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APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 1: Rethinking Cultural Genocide Under International Law

Cultural genocide is a unique wrong that should be recognized independently and that rises to the level of meriting individual criminal responsibility. If the highest ...

An indigenous forest, like the Mukogodo, in the Aberdare mountains of Kenya.

APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 1: "This Forest Is Ours"

The cultural survival of the Yiaaku people in the Mukogodo forest of Kenya depends upon preserving their intimate relationship with the forest. The Yiaaku want ...

With limited resources, Guarani students paper a village school's adobe walls with writing in Guarani and Spanish.

APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 1: Language Rights And Guarani Renaissance In Bolivia

Guarani claim the right to native language schooling not just to reproduce their distinct identity, but also to engage in a pluralistic society as equals.

APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 1: The Stolen Generation: Aboriginal Children In Australia

The Australian government's policy to eradicate Aboriginal culture constitutes a clear-cut violation of the group's cultural rights.

Access to a Traveller community is blocked as a result of the "Anti-Trespass" legislation passed by the Irish government in 2002. Photo courtesy of the Traveller Visibility Group.

APR 22, 2005 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 2: Women's Rights As Cultural Rights: The Case Of The Irish Travellers

Traveller women in Ireland are at the forefront of efforts to promote the cultural rights of their people.