Culture and Human Rights: The Wroclaw Commentaries

The WROCLAW COMMENTARIES address legal questions as well as political consequences related to freedom of, and access to, the arts and (old/new) media; questions of religious and language rights; the protection of minorities and other vulnerable groups; safeguarding cultural diversity and heritage; and further pertinent issues.

Specialists from all over Europe and the world summarise and comment on core messages of legal instruments, the essence of case-law as well as prevailing and important dissenting opinions in the literature, with the aim of providing a user-friendly tool for the daily needs of decision or law-makers at different juridical, administrative and political levels as well as others working in the field of culture and human rights.

Autorentext

A. Wiesand, ARCult Media

K. Chainoglou, Univ. of Macedonia

A. Sledzinska-Simon, Univ. of Wroclaw

Y. Donders, Univ. of Amsterdam

Klappentext

Developed in the context of Wroclaw - European Capital of Culture 2016, this basic guide to cultural issues in the domain of human rights addresses in 7 introductory articles and over 100 keyword-entries legal questions and political consequences related to freedom of, and access to, the arts, (old/new) media and heritage; religious and language rights; the protection of minorities; safeguarding cultural diversity; and other relevant topics.