Cultural rights [Recurs electrònic] : What they are, why they matter, how they can be realized

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Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs

Publication details: New York : Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 2005Description: 39 pISBN:

0876410557

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Summary: This issue of Human Rights Dialogue -the final issue in Series Two- focuses upon the evolving concept of cultural rights. It explores its potential effectiveness in advancing the human rights claims of ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, and other cultural communities. In doing so it aims to show that cultural rights are fundamental to the protection of all other human rights. In recent years the complex issue of cultural rights as a dimension of human rights has come to the fore of global concern. As the United Nations Development Program’s 2004 Human Development Report asserts, “managing cultural diversity is one of the central challenges of our time.” (…) (Font: Introducció)

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Introduction -- Sec. 1. The case for cultural rights: Rethinking cultural genocide under international law / David Nersessian ; “This forest is ours” / Muthee Thuku ; Language rights and Guarani renaissance in Bolivia / Bret Gustafson ; The stolen generation: aboriginal children in Australia / Danielle Celermajer -- Sec. 2. Claims, claimants, and conflict: Women’s rights as cultural rights: the case of the Irish travellers / Niamh Reilly ; A Chinese lesson on cultural rights / Xiaorong Li ; Cultural rights in the age of the war on terror / Kristen Ghodsee, Christian Filipov ; When rites are rights: cultural challenges to marriage laws / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Sec. 3. Institutionalization and standardization: The distinctive culture test / Avigail Eisenberg ; A European experiment in protecting cultural rights / Will Kymlicka ; The U.N. Human Rights Committee’s Decisions / Dinah Shelton ; Cultural rights and intellectual property debates / Rosemary Coombe

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