Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Professor Yoram Dinstein and Dr. Mala Tabory -- International Legal Colloquium on the Protection of Minorities and Human Rights / Professor Yoram Dinstein and Dr. Mala Tabory -- Introduction / Yoram Dinstein -- The Definition of Minorities in International Law / Malcolm N. Shaw -- Are Human Rights Legal? / Alfred P. Rubin -- Can Minorities Treaties Work? / Richard B. Bilder -- Toward a Minority Convention: Its Need and Content / Stephen J. Roth -- The Legal Status of Population Groups in a Multinational State Under Public International Law / Kay Hailbronner -- Freedom of Religion and the Protection of Religious Minorities / Yoram Dinstein -- Notes Toward an Idea: Freedom of Speech and Minorities in the United States / Lee C. Bollinger -- Minority Rights in the Csce Context / Mala Tabory -- The 1989 Ilo Convention on Indigenous Populations: New Standards? / Natan Lerner -- On Being Overly Discrete And Insular: Involuntary Groups and the Anglo-American Judicial Tradition / Aviam Soifer -- Surviving in Babel? Language Rights And European Integration / Bruno de Witte -- A Tribe is a Tribe is a Tribe - On Changing Social Science Concepts And Emerging Human Rights / Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff -- Protection of the Aborigines in Australia: Law And Practice / Chava Shachor-Landau -- Minorities And Terrorism: Some Legal And Strategic Perspectives / Yonah Alexander -- The Arabs of Israel: Between Hammer and Anvil / Ori Stendel -- International Protection of Minorities: The Soviet Perspective / Vladimir A. Kartashkin -- Jews in the Ussr: A Minority at Crossroads / Zvi Magen -- Nationalities and Minorities in the Yugoslav Federation / Vojin Dimitrijević -- Minority Protection in Hungary - Hungarian Minorities Abroad / László Valki -- The Rights of the German Speaking Population of the South Tyrol / Otto Triffterer -- Syria: A Case of Minority Might / Itamar Rabinovich -- Are Minorities Entitled to Collective International Rights? / Francesco Capotorti -- The Protection of Minorities and Human Rights / Shabtai Rosenne -- Chronology of Treaties / Professor Yoram Dinstein and Dr. Mala Tabory -- Index of Cases / Professor Yoram Dinstein and Dr. Mala Tabory -- Name Index / Professor Yoram Dinstein and Dr. Mala Tabory -- Subject Index / Professor Yoram Dinstein and Dr. Mala Tabory.

From the dawn of modern international law, manifold treaties (especially peace treaties) have recognized the rights of specific minorities in specific territories. Today -- with Eastern Europe once more in turmoil and with minority groups all over the world clamouring for recognition -- there is a growing awareness that, irrespective of the observance of the fundamental freedoms of individuals, minority groups have their legitimate interests that must be appreciated and accommodated. This collection of essays grew out of an international legal colloquium, held at the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University in March 1990. Some of the papers have already been published in volume 20 of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights , but others are printed here for the first time. The authors come from different parts of the world and represent different legal backgrounds. They are by no means at one in their analysis of the human rights of minority groups, but they all share the sense that problems of minorities cannot be brushed aside or glossed over. It is not too hazardous to forecast that these problems will actually intensify in the 21st century. Whereas they cannot be solved through exclusively legal means, international and constitutional lawyers must do their utmost to identify flash points and to offer at least some prescriptive guidelines. This is the principal purpose of the present volume.

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