Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives

by Errol P. Mendes (Editor), Sakunthala Srighanthan (Editor)

Overview

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.

Published in English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780776618111
Publisher:	University of Ottawa Press
Publication date:	04/18/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	438
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Professor Mendes is a lawyer, author, professor and has been an advisor to corporations, governments, civil society groups and the United Nations. His teaching, research and consulting interests include constitutional and human rights law, corporate law, global governance, public international law (including humanitarian and international criminal law) and international business and trade law.

Professor Mendes completed his term as Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre on June 30, 2001, and returned to full-time teaching in the Common Law section. He had been Director of the Centre since 1993. The Centre is the oldest University-based bilingual human rights research and education institution in Canada.

As Director of the Centre, he was the Project leader for human rights, governance and justice projects in China, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru, El Salvador, Sri Lanka and India.