Volume XV: Labour Law | Chapter 10 (1990): Equality of Treatment in Employment
Completed January 1986
Roger Blanpain
A. Development
3. Individual equality is a long-standing aspiration, underlying inter alia the american Declaration of Independence of 4 July 1776 which proclaimed “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights” and the french Declaration of Human Rights of 1789 which stated that “all men are and shall be born free and equal before the…
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Roger Blanpain,
“II. Development and Sources of Regulation”, in:
International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Online, Edited by: U. Drobnig, R. David, H. H. Egawa, R. Graveson, V. Knapp, A. T. Von Mehren, Y. Noda, S. Rozmaryn, V. M. Tschchikvadze, H. Valladão, H. Yntema, K. Zweigert.
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