Cultural Human Rights

The human rights movement, being born and bred in the Protestant West, perceives only individuals, but elsewhere in the world, the preservation of culture is important and is gradually seeping into the international legal regime. Contributors working in international or human rights, or with specific groups around the world explore such aspects as self-determination and cultural rights, indigenous peoples' cultural rights and the controversy over commercial use of their traditional knowledge, and the role of the state in balancing religious freedom with other human rights in a multicultural European context. Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)