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EUROPE IS POISED TO MAKE THE MOST SWEEPING CHANGES IN ANTI-DISCRIMINATION legislation since the beginning of unification. While a few states have specific legislation against discrimination, most current members of the European Union (EU) and those that will be joining over the next few years do not. The obligation to implement the EU’s Article 13 Race Directive and Employment Directive will radically transform discourse and policy regarding racism and equality across much of Europe.1 Whether this effort will be met with a serious commitment by states to enforce the new legislation will determine to what degree Europe will genuinely become multicultural and multiracial in content as much as in form.
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Prior to World War II, many black activists in the United States, Asia, and Latin America advocated a global thrust against racism, particularly in their colonial manifestations. The leading global powers, however, did not seriously address the issue until Nazism demonstrated the disaster of unchecked racism. See Paul Gordon Lauren, Power and Prejudice: The Politics and Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996).
James Goldston, “Race Discrimination in Europe: Problems and Prospects,” European Human Rights Law Review, no. 5 (1999): 464.
Mark Bell, “Meeting the Challenge? A Comparison Between the EU Racial Equality Directive and the Starting Line,” in The Starting Line and the Incorporation of the Racial Directive into the National Laws of the EU Member States and Accession States, ed. Isabelle Chopin and Jan Niessen (London: Commission for Racial Equality, 2001), 22–49.
See Anne F. Bayefsky, “The Principle of Equality or Non Discrimination in International Law,” Human Rights Law Journal 11, nos. 1–2 (1990): 1, 5; and Stephen Livingstone, “Article 14 and the Prevention of Discrimination in the European Convention on Human Rights,” European Human Rights Law Review 1 (1997): 25–34.
Karon Monaghan, “Limitations and Opportunities: A Review of the Likely Domestic Impact of Article 14 in the ECHR,” European Human Rights Law Review, no. 2 (2001): 172.
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Lusane, C. (2008). Regionalism against Racism. In: Marable, M., Agard-Jones, V. (eds) Transnational Blackness. The Critical Black Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230615397_16
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