Editorial - September 2024
| Published date | 01 September 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/13582291241278800 |
| Author | Laura Carlson,James Hand,Panos Kapotas |
| Date | 01 September 2024 |
Editorial
International Journal of
Discrimination and the Law
2024, Vol. 24(3) 139–142
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Editorial - September 2024
At the time of writing this editorial, the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris are in full swing
with 10,500 athletes and, for the first time in Olympic history, an equal number of
women and men.
1
Without detracting from the symbolic significance of this milestone,
one cannot help but note that gender equality in sports is still a long way away, with
women still severely underrepresented in sports decision-making bodies.
2
In another
historic first, Kamala Harris, currently the first African American and first South Asian
American Vice-President of the United States, has been confirmed as the presumptive
nominee of the Democratic Party in the November U.S. Presidential election.
3
In what
has been termed a super-election year with more than 60 countries going to the polls in
2024,
4
a win for Kamala Harris will undoubtedly be another symbolic victory for gender
and race equality that will hopefully reverberate across continents. However, such a
victory will neither automatically heal fractures in the U.S. body politic, nor will it
necessarily be representative of the political direction of travel elsewhere in the world.
Equality issues, from gender politics to the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers,
are bound to play a crucial, if conflicting, role in the decisions of voters, often with
unpredictable outcomes.
5
The articles in this current volume engage with a broad range of such equality
issues in diverse jurisdictions, taking us from Lebanon to Uganda and then to
Ukraine and the heart of Europe. Diversity is also evident in the methodological
toolboxes the authors use, although doctrinal analysis understandably remains the
method of choice for most. Although the four articles seem to have little thematic
affinity to each other, the topics they touch upon allow three observations about the
current state of play in equality and anti-discrimination law across the globe. First,
some of the biggest regulatory challenges that lie ahead, from striking a realistic
work-life balance to reigning in discriminatory algorithms, inevitably transcend
jurisdictional boundaries in an interconnected global economy. Second, despite a
universal floor of equality rights enshrined in international human rights instru-
ments, a staggering regulatory divergence still exists at the national level, especially
in relation to matters where cultural or religious sensitivities need be considered.
National legislative choices around the treatment of women, refugees or LGBTQI +
persons are often difficult –if not outright impossible –to reconcile with the baseline
of international protection.
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