Human Rights In Culturally Diverse Societies

Author : Matthias Koenig,Paul F. A. Guchteneire
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231040504

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Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies by Matthias Koenig,Paul F. A. Guchteneire Pdf

By unanimous adoption of the Universal Declaration of Cultural Diversity, the UNESCO Member States accepted a new ethical approach to respect diversity as a guiding principle for democratic societies. While support for the Declaration remains strong, there is a general awareness that the democratic management of multicultural societies needs rethinking and further development. This publication examines the political governance of cultural diversity, specifically how public policy-making has dealt with the claims for cultural recognition that have increasingly been expressed by ethno-national movements, language groups, religious minorities, indigenous peoples and migrant communities. Its principle aim is to understand, explain and assess public policy responses to ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity. Adopting interdisciplinary perspectives of comparative social sciences, the contributors address the conditions, forms, and consequences of democratic and human-rights-based governance of multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-faith societies.--Publisher's description.

Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Human rights in culturally diverse societies by Council of Europe Pdf

This updated publication contains the Committee of Ministers’ guidelines to member States on the protection and promotion of human rights in culturally diverse societies as well as the Compilation of Council of Europe standards relating to the principles of freedom of thought, conscience and religion and links to other human rights upon which the Guidelines are inspired. These standards are based mainly on the European Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, but also on conclusions and recommendations of other monitoring mechanisms and other Council of Europe bodies. The Guidelines are innovative as they do not consider these standards in isolation, rather they rethink and recast them through their interaction with other human rights: freedom of expression, freedom of association and assembly, the right to private life. They are intended as a realistic and usable tool which reflects the often complex interplay of different rights within diverse societies.

Author : François Crépeau
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781443863780

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Human Rights and Diverse Societies by François Crépeau Pdf

Over sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it has been widely observed that human rights resonate differently in various settings. This book addresses the timely and important question of how to understand human rights in a world of increasing diversity. The effects of globalization and the increasing mobility of persons and peoples have further deepened and multiplied the sites of interaction between different cultures, religions and ethnicities. These changes have been a source of enrichment, as multiculturalism, interculturalism and diversity permeate our daily lives. Yet, they have also revealed important societal cleavages, different conceptualizations of human rights, and divergent values and beliefs about moral, ethical, cultural and religious issues. In societies characterized by diverse social, ethnic, religious and cultural communities, it becomes critical to examine how to reconcile the tensions between respect for group-based identities and differences, the robust protections of individual rights and freedoms, and the maintenance of community solidarity and social cohesion. It is these tensions, mediated through debates about the interaction between human rights and diversity, that this book addresses. Eschewing any simple reconciliation of human rights and universalism, this book aspires to identify alternative frameworks that can facilitate the conceptualization of, and help find solutions to, the complex global human rights issues in diverse societies. In engaging with both the theoretical perspectives that question the 'universality' of human rights as well as assessing the practicality of diverse applications of human rights, this collection of essays explores how human rights can be employed to empower historically excluded and marginalized groups. Taking diversity into account in thinking about the universal aspirations of human rights protection requires us to reframe the question. Rather than asking whether human rights are universal, we need to ask how the universal principles underlying human rights are practically and tangibly realized in diverse contexts and communities. Through critical reflection and a reexamination of the concepts, categories, institutions and frontiers of human rights, this book contributes to an ongoing dialogue about human rights discourse and theory. Yet beyond its contribution to scholarly debates, it is our hope that this book will contribute to the development of concrete, tangible and institutional strategies for advancing the protection of human rights in diverse societies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1253744727

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Human Rights in Culturally Diverse Societies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthias Koenig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351569866

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Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies by Matthias Koenig Pdf

Published in association with UNESCO, Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies examines the political governance of cultural diversity, specifically how public policy-making has dealt with the claims for cultural recognition that have increasingly been expressed by ethno-national movements, language groups, religious minorities, indigenous peoples and migrant communities. Its principle aim is to understand, explain and assess public-policy responses to ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity. Adopting interdisciplinary perspectives of comparative social sciences, the contributors address the conditions, forms, and consequences of democratic and human-rights-based governance of multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-faith societies.

Author : Michele Langfield,William Logan,Mairead Nic Craith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135190705

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Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights by Michele Langfield,William Logan,Mairead Nic Craith Pdf

This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights. It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights in one volume. Heritage provides the basis of humanity’s rich cultural diversity. While there is a considerable literature dealing separately with cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights, this book is distinctive and has contemporary relevance in focusing on the intersection between the three concepts. Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights establishes a fresh approach that will interest students and practitioners alike and on which future work in the heritage field might proceed.

Author : Andrew Fagan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474401197

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Human Rights and Cultural Diversity by Andrew Fagan Pdf

A student guide to reconciling human rights with cultural difference, using political philosophy and real-life case studiesHow can universal human rights be reconciled with respect for wide cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universalism and difference can be reconciled into a single global vision.Key FeaturesCombines the theory and application of human rights to provide practical help for students and course leadersKey case studies examine the rights of women, ethnic and national minorities, indigenous peoples and religious communitiesAddresses a broad range of on-going political struggles and issues, including FGM, LGBT rights, freedom of speech and the rights of indigenous peoplesOutlines a new human rights-based philosophical perspective that enables students to understand human rights within culturally diverse environmentsHelpful student features include:Core questions: each chapter starts with 10 core questions, which students are invited to answer as they read to put what they learn into practiceFurther reading: every chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, to help students deepen their study in particular areasTwo-colour layout: blue text boxes and headings draw your attention to important information and make the book easier to read

Author : Gaetano Pentassuglia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004328785

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Ethno-Cultural Diversity and Human Rights by Gaetano Pentassuglia Pdf

Drawing from diverse scholarship in international law, legal and moral philosophy, and political science, Ethno-Cultural Diversity and Human Rights brings prominent experts together to address contested dimensions of the role of ethno-cultural groups in human rights discourse.

