Global minority rights
By: edited by Joshua Castellino
Series: The international library of essays on rights; International library of essays on rights
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 631
ISBN-13: 9781409424635
Subjects: Human rights; Legal status, laws; Minorities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Historical background : international law moves from protection of particular groups to norms of an universal character / Patrick Thornberry; title: Minorities and the League of Nations in interwar Europe / Mark Mazower; title: The internationalization of minority rights / Will Kymlicka; title: Part II. Conceptual development of minority rights law; title: The bases of minority identity / Philip Vuciri Ramaga; title: To bellow like a cow : women, ethnicity and the discourse of rights / Radhika Coomaraswamy; title: The idea of human rights as perceived in the Ottoman Empire / Berdal Aral; title: Part III. Comtemporary challenges of minority rights law; title: The headscarf affair : the Conseil d'État on the role of religion and culture in French society / Elisa T. Beller; title: Tiptoeing through a constitutional minefield : the great Sharia controversy in Nigeria / Andrew Ubaka Iwobi; title: The new economic policy and interethnic relations in Malaysia / Jomo K.S.; title: Part IV. Fundamental norms in the protection of monorities; title: Merit principles / Christopher McCrudden; title: Reversing discrimination / Sandra Fredman; title: Comprehensive examination of thematic issues relating to the elimination of racial discrimination : the concept and practice of affirmative action / Marc Bossyut; title: Part V. Specific rights of minorities; title: The emerging right to democratic governance /  Thomas M. Franck; title: Justice and reparations / Howard McGary; title: Multiculturalism and minority rights : West and East / Will Kymlicka; title: Equality and non-discrimination : fundamental principles of minority language rights / Fernand de Varennes; title: Part VI. Human rights law and minority rights law; title: A critical evaluation of international human rights approaches to racism / Kevin Boyle and Anneliese Baldaccini; title: Reinforcing marginalized rights in an age of globalization : international mechanisms, non-state actors, and the struggle for peoples' rights in Africa / J. Oloka-Onyango; title: "Righting," restructuring, and rejuvenating the postcolonial African state : the case for the establishment of an AU Special Commission on National Minorities / Obiora Chinedu Okafor; title: Minorities, poverty and the Millennium Development Goals : assessing global issues / Gay McDougall.