ECMI Library
The ECMI Library is an independent collection of books, journals, and grey literature of more than 3,000 items covering many aspects of minority issues. The highly specialized collection offers public access to a variety of materials in more than twenty languages on interethnic relations, language and cultural diversity issues and ethnic conflict in Europe.
The Library includes a useful reference section and a considerable number of published and unpublished reports, and is especially strong in the area of minority protection with regards to international law. The ECMI Library is also unique in that it includes an ever-growing number of annual reports of Ombudsman offices around the world, which provide insight into the human rights situation in many countries. Current periodical and newspaper subscriptions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ECMI research, and reference services are provided both in-house and for the general public.
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| Author |
Henrard, Kristin |
|---|---|
| Title | Devising an Adequate System of Minority Protection. Individual Human Rights, Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination. |
| Parallel title / Title of generic unit | |
| Subject | 1. Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc. 2. Human rights. 3. Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe. 4. Human rights--Europe. 5. Minorities. 6. International law. |
| Publisher | The Hague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 363 |
| Description | As several recent developments have underscored, there is an urgent need for an improved theoretical framework about how to accommodate in the most appropriate way the population diversity within plural states. The right to identity of minorities and the right to real, substantive equality are both used to assess the existing standards and jurisprudence and also to argue for additional rights of (members of) minorities and/or a more beneficial interpretation of existing rights. A definitional chapter is followed by chapters which analyze and evaluate the relative contribution to minority protection of respectively, individual human rights, minority rights and the right to self-determination. It is argued that the acquis of the first category of rights, namely individual human rights, is taken up, furthered and brought closer to the goal of minority protection by the next category, namely minority rights, as the latter deals more explicitly with essential concerns of minorities and thus with their right to identity. Finally, the right to self-determination, mainly in its internal dimension, is then turned to as it seems to take up the acquis of both individual human rights and minority rights, while enhancing the protection and promotion of the right to identity of minorities. It seems justified to conclude that individual human rights, minority rights and a right to (internal) self-determination would all three be needed and would interrelate for the elaboration of an adequate system of minority protection. |
| Type | Book |
| Note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | English |
| Series | International Studies in Human Righta, Volume 62 |
| Identifier | 9041113592 |
| Call No. |
342'.0873 |
| Location |
Library |
How to find the ECMI Library?
The ECMI Library is accessible to staff, students and the general public at the:
Danish Central Library (next to The Schleswig Collection)
Norderstraße 59
Flensburg.
Materials from the ECMI Library may not be loaned out, but can be consulted in the Danish library on the following days:
Monday - Friday: 10 am - 7 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm
For any other inquiries, please contact the ECMI Librarian at library@
ecmi.de.
