The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (the Commission) is mandated as a national human rights institution to uphold all of the human rights in the international human rights treaties. These include the right to culture. However, the Commission has found that little attention has been paid to cultural rights in human rights discourse. In particular, the promotion and protection of cultural rights in societies emerging from conflict is a neglected area. Little guidance exists for States, cultural stakeholders and such human rights actors as national human rights institutions as to how best to uphold cultural rights in such contexts. This gap is of particular concern for the promotion of cultural rights in Northern Ireland, a society th...
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This report was based on research commissioned by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in 20...
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On April 10, 1998, after thirty years of bloody conflict, political parties from all sides of the No...
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That a disconnect exists between ordinary people and the world of human rights academia, NGOs and IN...
The deliberate omission of minority rights from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is ...
For a long time, cultural rights were considered the ‘Cinderella of the human rights family’; neglec...
Shortly after the adoption of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity...
Cultural rights are becoming an increasingly important area of human rights discussion given the ass...
This report was based on research commissioned by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in 20...
In March 2021, the National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership in Scotland recommended a new lega...
This article explores the parameters of ‘culture’ as a Human Right – Cultural Rights – and culture i...
Ever since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 there has been a debate...
On April 10, 1998, after thirty years of bloody conflict, political parties from all sides of the No...
This article considers the possible inclusion of a right to cultural identity in a UK Bill of Rights...
Exploring peace demands rethinking many of the assumptions that have driven the field of peacebuildi...
In a society emerging from decades of political conflict, the role of human rights education in Nort...
Historically, culture has been treated as an object in international documents. One consequence of t...
The 1990s global campaign for women's human rights is most associated with achieving international r...
That a disconnect exists between ordinary people and the world of human rights academia, NGOs and IN...
The deliberate omission of minority rights from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is ...
For a long time, cultural rights were considered the ‘Cinderella of the human rights family’; neglec...
Shortly after the adoption of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity...
Cultural rights are becoming an increasingly important area of human rights discussion given the ass...