Cultural human rights / / edited by Francesco Francioni, Martin Scheinin.

What is the relationship between culture and human rights? Can the idea of cultural rights, which are predicated on the distinctiveness and exclusivity of a community’s beliefs and traditions, be compatible with the concept of human rights, which are universal and ‘inherent’ to all human beings? If...

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Superior document:International studies in human rights ; 95
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:International studies in human rights ; 95.
Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin
  • Preface / Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin
  • Contents / Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin
  • 1 Culture, Heritage and Human Rights: an Introduction / Francesco Francioni
  • 2 The Cross-Cultural Legitimacy of Universal Human Rights: Plural Justification across Normative Divides / Tore Lindholm
  • 3 Self-Determination and Cultural Rights / Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
  • 4 Cultural Rights: a Necessary Corrective to the Nation State / William K. Barth
  • 5 Protecting Peoples’ Cultural Rights: a Question of Properly Understanding the Notion of States and Nations? / Matthias Ahrén
  • 6 Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Rights and the Controversy over Commercial Use of Their Traditional Knowledge / Federico Lenzerini
  • 7 The Right of a People to Enjoy Its Culture: towards a Nordic Saami Rights Convention / Martin Scheinin
  • 8 Cultural Identity and Legal Status: or, the Return of the Right to Have (Particular) Rights / Eniko Horvath
  • 9 Minorities’ Right to Maintain and Develop Their Cultures: Legal Implications of Social Science Research / Timo Makkonen
  • 10 The Role of the State in Balancing Religious Freedom with Other Human Rights in a Multicultural European Context / Stéphanie Lagoutte and Eva Maria Lassen
  • 11 Accessing Culture at the EU Level: an Indirect Contribution to Cultural Rights Protection? / Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
  • 12 Language Rights as Cultural Rights: a European Perspective by Susanna Mancini and Bruno De Witte / Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin
  • 13 The Place of Cultural Rights in the WTO System / John Morijn
  • 14 A Right to Cultural Identity in UNESCO / Yvonne Donders
  • 15 Political Change and the ‘Creative Destruction’ of Public Space / Sanford Levinson
  • Notes on Contributors / Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin
  • Subject Index / Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin
  • Index of Case Law / Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin.