... European Convention on Human Rights states: 'the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in the Convention shall be secured with out discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political ,or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status'. I propose that it is the superficial notion of discrimination explicit in the above provisions that have been pre-supposed to be the entirety of the meaning of non-discrimination In this essay I argue that a somewhat expanded vision of non-discrimination needs to be enunciated in order to embrace the concept of differential treatment in a non-discrimination principle expertly put by Aristotle , there is cause for complaint 'when either equals have and are awarded unequal shares , or unequals equal shares'. The principles of non-discrimination contained in the above provisions are concerned with uniformity of treatment and thus correspond to ...

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