'Doing intersectionality' through International Human Rights Law : substantive International Human Rights Law as an effective avenue towards implementing intersectionality to counter structural oppression? Universiteit Gent
Intersectionality’s roots in anti-discrimination law were essential to its conception and development. However, anti-discrimination law is, by nature, tied to formal equality, exacerbates some of intersectionality’s most criticised aspects, and is ill-equipped to implement a more structural/systemic vision of intersectionality. Substantive IHRL, by contrast, may be better suited to implement some of intersectionality’s most promising elements. ...