Human Rights in Education, Science and Culture
Legal Developments and Challenges
Published on 21. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7546-7313-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume focuses on economic, social and cultural rights within the competence of UNESCO. These include the right to education, right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications and the right to take part in cultural life. The work provides a combination of insight on the content, scope of application and corresponding State obligations of these rights, based on the international human rights legal framework, and examinations of specific aspects relating to their implementation.This book illuminates an area of rights study that has hitherto been neglected. It will be a valuable resource for all those interested in human rights generally.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-7313-2 (9780754673132)
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UNESCO -. Yvonne Donders | Vladimir Volodin
Human Rights in Education, Science and Culture
Legal Developments and Challenges
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Persons
Dr Yvonne Donders is Deputy Director of the Amsterdam Centre for International Law at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She was previously Programme Specialist in the Division of Human Rights and Struggle Against Discrimination of UNESCO's Secretariat. She is a former vice-chair of the Dutch United Nations Association. Vladimir Volodin is Chief of Human Rights and Gender Equality Section at UNESCO. As a diplomat and international civil servant he was heavily involved with human rights sessions, including the UN General Assembly, ECOSOC, the commission on Human Rights and its Sub-Commission as well as working and drafting groups, and treaty monitoring bodies.
Content
Foreword; Introduction; Interdependence and indivisibility of human rights, Asbjorn Eide; The justiciability of socio-economic rights: experience and problems, Frans Viljoen; The status of the development of indicators for economic, social and cultural rights with particular emphasis to the rights to education, participation in cultural life, and access to the benefits of science, Audrey R. Chapman; The applicability of human rights between private parties, Christian Courtis; Content and scope of the right to education as a human right and obstacles to its realization, Fons Coomans; The legal framework of the right to take part in cultural life, Yvonne Donders; Study of the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific and technological progress and its application, William A. Schabas; Conclusion; Index.