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Home Introduction (Opens new window) Membership Seminars Publications Art Antiquity & Law Distance Learning and Intensive Courses Situations Vacant Links Contact Us		Cultural Rights & Wrongs in association with UNESCO Published in 1998 206 Pages. ISBN:0-9531696-3-4 This book, celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, reflects a wide range of opinions on the current state and future development of the very complex issue of Cultural Rights. This is a matter of the gravest concern for indigenous peoples, authors and artists, speakers of minority languages and others. What are cultural rights? Would their better definition and enforcement improve the lot of human beings in many prejudicial situations, beyond the protection they already have from existing human rights instruments? Why are ‘cultural’ rights so much more difficult to define than other human rights? This collection of essays by authors representing all five continents shows clearly the differences in views of cultural rights, and the different approaches taken to them by scholars, legislators and citizens in different parts of the world. Contents Foreward Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO Abbreviations Contributors Introduction Cultural rights: a social science perspective Rodolfo Stavenhagen On the freedom of the author and the artist Emmanuel Decaux Can cultural rights protect traditional cultural knowledge and biodiversity? Darrell Addison Posey Enforcing indigenous cultural rights: Australia as a case-study Elizabeth Evatt Cultural rights, biodiversity and the indigenous heritage of Indian tribes in the United States Dean B. Suagee The right to a cultural past: African viewpoints Folarin Shyllon Linguistic rights in India Vrajendra Raj Mehta Perceptions of cultural rights in the People's Republic of China Alice Erh-Soon Tay UNESCO and cultural rights Kishore Singh Understanding one another on cultural rights Lyndel Prott Casting the foundation for the implementation of cultural rights Halina Nieć Appendix A: Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Appendix B: Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples Appendix C: Draft Declaration of Cultural Rights Select Bibliography Cultural Rights & Wrongs is available at a cost of £10 including postage & packing within the United Kingdom  UK Orders - £10  Orders to Europe - £10 plus £2 p&p  Outside Europe - £10 plus £4 p&p Send comments to webmaster@ial.uk.com © The Institute of Art and Law 1995-2008