Human rights in a pluralist world : individuals and collectivities /
Based on two international conferences on human rights : the first, held in Maastricht, Netherlands, Sept. 18-20, 1987, was sponsored by the Netherlands Commission for Unesco and the second, held in Middleburg, Netherlands, June 1-3, 1988, was sponsored by the Commission in collaboration with the Ro...
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Westport, Conn. :
Meckler,
1990
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No. 10 Roosevelt Study Center publications no. 10 Roosevelt Study Center publications ; No. 10 Roosevelt Study Center publications ; no. 10 Roosevelt Study Center publications no. 10 Roosevelt Study Center publications |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction item : the right to cultural identity / J. Herman Burgers
- Paper : the right to cultural identity / Rudolfo Stavenhagen
- Foreword / Federico Mayor
- The fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights : a time more for reflection than for celebration / Philip Alston
- The Universal Declaration in space and time / Asbjörn Eide
- Human rights as individual and as collective rights / Peter R. Baehr and Koo VanderWal
- Human rights, individual rights and collective rights / Jack Donnelly
- The function of human rights as individual and collective rights / J. Herman Burgers
- Three generations of human rights / Cees Flinterman
- Collective human rights : a Western view / Koo VanderWal
- Human rights and peoples' rights / Peter R. Baehr
- Social and religious attitudes toward human rights / Jan Berting and Cees Flinterman
- Understanding human rights in Africa / Olusola Ojo
- Asian cultures and human rights / Mochtar Lubis
- Human rights and liberties in Islam / Ahmad Farrag
- Islam and the ideals of the enlightenment / Willem F. Heinemeijer
- European culture, individual rights, collective rights / Guy Haarscher
- The socialist conception of human rights : the Polish perspective / Anna Michalska
- Social transformation and human rights / J. Herman Burgers and Rob Kroes
- Human rights and the acquisition of national sovereignty / Samuel O. Gyandoh, Jr.
- Societal change, human rights and the welfare state in Europe / Jan Berting
- The human rights tradition in the United States / Rob Kroes
- Western law and legal perceptions in the Third World / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
- The dialectics of Western law in a non-Western world / Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman