Liberal Theory and Minority Group Rights

Oestreich, Joel E.

doi:10.1353/hrq.1999.0011

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“…108 This is because culture provides individuals with meaningful options and, accordingly, influences how they choose to live their lives. 109 The close relationship between the protection of culture and dignity has also been recognised by the CESCR: 'the protection of cultural diversity is an ethical imperative, inseparable from respect for human dignity'. 110 However, assimilation policies limit minority-refugees' choices to those options offered by the host State's culture/s.…”

Section: Human Dignity and The Recognition Of Minority-refugees' Right To Preserve Their Cultural Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The right of minority-refugees to preserve their cultural identity: An intersectional analysis

Berry

Taban

2021

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

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While UN treaty bodies have sought to address forms of oppression resulting from the intersection of gender, race and/or disability through their practice, they rarely recognise the experience of groups at the intersection of other social categories. This article uses the lens of intersectionality to analyse the practice of UN treaty bodies in relation to the intersection of minority and refugee status. We argue that while minority-refugees have fled persecution connected to their minority status, UN treaty bodies have failed to appreciate the impact of their location at the intersection of persons belonging to minorities and refugees in host States on their right to preserve their cultural identity. By failing to address the distinct experience of minority-refugees, UN treaty bodies risk participating in their oppression. Further, we reveal that current practice not only has potentially negative consequences for minority-refugees – as both individuals and groups – and for the host society but may even undermine the ability of IHRL to achieve its overarching objectives.

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Section: Human Dignity and The Recognition Of Minority-refugees' Right To Preserve Their Cultural Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The right of minority-refugees to preserve their cultural identity: An intersectional analysis

Berry

Taban

2021

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

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“…In 1250, St. Louis guarantees himself as a defender of Maronite Christians in the Holy Land, a pledge occasionally improved by French Monarchs. 88 In addition, in 1815 in the Congress of Vienna the terms of the treaty got the structure of ethnic protection, for example, the Polish agreement acknowledged the rights of Poles to keep their own culture and institution. 89 Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is one of the most important references for minority rights.…”

Section: Minority Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious Freedom for Minority Muslim Group Based on Gender in Indonesia

Widiastuti

2017

J STUDGENIS

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Artikel ini membahas tentang kebebasan beragama bagi kelompok minoritas Muslim berdasarkan gender di Indonesia. Kelompok minoritas sering mengalami permasalahan untuk dapat mengakses hak-haknya sebagai warga negara. Transgender merupakan salah satu kelompok minoritas berdasarkan gender yang sering mengalami permasalahan tersebut. Hak beragama merupakan salah satu hak sipil yang dimiliki oleh setiap warga negara. Namun, keberadaan transgender belum sepenuhnya diterima oleh seluruh lapisan masyarakat di Indonesia, khususnya masyarakat Muslim, maka mereka terhambat untuk dapat mengekspresikan keyakinan agama mereka. Faktanya, transgender itu ada dalam kehidupan sosial. Fenomena tersebut juga sudah ada ketika zaman pra-Islam ataupun zaman Nabi Muhammad SAW. Ayat-ayat Al Qur’an yang dijadikan inspirasi untuk mendefinisikan transgender adalah QS. Al Hajj: 5 dan QS. An-Nur: 31. Sedangkan dalam hadith juga ada penjelasan tentang transgender, pada kisah transgender dan istri-istri Nabi. Sehingga Fiqh, sebagai landasan hukum dalam Islam juga memberikan penjelasan tentang peribadatan yang terkait dengan transgender. Term yang disebutkan dalam Fiqh untuk istilah transgender adalah khuntha dan mukhannath. Akan tetapi dalam sebagian besar penjelasan mengenai transgender dari para Ulama Muslim, sering melupakan kondisi psikis yang dialami oleh transgender. Seseorang tidak bisa dengan mudah memahami kondisi yang dialami oleh transgender. Untuk memahami transgender, seseorang tidak cukup hanya melihat dari aspek fisik saja, tetapi perlu menelaah aspek psikologis dan biologis dari transgender tersebut.[This article explains the religious freedom for Muslim minority group based on the gender in Indonesia. The minority groups usually face some obstacle to access their rights as a citizen. Transgender as one of a minority group based on the gender and they usually face that problem. The religious rights include to the civil rights and all of the citizen should have it. However, the existence of transgender in the social community cannot be accepted yet by the Indonesia society, especially Muslim society. So, it causes the difficulties for them to express their belief. In fact, transgender exists in social life. This phenomenon has been existing since the pre-Islamic era or the era of the Prophet Muhammad. There several verses of Qur’an explain about transgender, such as QS. Al-Hajj: 5 and QS. An-Nur: 31. Moreover, the explanation about transgender also exists in hadith, in the story of transgender and Prophet’s wives. Therefore, Fiqh as a fundamental of Islamic law also explains how transgender does their pray. In Fiqh of Islam, transgender is called as khuntha and mukhannath. But in most of the explanations about transgender from Muslim scholars, they often forget about the psychological conditions of transgender. People cannot easily understand the condition of transgender. Therefore, to understand their condition, it is not enough by seeing them only from the physical aspect, but we need to understand their psychological and biological conditions.]

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“…These arguments also highlight the obvious point that certain goods, such as language, culture, and sovereignty, cannot be experienced alone; they are, by definition, communally shared goods. A failure to account for these communal goods, however, has led to a view of rights within liberal democracy that is inherently individualistic and cannot appreciate the pursuit of such goods other than derivatively (Van Dyke 1977;Taylor 1994;Coulombe 1995;Oestreich 1999).…”

Section: Language Rights and Political Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Language Rights: The “Cinderella” Human Right

May

2011

Journal of Human Rights

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In the last 60 years, we have seen the growing development and articulation of human rights, particularly within international law and within and across supranational organizations. However, in that period, the right to maintain one's language(s), without discrimination, remains peculiarly underrepresented and/or problematized as a key human right. This is primarily because the recognition of language rights presupposes recognizing the importance of wider group memberships and social contexts; conceptions that ostensibly militate against the primacy of individual rights in the post-Second World War era. Drawing on theoretical debates in political theory and international law, as well as the substantive empirical example of Catalonia, this article argues that language rights can and should be recognized as an important human right.

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Liberal Theory and Minority Group Rights

Cited by 19 publications

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The right of minority-refugees to preserve their cultural identity: An intersectional analysis

The right of minority-refugees to preserve their cultural identity: An intersectional analysis

Religious Freedom for Minority Muslim Group Based on Gender in Indonesia

Language Rights: The “Cinderella” Human Right

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