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100 1 _aThio, Li-Ann,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aManaging Babel: The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the Twentieth Century /
_cLi-Ann Thio.
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBrill | Nijhoff,
_c2005.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aInternational Studies in Human Rights ;
_v81
490 1 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aForeword; -- Acknowledgements; -- Table of Agreements, -- Charters, Committees, Conventions, Declarations, Resolutions, Recommendations, and Treaties; -- Table of Cases; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; -- Introduction; -- 1. The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the Twentieth Century: A Preliminary Orientation; -- 2. The Inter-war Era & the First Institutional Attempt at the International Regulation of the Problem of Minorities; -- 3. The End of the 'Remarkable Experiment': Approaches towards -- Minority Protection in the Aftermath of World War Two; -- 4. The Submergence and Gradual Reemergence of Minorities Issues within the United Nations Human Rights Regime 1945-1989; -- 5. The Revival in Minorities Issues within the United Nations (1989-2000): Approaches towards Substance and Definition; -- 6. The Implementation of Minority Rights within the United Nations Human Rights Regime; -- 7. Concluding Observations; -- Appendix A: Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Poland; -- Appendix B: Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities; -- Appendix C: Approaches towards the Definition of Minorities and Related Groups by UN Bodies; -- Appendix D: Draft Minority Protection Clauses; -- Select Bibliography; -- Index.
520 _aMinority protection is integral to a civilised standard of internal good governance. The goal of promoting friendly inter-group relations within states highlights the linkages between constitutionalism and the extending reach of international law in shaping domestic governance and structuring relations between the state, non-state communities and individuals. While law per se cannot guarantee the security and integrity of minority groups, law and legal institutions play a role in promoting a tolerant and pluralistic environment and a multicultural ethos that appreciates, rather than resents, ethno-cultural diversity. This book is a comprehensive, modern study of the important field of international protection of minority rights, focusing on 20th century developments. Minority rights regimes, which address the issue of group identity and autonomy, have essentially been a stabilising force, buttressing state survivability in the face of claims to self-determination or secession. These serve to promote the peaceful co-existence of distinct ethno-cultural groups, captured by the metaphor of 'Babel', within existing states. Despite overlaps, the content of minority protection is more modest than the claim of indigenous groups for collective rights or peoples' rights to self-determination. As part of the contemporary corpus of human rights norms, minority protection may be appreciated as an aspect of the evolving content of the 'internal' dimension of the right to self-determination. Chapter 1 introduces some key definitional and conceptual problems in the field of minority protection and presents a brief historical review of international approaches up to 1919. Chapter 2 discusses the League of Nations era. Chapter 3 examines approaches towards minority protection after World War Two as reflected in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and efforts to protect minorities outside the UN regime. In this period, discussed in Chapters 4 and 5, minorities' issues remained largely submerged within the UN project of promoting universal individual human rights. Chapter 6 addresses the post-1989 revival in minorities' issues within the UN; Chapter 7 offers a succinct overview of what might be considered a parallel history with respect to the development of regional human rights schemes and what these afford to minority protection, closing with concluding observations. Meticulously researched, this volume offers a valuable synthesis of this important but often heart-breaking field.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aHuman rights.
650 0 _aMinorities
_xLegal status, laws, etc.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tManaging Babel: The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the Twentieth Century.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2005
_z9789004141988
_w(DLC) 2005042013
830 0 _aInternational Studies in Human Rights ;
_v81.
830 0 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047414957
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