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Title The cultural dimension of human rights / edited by Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Series The collected courses of the Academy of European Law ; volume XXII/1
Collected courses of the Academy of European Law ; v. 22/1.
Contents Human rights between religions, cultures, and universality / Olivier Roy and Pasquale Annicchino -- Liberty, equality, diversity: states, culture, and international law / Ana Filipa Vrdoljak -- Protecting minority groups through Human Rights Courts: the interpretive role of European and Inter-American jurisprudence / Gaetano Pentassuglia -- Culture and the rights of indigenous peoples / Siegfried Wiessner -- The European Union and cultural rights / Evangelia Psychogiopoulou -- Culture, human rights, and the WTO / Tania Voon -- Cultural pluralism in international human rights law: the role of reservations / Yvonne Donders -- Suppressing and remedying offences against culture / Federico Lenzerini
Summary The intersections between culture and human rights have engaged some of the most heated and controversial debates across international law and theory. As understandings of culture have evolved in recent decades to encompass culture as ways of life, there has been a shift in emphasis from national cultures to cultural diversity within and across states. This has entailed a push to more fully articulate cultural rights within human rights law. This volume analyses a range of responses by international law, and particularly human rights law, to some of the thorniest, perennial, and sometimes viole
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human rights.
Minorities -- Civil rights.
Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation.
LAW -- International.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation
Human rights
Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights
Minorities -- Civil rights
Culture.
Human rights.
Cultural rights.
Philosophy of law.
Legal anthropology.
Sociology of law.
Minorities.
Indigenous peoples.
Form Electronic book
Author Vrdoljak, Ana Filipa, editor
ISBN 9780191004247
0191004243
9780191004230
0191004235
9780191770401
019177040X