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Section Two Introduction: Claims, Claimants and Conflicts 04/22/05
This section of Human Rights Dialogue: Cultural Rights (Spring 2005) focuses on the political contexts within which cultural rights claims are asserted, and how these contexts affect the articulation of cultural rights with regard to other human rights.

Women's Rights As Cultural Rights: The Case Of The Irish Travellers 04/22/05
Traveller women in Ireland are at the forefront of efforts to promote the cultural rights of their people.
Author(s): Niamh Reilly

A Chinese Lesson On Cultural Rights 04/22/05
Xiaorong Li argues that while the Chinese Government may claim to protect the cultural rights of its people, its record suggests otherwise, and represents a failure to recognize the indivisibility of human rights.
Author(s): Xiaorong Li

Cultural Rights In The Age Of The 'War On Terror' 04/22/05
Kristen Ghodsee and Christian Filipov demonstrate the effects of tensions introduced into national Bulgarian politics by the requirements of participation in the European Union and of cooperation with the U.S. war on terror upon the cultural rights of Slavic Muslim Pomaks.
Author(s): Kristen Ghodsee, Christian Filipov

When Rites Are Rights: Cultural Challenges To Marriage Laws 04/22/05
Alison Dundes Renteln explores the role of culture in the legal recognition of marriage in the United States and elsewhere, demonstrating how legal definitions of marriage often make it difficult to recognize marital bonds for minority cultures.
Author(s): Alison Dundes Renteln

About Human Rights Dialogue

Human Rights Dialogue promotes a global discussion of human rights ideas and practices by presenting firsthand accounts of human rights issues as they arise within specific real-life contexts. In so doing, it helps to clarify the significant and ongoing evolution that is taking place within the human rights movement to make the human rights framework more relevant and effective in addressing the social, economic, and political challenges of the twenty-first century.

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Series One (1993–1998)examines all sides of the Asian values debate—the argument that Asian cultural values imply different human rights standards and priorities from those in the West.

Series Two(2000–2005)addresses the problem of the “human rights box”—the constraints that have enabled the human rights framework to gain currency among elites while limiting its advance among the most vulnerable. Specifically, the essays aim to locate the barriers to greater public legitimacy of human rights and to demonstrate how those barriers can be overcome.