Annapurna Waughray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3422560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annapurna Waughray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annapurna |
| FAMILY NAME | Waughray |
| SIGNATURE | WAUGHRAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ensuring protection against caste discrimination in Britain
Section 97 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 requires the addition of caste to the Equality Act 2010 by secondary legislation as ‘an aspect of’ the protected characteristic of race; but despite being mandated, no secondary legislation has been introduced and the addition of caste remains contested by some academics, civil society organizations and politicians who question the adequacy of any definition of caste, the estimates of th…
Capturing Caste in Law
Journal Article Capturing Caste in Law: Caste Discrimination and the Equality Act 2010 Get access Annapurna Waughray Annapurna Waughray * Senior Lecturer in Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Rights Law Review, Volume 14, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 359–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngu012 Published: 13 May…
Challenging caste discrimination in Britain with literature and law
This essay, the collaborative product of a legal scholar and a literary critic, examines the relationship between Dalit literature and legal assertion in challenging caste discrimination in Britain. The construction of caste discrimination in India as an international human-rights issue from the late 1990s onwards has raised awareness of caste discrimination in Britain and given impetus to long-standing demands for caste discrimination in Britain…
Caste Discrimination and Minority Rights
India's Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables) number around 167 million or one-sixth of India's population. Despite constitutional and legislative prohibitions of Untouchability and discrimination on grounds of caste they continue to suffer caste-based discrimination and violence. Internationally, caste discrimination has been affirmed since 1996 by the UN committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as a form of racial discrimination …
Caste Discrimination
Discrimination based on caste affects at least 270 million people worldwide, mostly in South Asia. Caste as a system of social organisation has been exported from its regions of origin to diaspora communities such as the UK, yet despite the prohibition of caste‐based discrimination in international human rights law caste is not recognised as a ground of discrimination in English law. The overhaul of its equality framework and the proposed new sin…
Caste Discrimination and Minority Rights
India's Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables) number around 167 million or one-sixth of India's population. Despite constitutional and legislative prohibitions of Untouchability and discrimination on grounds of caste they continue to suffer caste-based discrimination and violence. Internationally, caste discrimination has been affirmed since 1996 by the UN committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as a form of racial discrimination …
Ensuring protection against caste discrimination in Britain
Section 97 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 requires the addition of caste to the Equality Act 2010 by secondary legislation as ‘an aspect of’ the protected characteristic of race; but despite being mandated, no secondary legislation has been introduced and the addition of caste remains contested by some academics, civil society organizations and politicians who question the adequacy of any definition of caste, the estimates of th…
Caste Discrimination
Discrimination based on caste affects at least 270 million people worldwide, mostly in South Asia. Caste as a system of social organisation has been exported from its regions of origin to diaspora communities such as the UK, yet despite the prohibition of caste‐based discrimination in international human rights law caste is not recognised as a ground of discrimination in English law. The overhaul of its equality framework and the proposed new sin…
Capturing Caste in Law
Journal Article Capturing Caste in Law: Caste Discrimination and the Equality Act 2010 Get access Annapurna Waughray Annapurna Waughray * Senior Lecturer in Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Rights Law Review, Volume 14, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 359–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngu012 Published: 13 May…
Challenging caste discrimination in Britain with literature and law
This essay, the collaborative product of a legal scholar and a literary critic, examines the relationship between Dalit literature and legal assertion in challenging caste discrimination in Britain. The construction of caste discrimination in India as an international human-rights issue from the late 1990s onwards has raised awareness of caste discrimination in Britain and given impetus to long-standing demands for caste discrimination in Britain…
Caste Discrimination
Discrimination based on caste affects at least 270 million people worldwide, mostly in South Asia. Caste as a system of social organisation has been exported from its regions of origin to diaspora communities such as the UK, yet despite the prohibition of caste‐based discrimination in international human rights law caste is not recognised as a ground of discrimination in English law. The overhaul of its equality framework and the proposed new sin…
Caste Discrimination and Minority Rights
India's Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables) number around 167 million or one-sixth of India's population. Despite constitutional and legislative prohibitions of Untouchability and discrimination on grounds of caste they continue to suffer caste-based discrimination and violence. Internationally, caste discrimination has been affirmed since 1996 by the UN committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as a form of racial discrimination …
Challenging caste discrimination in Britain with literature and law
This essay, the collaborative product of a legal scholar and a literary critic, examines the relationship between Dalit literature and legal assertion in challenging caste discrimination in Britain. The construction of caste discrimination in India as an international human-rights issue from the late 1990s onwards has raised awareness of caste discrimination in Britain and given impetus to long-standing demands for caste discrimination in Britain…
Capturing Caste in Law
Journal Article Capturing Caste in Law: Caste Discrimination and the Equality Act 2010 Get access Annapurna Waughray Annapurna Waughray * Senior Lecturer in Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Rights Law Review, Volume 14, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 359–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngu012 Published: 13 May…
Ensuring protection against caste discrimination in Britain
Section 97 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 requires the addition of caste to the Equality Act 2010 by secondary legislation as ‘an aspect of’ the protected characteristic of race; but despite being mandated, no secondary legislation has been introduced and the addition of caste remains contested by some academics, civil society organizations and politicians who question the adequacy of any definition of caste, the estimates of th…
Caste (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Discrimination and Equality Law (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)