Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
Core Issues and Cases
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2017
264 pages
978-1-4744-0119-7 (ISBN)
Description
How can universal human rights be reconciled with respect for wide cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universalism and difference can be reconciled into a single global vision.
Cast studies include: the rights of women, ethnic and national minorities, indigenous peoples and religious communities.
Issues addressed include: FGM, LGBT rights, freedom of speech and the rights of indigenous peoples
Student features include: core questions, suggestions for further reading and two-colour layout
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Content
- Intro
- HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A Defensible Universalism
- 2 Culture and Transcending Relativism
- 3 A Right to Cultural Identity
- 4 The Rights of Women - Patriarchy, Harm and Empowerment
- 5 The Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities
- 6 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- 7 Religion and Human Rights
- 8 Working On a Dream?
- Bibliography
- Index
