Realising Protection from Age Discrimination

International, Regional, and National Perspectives

Helen Meenan, Christa Tobler (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

334 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
9781035341801 (ISBN)

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This timely book presents a considered analysis of age discrimination provisions and outlines constructive guidance as to how they might be reformed. It highlights the prevalence of age discrimination for all age groups but especially against older persons, demonstrating the importance of effective legal protection for this cohort - especially when age discrimination intersects with other grounds.

Helen Meenan and Christa Tobler bring together expert scholars and legal practitioners to critically analyse how older persons are protected from age discrimination in legal frameworks internationally, regionally and nationally, appraising strengths and weaknesses in each system. In addition, the contributors to this volume include unique office-holders who enable the voices of older people to be heard. By critically examining where protection from age discrimination is now, where it needs to go and how best to arrive there, the authors highlight that protection from age-based prejudices is crucial to the full enjoyment of all human rights by older people. This book allows age discrimination to be appraised from varied yet complementary perspectives, reinforcing the importance of protecting victims of all backgrounds from age-based discrimination.

This book is an essential tool for students and academics in fields such as human rights, employment law, discrimination law and gerontology. Its practical approach will also greatly benefit health and social protection researchers, law makers and policymakers, as well as NGOs, human rights institutions and organisations, and care institutions interested in tackling systemic ageism and protecting older persons from age discrimination.

Edited by Helen Meenan, Visiting Professor, Kingston University, United Kingdom and Christa Tobler, Professor of EU Law, University of Basel, Switzerland and University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Contents
Foreword xiii
1 Introduction: Realising Protection from Age Discrimination: International, Regional, and National Perspectives
Helen Meenan and Christa Tobler 1
PART I INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES: TIME FOR ACTION
2 The struggle for equality, freedom and visibility: the campaign to achieve a new United Nations treaty on the human rights of older persons
Andrew Byrnes 24
3 Unveiling age discrimination: a global perspective through the lens of the UN Independent Expert
Claudia Mahler 55
4 Legal protection of the rights of older persons: progress and perspectives from the African regional system
Danwood M. Chirwa and Lilian Chenwi 74
5 Europe: ‘unsung hero’ or ‘also ran’? – perspectives on age discrimination from the European Union and the Council of Europe
Helen Meenan 93
PART II THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF OLDER PERSONS AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES: PERSPECTIVES FROM UNIQUE OFFICE-HOLDERS AND DISCRIMINATION OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT
6 Challenges and perspectives on age discrimination from the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales
Heléna Herklots 127
7 The role of national human rights institutions in combating age discrimination: from the perspective of the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland
Anna Chabiera 148
8 Challenges and perspectives on age discrimination outside employment in the European Union with a spotlight on Ireland
Elaine Dewhurst 166
9 Advancing equality for older persons in the provision of goods and services: drawing on the Australian experience
Therese MacDermott 189
PART III CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF AGE DISCRIMINATION IN NATIONAL JURISDICTIONS
10 Age discrimination law in Australia: challenges in realising protection from age discrimination
Alysia Blackham 210
11 Age discrimination: current and future issues in Japanese labour law
Ryoko Sakuraba 231
12 The United Kingdom legislation on age discrimination
Declan O’Dempsey 251
13 Age discrimination law in Canada: a challenging way forward
Pnina Alon-Shenker 275
14 Second class no longer: recognizing freedom from ageism as a fundamental right in the US
Laurie A. McCann and Cathy Ventrell-Monsees 293
Index 310

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Studies in Law and Society
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781035341801 / 9781035341801
Zustand	Neuware