Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium.

• Author: Fottrell, Deirdre.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bowring, Bill.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1999.; ©1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Multicultural Citizenship: A More Viable Framework for Minority Rights?
• Introduction
• The Problem of Definition in International Law
• More Recent European and International Norm-Creation
• A Liberal Understanding of Minority Rights
• The Theory Behind the Intransigence
• Critics of Liberalism
• The Possible Contribution of Realist Social Theory
• Conclusion
• 2. The Construction and Contingency of the Minority Concept
• Introduction
• Human Categories and Group Identity
• Overview of the Extant Norms
• The Construction of Difference
• Individuals and Collectivities
• Definitions of Minorities
• The Construction of Human Categories
• Cultural Criteria for Minority Identification
• The Racial Paradigm as a Legal Construct
• The Racial Paradigm as a Socio-Scientific Construct
• The Dialectics of Group Identification
• Challenges of Exclusion: The Example of Sexual Minorities
• The Socio-Scientific Concept of Sexual Minorities
• The Legal Concept of Sexual Minorities
• Towards Reconstruction
• Conclusion
• 3. Of Minors and Minorities
• Introduction
• Shared Characteristics
• Raising Standards of Protection
• Children's Minority and Group Rights
• Implementation
• Conclusion
• 4. Ascertaining a Minority Linguistic Group: Ireland as a Case-Study
• Introduction
• The Application of Contemporary Minority Linguistic Theory to Speakers of the Irish Language
• Towards a Definition of 'Minority'
• Minority Rights: To Individuals or to Groups?
• Affirmative or Positive Action
• Summary of the Relevant International Mechanisms under which Ireland has Assumed Obligations
• The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
• The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
• The Validity of International Protection at Universal Level
• Outline of European Policy on Linguistic Minorities
• The 'Conflict' between National and Minority
• Conclusion
• 5. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Some Reflections from a Scottish Gaelic Perspective
• Introduction
• The Scottish Gaels
• The Charter
• Guidance Provided by the Developing Law of Indigenous Peoples
• Summary
• 6. Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe: Old Dilemmas, New Solutions?
• Introduction
• Old Dilemmas
• New Solutions?
• Judicially Enforceable Rights vs Programme-Type Commitments
• The Legacy of the Past
• Other Objections
• Conclusions
• Postscript
• 7. The Human Rights and Minority Rights of the Kurds
• Introduction
• International Legal Obligations
• Turkish Constitutional and Legislative Provisions
• Extra-Legal Methods Used to Suppress the Kurdish Minority
• Legal Methods
• The Cases
• The Role of the Media
• The Role of Education
• The Problem of Political Participation
• The Destruction of Villages in South-east Turkey
• Conclusion
• 8. Ever Decreasing Circles: Affirmative Action and Special Measures under International Law
• Section 1 - What Does Affirmative Action Mean?
• Section 2 - Equality and Non discrimination under International Law
• The Discrimination Treaties
• Section 3 - Affirmative Action in the United States
• Conclusion
• 9. Educational Rights and the Definition of Minorities
• 10. Problems in Defining Minorities
• Section 1 - Introduction
• Section 2 - Understandings At The Universal And European Levels
• Section 3 - Some Conceptual Considerations
• The 'Individual Rights' Versus 'Collective Rights' Debate
• The Issue of Classification and/or Limitation by Type or Feature
• The Underlying Objective of Minority Rights.
• Section 4 - The Problems
• The Problem in General
• Some Specific Problems
• Section 5 - Conclusions
• Contributors
• Index.