incorporated
650 0 _aSexual orientation
773 0 _tOxford Scholarship Online Law
856 4 0 _uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio10298324
_zFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Law
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