Abstract
Over the last decade there has been a significant broadening of the legal protection against discrimination in Norway. Adding to a comparatively strong gender equality legislation, the protection against discrimination has been expanded through a series of legal regulations to cover ethnicity, national origin, language, religion, sexual orientation, disability and age, quite in line with recent EU developments and with the gradual strengthening of the international human rights regime. A major concern regarding these reform processes is the extent to which multiple and/or intersectional forms of discrimination are adequately addressed. In this article we examine the position of intersectional framings in recent legislative and monitoring reforms, and through the judicial practice of the new monitoring agencies. Multiple ground complaints constitute a minor, but increasing part of the cases handled by the Norwegian Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud and the adjudicating Equality Tribunal. A closer examination of selected cases shows how there is a scale of possible conceptualizations of the ‘discrimination problem’ at hand which is open in the sense that cases of multiple discrimination could move into an area of intersectional problematic.
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.