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Universal Minority Rights
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Author : Minority Rights Group
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Universal Minority Rights written by Minority Rights Group and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Law categories.
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Universal Minority Rights
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Author : Yasutomo Morigiwa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Universal Minority Rights written by Yasutomo Morigiwa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Minorities categories.
Universal Minority Rights
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Author : Yasutomo Morigiwa
language : en
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Release Date : 2004
Universal Minority Rights written by Yasutomo Morigiwa and has been published by Franz Steiner Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
"Proceedings of the fifth Kobe lectures, Tokyo and Kyoto, December 1998."--T.p.
Universal Minority Rights
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Author : Marc Weller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Universal Minority Rights written by Marc Weller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Human rights categories.
"This volume, published under the auspices of the European Centre for Minority Issues and the Centre of International Constitutional Studies, University of Cambridge, is dedicated to Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpact QC, CBE."--Page [v].
Universal Minority Rights A Transnational Approach
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Author : Yasutomo Morigiwa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Universal Minority Rights A Transnational Approach written by Yasutomo Morigiwa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
World Directory Of Minorities
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Author : Bridget Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Release Date : 1997-01-01
World Directory Of Minorities written by Bridget Anderson and has been published by Minority Rights Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Social Science categories.
This publication is the first version of the World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, published in 1997. The full Directory is now available and continually updated on our website. The large majority of violent conflicts in the world today are conflicts within states, with groups polarized across ethnic and religious divides and not across borders. Ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are often among the poorest of the poor, suffer discrimination and are frequently the victims of human rights abuses. Time and time again in the past, the United Nations system, governments and even non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the field of ‘conflict prevention’ have failed to promote the human rights of minorities or to take early action to promote cooperation between communities. Early action may have prevented the loss of millions of lives in many countries, ranging from Rwanda to the former Yugoslavia, and from Sri Lanka to Guatemala. It is also significant that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Dalai Lama in 1989 and to Jose´ Ramos-Horta and Bishop Carlos Belo in1996 as a result of their peaceful campaigns to promote the rights of their people. The situation of minorities is, then, a matter of major concern, and it is essential that accurate, objective and up-to-date information is made available. This Directory contributes to that process. It is difficult to assess accurately what proportion of the world’s population identify themselves as belonging to minority communities. Conservative estimates place this above 10 per cent, and some suggest that more than 20 per cent of the world’s population belongs to several thousand different minority groups and subgroups. National statistics are often skewed for political reasons, and there is no universally accepted definition of ‘minorities’. The word has different interpretations in different societies throughout the world, while the United Nations General Assembly has not sought to reach a definition beyond that implied in the title of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities adopted in December 1992. Minority Rights Group focuses its work on non-dominant ethnic, religious and linguistic communities, whether or not they are numerical minorities. The concept thus relates to any self-identified community that is marginalized, without power, unable to take decisions over its destiny and often experiencing high levels of illiteracy, under-education and overt or covert discrimination. The basic rights of such communities need protection and promotion. There is, however, a danger of generalizing about minorities and forgetting the complexity of their social composition, including the rural poor, urban migrants, older people, women and children. These groups may be considered as doubly vulnerable. What makes their situation particularly problematic is that there is often a deliberate political policy on the part of majorities and states not to give due regard to the legitimate interests of minorities, while members of minorities see their identity as central to their social and economic situation. They are often excluded from political power and decision-making in the development process, without equal opportunities to secure a better quality of life. One further danger may lie in regarding ethnicities as fixed, rather than as the potentially fluid phenomena that they often are. ‘Situational ethnicity’ does occur, and individuals and groups do modify their self-identifications depending on circumstances. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.
The United Nations Declaration On Minorities
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Author : Ugo Caruso
language : en
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Release Date : 2015-03-31
The United Nations Declaration On Minorities written by Ugo Caruso and has been published by Hotei Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-31 with Law categories.
Created in order to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992-2012), this publication aims to offer readers a comprehensive review, written by a variety of scholars in the field, of the value and impact of the standards formulated in the Declaration. In so doing, it hopes to stimulate attention for and debate around the Declaration and its principles. The regional perspectives and case studies included further enable the identification of positive initiatives and good practices as well as persistent gaps in the implementation of the standards enshrined in the Declaration.
Disability Divers Ability And Legal Change
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Author : Lee Ann Basser Marks
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-27
Disability Divers Ability And Legal Change written by Lee Ann Basser Marks and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-27 with Law categories.
This text ventures into the area where law and disability intersect. Drawing on developments in the emerging field of disability studies and on a new-found human rights perspective on disability, the contributions traverse topics as wide-ranging as citizenship, feminism, eugenics, euthanasia, and sexual abuse of people with disabilities, and analyze disability law at both a domestic and international level. Informed by the social model of disability, this work brings together academics and disability activists from Australia, Europe and North America. The book is interdisciplinary in nature, with contributors coming from sociology, education, law, geography, philosophy, and cultural studies.
Managing Babel The International Legal Protection Of Minorities In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Li-Ann Thio
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Managing Babel The International Legal Protection Of Minorities In The Twentieth Century written by Li-Ann Thio and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Law categories.
Minority protection is integral to a civilised standard of internal good governance. The goal of promoting friendly inter-group relations within states highlights the linkages between constitutionalism and the extending reach of international law in shaping domestic governance and structuring relations between the state, non-state communities and individuals. While law per se cannot guarantee the security and integrity of minority groups, law and legal institutions play a role in promoting a tolerant and pluralistic environment and a multicultural ethos that appreciates, rather than resents, ethno-cultural diversity. This book is a comprehensive, modern study of the important field of international protection of minority rights, focusing on 20th century developments. Minority rights regimes, which address the issue of group identity and autonomy, have essentially been a stabilising force, buttressing state survivability in the face of claims to self-determination or secession. These serve to promote the peaceful co-existence of distinct ethno-cultural groups, captured by the metaphor of ‘Babel’, within existing states. Despite overlaps, the content of minority protection is more modest than the claim of indigenous groups for collective rights or peoples’ rights to self-determination. As part of the contemporary corpus of human rights norms, minority protection may be appreciated as an aspect of the evolving content of the ‘internal’ dimension of the right to self-determination. Chapter 1 introduces some key definitional and conceptual problems in the field of minority protection and presents a brief historical review of international approaches up to 1919. Chapter 2 discusses the League of Nations era. Chapter 3 examines approaches towards minority protection after World War Two as reflected in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and efforts to protect minorities outside the UN regime. In this period, discussed in Chapters 4 and 5, minorities' issues remained largely submerged within the UN project of promoting universal individual human rights. Chapter 6 addresses the post-1989 revival in minorities' issues within the UN; Chapter 7 offers a succinct overview of what might be considered a parallel history with respect to the development of regional human rights schemes and what these afford to minority protection, closing with concluding observations. Meticulously researched, this volume offers a valuable synthesis of this important but often heart-breaking field.
Minorities And Human Rights Law
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Author : Patrick Thornberry
language : en
Publisher: Minority Rights Group Publications
Release Date : 1991
Minorities And Human Rights Law written by Patrick Thornberry and has been published by Minority Rights Group Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Law categories.
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