The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights

Edited by Ana Vrdoljak

Brings together leading scholars across a range of fields of international law whose work has informed contemporary debate on culture and human rights
Provides detailed coverage of legal and theoretical debates with examples drawn from jurisdictions in every region
A multi-disciplinary work enabling students and scholars, policy makers and human rights practitioners to compare and contrast diverse developements across multiple jurisdictions

The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights

Edited by Ana Vrdoljak

Description

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 violent confrontations fuelled by culture in relations between individuals, groups and the state in international society. Across the different issues tackled, the contributions are tied by one unifying thread - that culture is understood, protected and promoted not only for its physical manifestations. Rather, it is the relationship of culture to people, individually or in groups, and the diversity of these relationships which is being protected and promoted; hence, the fundamental overlap between culture and human rights.

The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights

Edited by Ana Vrdoljak

Introduction, Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
PART I
1. Religion, Culture and Human Rights, Pasquale Annichino and Olivier Roy
2. Liberty, equality, diversity: Culture, Human Rights and International Law, Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
PART II
3. Protecting Minority Groups Through Human Rights Courts: The Interpretive Role of the European and Inter-American Jurisprudence, Gaetano Pentassuglia
4. Culture and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Siegfried Wiessner
PART III
5. The EU and Cultural Rights, Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
6. Culture, Human Rights and the WTO, Tania Voon
7. Cultural Pluralism in International Human Rights Law: The Role of Reservations, Yvonne Donders
8. Suppressing and Remedying Offences against Culture, Federico Lenzerini

The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights

Edited by Ana Vrdoljak

Author Information

Ana Vrdoljak, Professor of Law, University of Technology, Sydney

Ana Filipa Vrdoljak is Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. She is a member of the International Law Association's Cultural Heritage Law Committee and Secretary of the International Cultural Property Society (U.S.).

Contributors:

Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, University of Technology Sydney
Pasquale Annichino, European University Institute
Olivier Roy, The University of Liverpool
Gaetano Pentassuglia, The University of Liverpool
Siegfried Wiessner, St. Thomas University School of Law
Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
Tania Voon, University of Melbourne
Yvonne Donders, Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)
Federico Lenzerini, University of Siena