Author: Boris VišinskiPublisher: Skopje : Macedonian Review Editions
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Ohrid Seminar on Minorities
Author: Boris VišinskiPublisher: Skopje : Macedonian Review Editions
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Ohrid Seminar on Minorities
Author: Boris VišinskiMinorities in the Balkans: state policy and interethnic relations (1804 - 2004)
Author: Bataković, Dušan T.Publisher: Balkanološki institut SANU
ISBN: 8671790681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Seminar on the promotion and protection of the human rights of national, ethnic and other minorities organized by the United Nations Division of Human Rights in cooperation with the Government of Yugoslavia
Author: Minority Rights and Liberal Democratic Insecurities
Author: Anna-Mária BíróPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000781429
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This book addresses the impact of a range of destabilising issues on minority rights in Europe and North America. This collection stems from the fact that liberal democracy did not bring about the “end of history” but rather that the transatlantic region of Europe and North America has encountered a new era of instability, particularly since the global financial crisis. The transatlantic region may have appeared to be entering a period of stability, but terrorist attacks on the soil of Euro-Atlantic states, the financial crisis itself and other changes, including mass migration, the rise of populism, changes in fundamental political conceptions, technological change, and most recently the Covid pandemic, have brought increasing uncertainties and instabilities in existing orders. In these contexts, the book investigates the resulting difficulties and opportunities for minority rights. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines who are engaged in work on various unstable orders, the book provides a unique and largely neglected perspective on present developments as well as addressing the pressing issue of the future of the minority rights regime at global, regional and national levels. This book will appeal to those with interests in minority rights, human rights, nationalism, law and politics.
The Protection of Minorities and Human Rights
Author: Yoram DinsteinPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004638784
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
From the dawn of modern international law, manifold treaties (especially peace treaties) have recognized the rights of specific minorities in specific territories. Today -- with Eastern Europe once more in turmoil and with minority groups all over the world clamouring for recognition -- there is a growing awareness that, irrespective of the observance of the fundamental freedoms of individuals, minority groups have their legitimate interests that must be appreciated and accommodated. This collection of essays grew out of an international legal colloquium, held at the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University in March 1990. Some of the papers have already been published in volume 20 of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, but others are printed here for the first time. The authors come from different parts of the world and represent different legal backgrounds. They are by no means at one in their analysis of the human rights of minority groups, but they all share the sense that problems of minorities cannot be brushed aside or glossed over. It is not too hazardous to forecast that these problems will actually intensify in the 21st century. Whereas they cannot be solved through exclusively legal means, international and constitutional lawyers must do their utmost to identify flash points and to offer at least some prescriptive guidelines. This is the principal purpose of the present volume.
International Protection of Minorities
Author: Satish ChandraPublisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
United Nations Seminar on the promotion and protection of human rights of national ethnic and other minorities
Author: Janko JeriThe Role of the Nation-State in the 21st Century: Human Rights, International Organisations and Foreign Policy
Author: Castermans-HollemanPublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004639802
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This collection of essays, contributed by his friends, pays tribute to the work of Peter R. Baehr, whose impressive career spans some 40 years of activity devoted to the cause of human rights. Although human rights remains the leitmotiv of Professor Baehr's career, the themes explored in this collection - the role of the nation-state in the 21st century, international organisations and foreign policy - are a reflection of the versatility of his work and the range of his interests. This volume thus offers the reader a stimulating collection of essays by a wide range of international experts on both the theory and the practice of human rights within the context of the nation-state of the 21st century.
Managing Babel: The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the Twentieth Century
Author: Li-Ann ThioPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047414950
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
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.