Articles for tag: affirmative action, Bangladesh, gender equality, Substantive Equality

On the Basis of ‘Backwardness’

Following the reinstatement of a quota system that reserved 56% of vacancies in public service posts for former freedom fighters by the High Court of Bangladesh, students in Bangladesh have demanded reformation of the quota system.  On 21 July, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh overturned the decision by the High Court and ordered the government to limit the quota to 7%. It thereby eliminated the quota of 10%  previously reserved for women. This reflects a dangerously narrow conception of equality which could negatively impact Bangladesh’s use of special measures such as quotas to redress women’s subordinated status.

12. August 2024

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Racial Profiling is unconstitutional

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It can be debated, whether it merely constitutes an act of “highbrow legalism” (as the chairman of the German Police Union put it) to enforce the non-discrimination rule in art. 3 par. 3 of the German Grundgesetz. The Superior Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate in the city of Koblenz, however, ordered the supremacy of the Constitution over alleged necessities of police practice. What had happened? In December 2010, an architecture student took a train from Kassel to Frankfurt, when two federal police officers entered the train to search for illegal immigrants. Said student turned out to be the only person on ... continue reading

31. Oktober 2012

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