Recognizing the Interdependence of Rights in the Antidiscrimination Context through the World Conference against Racism

Authors

Catherine Powell, Fordham University School of LawFollow
Jennifer H. Lee, Sanctuary For Families, Inc., Center for Battered Women's Legal Services

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Columbia Human Rights Law Review

Volume

34

Publication Date

2002

Keywords

World Conference Against Racism, WCAR, racial discrimination

Abstract

This background paper assesses the importance of integrating gender into efforts to address racial discrimination and related intolerance in the WCAR process. While this background paper primarily focuses on racial discrimination, the analysis may be applied to xenophobia and related intolerance where these experiences are "raced" experiences. Addressing these forms of intolerance in a comprehensive manner requires unmasking the ways in which race intersects with gender and other status. A gender analysis is needed to make racism more fully visible, because "racial discrimination does not always affect men and women equally or in the same way." Women often experience compounded or intersectional discrimination, in which their experience of gender discrimination intersects with race discrimination and related intolerance.

Recommended Citation

Catherine Powell and Jennifer H. Lee, Recognizing the Interdependence of Rights in the Antidiscrimination Context through the World Conference against Racism , 34 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 235 (2002-2003)
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/411