The Development of Legal Instruments to Combat Racism in a Diverse Europe

Download or read book The Development of Legal Instruments to Combat Racism in a Diverse Europe written by Jan Niessen and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe has come a long way at least in the institutional response to racism. This book describes the responses of the Council of Europe and the European Union to the worrying trends of racism and xenophobia in the 1990s, and considers the prospects for combating discrimination in Europe using tools that have emerged as a result. Part one looks at the evolution of the Council of Europe apparatus to combat discrimination and the anti-discrimination standards prescribed by its institutions. Part two considers the legislative measures recently adopted by the European Union. The contributions in Part three take a comparative perspective of all measures adopted at European level to combat racial and ethnic discrimination.