Towards Realising a Right to Positive Action for Roma in Europe: Connors v. UK
Towards Realising a Right to Positive Action for Roma in Europe: Connors v. UK
Author(s): Claude CahnSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: European Roma Rights Center
Keywords: Slovak anti-discrimination law; European Court of Human Rights; elimination of all forms of racial discrimination; expanding minority rights regime in Europe; Roma rights
Summary/Abstract: In October 2004 Slovak Minister of Justice Daniel Lipšic filed a complaint at the Slovak Constitutional Court requesting that that body quash the positive action provisions of the new Slovak anti-discrimination law. Minister Lipšic had been threatening to file such a complaint since the law was adopted earlier this year. Many had previously assumed that Lipšic was merely making populist hay among the many segments of Slovak society who apparently can be rallied to oppose something called “positive discrimination”, a phrase in which images of Gypsies eventually coming to rule over ethnic Slovaks as slave-driving task-masters, dance in the heads of the fearful. Judgment is currently pending in the case.[...]
Journal: Roma Rights Quarterly
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 13-26
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English