Editorial - December 2024
| Published date | 01 December 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/13582291241293878 |
| Date | 01 December 2024 |
Editorial
International Journal of
Discrimination and the Law
2024, Vol. 24(4) 237–239
© The Author(s) 2024
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Editorial - December 2024
We write this introduction in turbulent times, a month before the US elections, with the
news dominated by those, the continuing war in Ukraine, and the Middle East (along with
the rest of the world) awaiting the Israeli response to Iran’s barrage of missiles in response
to the Israeli actions against Hezbollah and the assassination of its leader; the UN reports
that 900,000 people in Lebanon have already been displaced.
1
In these contexts all else
pales in comparison.
However, more positively, Mexico has just sworn in its first female president;
2
the
Ghanaian Affirmative Action (Gender Equity) Bill, which has the object of ensuring the
achievement of gender equality in the political, social, economic, educational and cultural
spheres of the society,
3
has been signed into law by the President;
4
the Thai Marriage
Equality Bill has also now been signed into law (making Thailand the first country in
south-east Asia (and third in Asia) to recognise same-sex marriage with the first cere-
monies due in late January when the law takes effect);
5
and in Great Britain the new
positive duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment of employees is about to come
into force.
6
Looking forward, to the extent that one can, next year sees the 30th anniversary of the
IJDL. We are planning to mark this in a number of ways. If all goes according to schedule,
we expect the first issue of 2025 will be a special issue based on a workshop held last year
- the journal’s 15th special issue kicking off its 30th anniversary year. Weare also looking
to publish a virtual special issue looking back at articles over the years - and then to mark
the journal’s 100th issue at the end of the year with a further special issue marking that
landmark and looking to the future. We will also continue the diverse range of new articles
and case, legislative and policy comments online first and in some issues through the year.
We are also planning on modernizing one aspect of the journal. The journal was first
published in 1995, and the current guidance on submissions states that the journal (still)
follows the Sage Harvard reference style with in-text citations. In practice, there has been
some flexibility over the years but we are proposing to formally adopt the newer footnote-
based OSCOLA format (itself marking its 25th anniversary). Submissions will not need to
be in OSCOLA but can be reformatted as part of the revision process. We hope that this
will create greater consistency both for readers and writers as OSCOLA has become a
more common reference style in law.
Turning to this issue. While the four articles in this issue are located in a relatively
narrow geographical area, being located on both sides of the North Atlantic, they cover an
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