Human Rights, Culture and Context

Human Rights, Culture and Context
Author: Richard Wilson
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1997
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Drawing on case studies from around the world - including Iran, Guatemala, USA and Mexico - this collection documents how transnational human rights discourses and legal institutions are materialised, imposed, resisted and transformed in a variety of contexts.

Cultural Rights in International Law

Cultural Rights in International Law
Author: Elsa Stamatopoulou
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004157522

Drawing from a comprehensive review of legal instruments, practice, jurisprudence and literature, and using a multidisciplinary approach, this unique book brings forth the full spectrum of cultural rights, as individual and collective human rights, and offers a compelling vision for public policy.

Culture and Rights

Culture and Rights
Author: Jane K. Cowan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001-11-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521797351

Part I: Setting universal rights

Human Rights in Global Perspective

Human Rights in Global Perspective
Author: Jon P. Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134409745

In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of Western values onto largely non-Western communities? Human Rights in a Global Perspective develops a social critique of rights agendas. It provides an understanding of how rights discussions and institutions can construct certain types of subjects such as victims and perpetrators, and certain types of act, such as common crimes and crimes against humanity. Using examples from the United States, Europe, India and South Africa, the authors restore the social dimension to rights processes and suggest some ethical alternatives to current practice.

The Universalism of Human Rights

The Universalism of Human Rights
Author: Rainer Arnold
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9400745109

Is there universalism of human rights? If so, what are its scope and limits? This book is a doctrinal attempt to define universalism of human rights, as well as its scope and limits. The book presents tests of universalism on international, regional and national constitutional levels. It is maintained that universalism of human rights is both a ‘concept’ and a ‘normative reality’. The normative character of human rights is scrutinized through the study of international and regional agreements as well as national constitutions. As a consequence, limitations of normativity are identified, usually on the international level, and take the form of exceptions, reservations, and interpretations. The book is based on the General and National Reports which were originally presented at the 18th International Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Washington D.C. 2010.

Human Rights Culture in Indonesia

Human Rights Culture in Indonesia
Author: Maksimus Regus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 311069607X

Drawing on human rights discourse and a study of the difficulties faced by religious minority groups (using the Ahmadiyya minority group as a case study), this book presents three interconnected challenges to human rights culture in Indonesia. First, it presents a normative challenge, describing the gap between philosophical and normative principles of human rights on one side and the overall problems and critical issues of human rights at national and local levels on the other. Second, it considers the political problems in developing and strengthening human rights culture. The political challenge addresses the ability (or inability) of the state to guarantee the rights of certain individuals and minority groups. Third, it examines the sociological challenge of majority-minority group relationships in human rights discourse and practices. This book describes the background of human rights in Indonesia and reviews the previous literature on the issue. It also presents a comprehensive review of the discourses about human rights and political changes in contemporary Indonesia. The analysis focuses on how human rights challenges affect the situation of religious minorities, looking in particular at the Ahmadiyya as a minority group that experiences human rights violations such as discrimination, persecution, and violence. The study fills out its treatment of these issues by examining the involvement of actors both from the state and society, addressing also the politics of human rights protection.

Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector

Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector
Author: Jack Frawley
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811553629

This open access book explores cultural competence in the higher education sector from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. It addresses cultural competence in terms of leadership and the role of the higher education sector in cultural competence policy and practice. Drawing on lessons learned, current research and emerging evidence, the book examines various innovative approaches and strategies that incorporate Indigenous knowledge and practices into the development and implementation of cultural competence, and considers the most effective approaches for supporting cultural competence in the higher education sector. This book will appeal to researchers, scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and general readers interested in cultural competence policy and practice.

Cultural Rights as Human Rights

Cultural Rights as Human Rights
Author: Unesco
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1970
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

UNESCO pub. Conference report on the cultural factors of human rights - includes papers and records of discussions on the concept of cultural rights in developed countries and developing countries, and covers trends, the impact of tradition, education, mass media, economic development, etc. On cultural change, etc. Conference held in Paris 1968 jul 8 to 13.

International Human Rights in Context

International Human Rights in Context
Author: Henry J. Steiner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1300
Release: 1996
Genre: Civil rights
ISBN:

This major work offers a range of new cases and materials which help to explain the law of human rights in a broad context.