Author : Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez,Robert Dunbar
Publisher : Universidad de Deusto
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788498307924

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Human Rights and Diversity: New Challenges for Plural Societies by Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez,Robert Dunbar Pdf

The democratic management of cultural diversity is the greatest political challenge for present-day European societies. The plural character of our societies forces us to rethink the basic political concepts, starting off from a new idea of inclusive and plural d¬emocracy. The application of human rights must be reconsidered in the light of presentday reality so that democratic states are able to guarantee the benefi t of these rights to all persons through their identity and not in spite of it, thus creating political spaces that are open to a multi-identity coexistence.

Author : James Lynch,Celia Modgil,Sohan Modgil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317938934

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Human Rights, Education & Global Responsibilities by James Lynch,Celia Modgil,Sohan Modgil Pdf

First published in 1992. This is Volume 4 of a series of four on Cultural Diversity and the Schools and focusses on Human Rights, Education and Global Responsibilities. One of the major problems facing societies in almost all parts of the world is the inadequate accommodation of social equity with cultural diversity. The crisis emanating from neglect of this issue can be seen in societies as different and wide apart as the Soviet Union, India, Pakistan, the United States and the United Kingdom. This series seeks to contribute, through joint publication and the stimulation of greater discourse, to identify the pathways to a less selfish and parochial response to the continuing dilemma of equity and diversity, not solely within the nation state, but also internationally.

Author : Elsa Stamatopoulou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004157521

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Cultural Rights in International Law by Elsa Stamatopoulou Pdf

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.

Author : Neus Torbisco Casals
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781402042096

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Group Rights as Human Rights by Neus Torbisco Casals Pdf

Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group rights as illiberal. Group Rights as Human Rights argues that such a rejection is misguided. Based on a thorough analysis of the concept of group rights, it proposes to overcome the dominant dichotomy between "individual" human rights and "collective" group rights by recognizing that group rights also serve individual interests. It also challenges the claim that group rights, so understood, conflict with the liberal principle of neutrality; on the contrary, these rights help realize the neutrality ideal as they counter cultural biases that exist in Western states. Group rights deserve to be classified as human rights because they respond to fundamental, and morally important, human interests. Reading the theories of Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor as complementary rather than opposed, Group Rights as Human Rights sees group rights as anchored both in the value of cultural belonging for the development of individual autonomy and in each person’s need for a recognition of her identity. This double foundation has important consequences for the scope of group rights: it highlights their potential not only in dealing with national minorities but also with immigrant groups; and it allows to determine how far such rights should also benefit illiberal groups. Participation, not intervention, should here be the guiding principle if group rights are to realize the liberal promise.

Author : Dunne Michael Dunne
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781474467919

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Citizenship and Rights in Multicultural Societies by Dunne Michael Dunne Pdf

This topical book examines the debates around contemporary conflicts between liberal democracies and increasingly vociferous special interest groups within society. It analyses the way a new sense of difference and the growth of multi-culturalism are straining modern notions of citizenship and rights, looking in particular at how ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe have escalated to international tragedies, while in the US and Canada, race, ethnicity and radical feminism are at the heart of a social conflict which challenges national identity and the unity of the state.

Author : Malcolm Evans,Anne Weber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047426219

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Council of Europe Manuals - Human Rights in Culturally Diverse Societies (2 vols.) by Malcolm Evans,Anne Weber Pdf

The origins of these Manuals lie in the increasing interest and importance of questions concerning the manner in which the freedom of religion and belief is to be enjoyed in Europe today, and how freedom of expression can be reconciled with other rights in a multi-cultural society. These volumes, written by human rights experts and commissioned by the Council of Europe, offer an overview of two contentious topics - the wearing of religious symbols in public areas and the issue of hate speech - and supply insight into key concepts in the jurisprudence of the Court, the role and responsibilities of the state and individuals, key definitions and essential questions for policy makers.

Author : Kirsten Hastrup
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480773

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Legal Cultures and Human Rights by Kirsten Hastrup Pdf

Cultural diversity, as expressed for instance in different normative orders or legal cultures, poses both a practical and a theoretical challenge to the idea of universal human rights. In the present volume, the authors seek to address and contain this challenge with a view to the changing nature of the global society. While 'culture' is sometimes signposted as an obstacle to human rights on the ground, this volume suggests that in so far as the global 'culture of human rights' is primarily seen as a formal and institutional order based on a particular view of equal human worth, local cultures cannot trump it. The main point is that the culture of human rights is inclusive of all and must maintain a standard by which all peoples and cultures can measure their own performances. Further, and as demonstrated in the present volume from a range of disciplines such as law, literature, history and anthropology, culture is not a mental prison but a particular outlook upon the world, for ever changing in response to new experiences and insights.