Essays about: "linguistic human rights"
Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the words linguistic human rights.
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6. Protection of Individual Minority Rights in the UN Global Sustainable Development Goals
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Minorities falling under the Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil, Cultural and Political rights, that is, individuals belonging to national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities possess characteristics that form part of their identity and differ from the characteristics possessed by the majority population of the state. Because of these particularities, minorities can be often considered to be directly or indirectly discriminated against and to stand in unequal position in relation to majority groups in what comes to a distribution of benefits in the society. READ MORE
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7. The Working Group on Minorities: In Memoriam
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : As the overall United Nations (UN) machinery embarks on its continuous road of reformation, more particularly as it relates to reforming its Human Rights System, this Thesis sets out to critically examine the effect of this process on one aspect of the latter System: international minority rights. And even more specifically in this regard, the primary focus is on the now-abolished (or as some say ''replaced'') Working Group on Minorities (WGM). READ MORE
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8. Access to Justice-with the focus on indigenous law
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore whether access to justice in Guatemala can be provided for the Mayan population by the use of their own justice system and what the consequences of its application would be. Prohibiting factors are economical, geographical, linguistic, cultural and institutional in nature. READ MORE
