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Realising Protection from Age Discrimination: International, Regional, and National Perspectives

Edited by: Helen Meenan, Christa Tobler

ISBN13: 9781035341801
To be Published: August 2025
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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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.

Subjects:
Discrimination Law
Contents:
Foreword xiii'
1. Introduction: Realising Protection from Age Discrimination: International, Regional, and National Perspectives 1'
Helen Meenan and Christa Tobler

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 24'
Andrew Byrnes'
3. Unveiling age discrimination: a global perspective through the lens of the UN Independent Expert 55'
Claudia Mahler'
4. Legal protection of the rights of older persons: progress and perspectives from the African regional system 74'
Danwood M. Chirwa and Lilian Chenwi'
5. Europe ‘unsung hero’ or ‘also ran’: perspectives on age discrimination from the European Union and the Council of Europe 93'
Helen Meenan

PART II THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF OLDER PERSONS AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES: PERSPECTIVES FROM AN OLDER PEOPLE’S COMMISSIONER, A NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTION AND AGE DISCRIMINATION OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT
6. Challenges and perspectives on age discrimination from the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales 127'
Heléna Herklots'
7. The role of national human rights institutions in combating age discrimination: from the perspective of the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland 148'
Anna Chabiera'
8. Challenges and perspectives on age discrimination outside employment in the European Union with a spotlight on Ireland 166'
Elaine Dewhurst'
9. Advancing equality for older persons in the provision of goods and services: drawing on the Australian experience 189'
Therese MacDermott

PART III CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF AGE DISCRIMINATION IN NATIONAL JURISDICTIONS'
10. Age discrimination law in Australia: challenges in realising protection from age discrimination 210'
Alysia Blackham'
11. Age discrimination: current and future issues in Japanese labour law 231'
Ryoko Sakuraba'
12. The United Kingdom legislation on age discrimination 252'
Declan O’Dempsey'
13. Age discrimination law in Canada: a challenging way forward 276'
Pnina Alon-Shenker'
14. Second class no longer: recognizing freedom from ageism as a fundamental right in the US 294'
Laurie A. McCann and Cathy Ventrell-Monsees