Minorities Minority Rights And Development

Provides an overview of the complex relationship between minorities, minority rights and development. Includes a discussion of the policies of development aid bodies.

Compiles extracts of relevant articles from human rights instruments. Presents definitions, including that of the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169). Summarizes experiences made in the SUBIR (Sustainable Uses for Biological Resources) project in Ecuador. Appends evaluation guidelines for projects impacting on minorities and indigenous peoples.

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"As advancing technology, environmental degradation and competitive globalization impress upon humanity the need for sustainable human-centered development, the way in which majority/minority relations are institutionalized within multinational states may be key to their societal development as a whole." "In this lucid and compelling overview, international legal scholar Y. N. Kly examines the urgent international dialogue now taking place on how best to institutionalize the co-existence of dominant and nondominant ethnic groups within the same multinational state."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Provides an overview of Economic, Social and Cultural (ESC) rights and how these can be applied to minorities and indigenous peoples. This guide offers practical information and advice about the best ways to advocate for securing ESC rights. It covers the rights to food and to water, housing rights, health rights, education rights, and more.

This important volume brings together a range of material in different areas of law and the social sciences that address questions concerning the rights of minorities. The discipline is arguably one of the oldest branches of public international law, and owes its heritage to those who struggled to create standards to protect the numerically inferior and non-dominant communities from the excesses of the majority. While reflecting this rich heritage, the works contained in this volume show the extent to which policy constructs (especially in law) have begun to pay heed to the need to include minorities in different domestic settings across the globe. To provide readers with a structured approach to understanding global minority rights law the editor divides the issues into six main headings, namely: Historical Development; Conceptual Development; Contemporary Challenges; Fundamental Norms of Minority Protection; Specific Rights of Minorities; Human Rights and Minority Rights.