Description
In association with UNESCO
Published in 1998
206 Pages. ISBN:0-9531696-3-4
This book, celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, reflects a wide range of opinions on the current state and future development of the very complex issue of Cultural Rights. This is a matter of the gravest concern for indigenous peoples, authors and artists, speakers of minority languages and others.
What are cultural rights? Would their better definition and enforcement improve the lot of human beings in many prejudicial situations, beyond the protection they already have from existing human rights instruments? Why are ‘cultural’ rights so much more difficult to define than other human rights?
This collection of essays by authors representing all five continents shows clearly the differences in views of cultural rights, and the different approaches taken to them by scholars, legislators and citizens in different parts of the world.
Contents
Foreward
Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction
Cultural rights: a social science perspective
Rodolfo Stavenhagen
On the freedom of the author and the artist
Emmanuel Decaux
Can cultural rights protect traditional cultural knowledge and biodiversity?
Darrell Addison Posey
Enforcing indigenous cultural rights: Australia as a case-study
Elizabeth Evatt
Cultural rights, biodiversity and the indigenous heritage of Indian tribes in the United States
Dean B. Suagee
The right to a cultural past: African viewpoints
Folarin Shyllon
Linguistic rights in India
Vrajendra Raj Mehta
Perceptions of cultural rights in the People’s Republic of China
Alice Erh-Soon Tay
UNESCO and cultural rights
Kishore Singh
Understanding one another on cultural rights
Lyndel Prott
Casting the foundation for the implementation of cultural rights
Halina Nieć
Appendix A: Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Appendix B: Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples
Appendix C: Draft Declaration of Cultural Rights
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