First Comprehensive Guide to European Non-discrimination Law

The European Court of Human Rights has launched the first Comprehensive Guide to European Non-discrimination law on the 21st of March, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The handbook based on case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice covers the history and the background of European Non-discrimination law, the groups protected under the law, the scope of the law and the categories and defences of discrimination.
The handbook, available from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Human Rights (FRA) website, targets legal professionals, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and law-enforcement officials. It is also aimed at organisations giving legal advice, such as human rights insititutions, equality bodies, or legal advice centers. The handbook is set to be available in almost all EU-languages as well as Croatian.
At the Handbook’s launch the Court President Jean-Paul Costa and FRA Director Morten Kjaerum emphasised that they hope the handbook would make access to justice easier for victims of discrimination and help resolve disputes at a state level. The simplified language of the handbook is expected to present the complicated system of European Non-discimination law in an easy-to-understand way: http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/research/publications/publications_en.htm