Cultural human rights /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.
Description:viii, 369 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:International studies in human rights ; v. 95
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6813261
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Other authors / contributors:Francioni, Francesco.
Scheinin, Martin.
ISBN:9789004162945 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004162941 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Culture, Heritage and Human Rights: An Introduction
  • 2. The Cross-Cultural Legitimacy of Universal Human Rights: Plural Justification across Normative Divides
  • 3. Self-Determination and Cultural Rights
  • 4. Cultural Rights: A Necessary Corrective to the Nation State
  • 5. Protecting Peoples' Cultural Rights: A Question of Properly Understanding the Notion of States and Nations?
  • 6. Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Rights and the Controversy over Commercial Use of Their Traditional Knowledge
  • 7. The Right of a People to Enjoy Its Culture: Towards a Nordic Saami Rights Convention
  • 8. Cultural Identity and Legal Status: Or, the Return of the Right to Have (Particular) Rights
  • 9. Minorities' Right to Maintain and Develop Their Cultures: Legal Implications of Social Science Research
  • 10. The Role of the State in Balancing Religious Freedom with Other Human Rights in a Multicultural European Context
  • 11. Accessing Culture at the EU Level: An Indirect Contribution to Cultural Rights Protection?
  • 12. Language Rights as Cultural Rights: A European Perspective
  • 13. The Place of Cultural Rights in the WTO System
  • 14. A Right to Cultural Identity in UNESCO
  • 15. Political Change and the 'Creative Destruction' of Public Space
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Subject Index
  • Index of Case Law