Transnational Social Mobilisation and Minority Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transnational Social Mobilisation and Minority Rights write by Corinne Lennox. This book was released on 2019-12-05. Transnational Social Mobilisation and Minority Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the ways in which minority groups across the world are reshaping the international minority rights protection system. It documents the actions of four major groups that are using transnational social mobilisation to achieve recognition of their identities and their rights. The result is a greater pluralism in global identity politics and a wide range of new group-specific standards that can inform policies on multiculturalism, political participation, and socio-economic inclusion in the national and international spheres. The book begins by summarising the learning from the global movements of indigenous peoples and Roma. The book then focuses in greater depth on the cases of Afro-descendants in Latin America and of Dalits and caste-affected groups in South Asia and beyond. Each case study shows the historical roots of group-specific transnational mobilisation and how activists have constructed a distinct identity frame out of shared experiences. The book explores key parallels and differences between the discourse, framing strategies, organisational structures and political opportunities used in each case to show which factors have influenced the success or failures of their norm entrepreneurship. The role that international institutions have played in supporting these efforts is given special attention, including intergovernmental bodies such as the UN, the EU and the OAS, and international non-governmental organisations. The UN World Conference Against Racism is explored as a particularly significant political opportunity across the cases. Among academic audiences, this book will appeal to those researching minority rights, social movements, global governance, discrimination and multiculturalism from legal, political, sociological and critical theory perspectives. It will also interest practitioners and activists working on minority rights and the challenges of norm compliance, socio-economic inclusion and governance.
Minority Rights: The Key to Conflict Prevention
Minority Rights: The Key to Conflict Prevention - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minority Rights: The Key to Conflict Prevention write by Clive Baldwin. This book was released on 2007-05-12. Minority Rights: The Key to Conflict Prevention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This report, Minority Rights: The Key to Conflict Prevention, cogently argues that an understanding of minority rights is essential for anyone dealing with conflict prevention and resolution. The report’s authors, Clive Baldwin, Chris Chapman and Zoë Gray, demonstrate the strong links between minority rights violations and the outbreak of major conflicts, drawing on research carried out in China, India, Iraq, Kosovo, Nicaragua, the Philippines and Sudan, among other states. MRG’s report shows how minority rights violations are often warning signs of an approaching conflict. This new report looks at five themes: minority identity, the ability of minorities to participate in political and economic life, land/property rights and justice issues. Using case studies and providing practical advice, the authors show why ignoring early warning signs in any of these areas could lead to a build up of tensions and ultimately, violent conflict. The international community’s record on minority rights and conflict prevention is examined and found wanting. The report concludes with a checklist and a series of recommendations aimed at international bodies working on conflict prevention and resolution.
Rights and Courts in Pursuit of Social Change
Rights and Courts in Pursuit of Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rights and Courts in Pursuit of Social Change write by Dia Anagnostou. This book was released on 2014-03-28. Rights and Courts in Pursuit of Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past few decades, European countries have witnessed a proliferation of legal norms concerning marginalised individuals and minorities who increasingly invoke them in front of courts to assert their rights and claim protection. The present volume explores the relationship between law, rights and social mobilisation in Europe. It specifically enquires into the extent and ways in which legal processes and entitlements are mobilised by less privileged social actors to advance their rights claims and pursue social change. Most distinctly, it explores such processes in the context of the multi-level European system, characterised by the existence of multiple legal and judicial arenas at the national, subnational and supranational/transnational level. In such a complex system of law and governance in Europe, concepts like legal opportunity structures, as well as the factors shaping them need to be reconceptualised. How does the multi-level European context distinctly shape the nature and salience of rights, as well as their mobilisation by individuals and minority actors?
Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights, and Globalization
Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights, and Globalization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights, and Globalization write by Steven C. Roach. This book was released on 2005. Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights, and Globalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This insightful and timely book analyzes the role of cultural autonomy in advancing minority rights protection on the national and global level. It assesses the historical and legal limits of the right to self-determination and autonomy, and examines the relationship between cultural autonomy and globalization.
Minority Rights
Minority Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minority Rights write by Clive Baldwin. This book was released on 2007. Minority Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new report looks at five themes: minority identity, the ability of minorities to participate in political and economic life, land/property rights and justice issues. Using case studies and providing practical advice, the authors show why ignoring early warning signs in any of these areas could lead to a build up of tensions and ultimately, violent conflict.
