Human Rights in Education, Science and Culture: Legal Developments and Challenges - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0754673138 ISBN 13: 9780754673132

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007

Synopsis

This volume focuses on economic, social and cultural rights within the competence of UNESCO. These include the right to education, right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications and the right to take part in cultural life. The work provides a combination of insight on the content, scope of application and corresponding State obligations of these rights, based on the international human rights legal framework, and examinations of specific aspects relating to their implementation.This book illuminates an area of rights study that has hitherto been neglected. It will be a valuable resource for all those interested in human rights generally.

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About the Author

Dr Yvonne Donders is Deputy Director of the Amsterdam Centre for International Law at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She was previously Programme Specialist in the Division of Human Rights and Struggle Against Discrimination of UNESCO's Secretariat. She is a former vice-chair of the Dutch United Nations Association. Vladimir Volodin is Chief of Human Rights and Gender Equality Section at UNESCO. As a diplomat and international civil servant he was heavily involved with human rights sessions, including the UN General Assembly, ECOSOC, the commission on Human Rights and its Sub-Commission as well as working and drafting groups, and treaty monitoring bodies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754673138
• ISBN 13: 9780754673132
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Donders Yvonne, Volodin Vladimir