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The debates concerning the human rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities have increasingly focused on cultural rights. UNESCO has made major contributions on these issues, related to cultural heritage, cultural diversity, intercultural education, indigenous knowledge, among other concerns. This chapter appeared in a publication by UNESCO in 1998.
This text was first published as a chapter in: Halina Nieç (Ed.), 1998: Cultural Rights and Wrongs (Paris: UNESCO): 1–20. It is the revised version of an earlier paper: "Cultural Rights and Universal Human Rights", in Eide, Asbjørn et al. (Eds.), 1995: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers): 63–77. The permission to reprint this text was granted in July 2012 by UNESCO.
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Here Solzhenitzyn, Kurdish writers in Turkey, Salman Rushdie come to mind.
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Stavenhagen, R. (2013). Cultural Rights: A Social Science Perspective (1998). In: Peasants, Culture and Indigenous Peoples. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34153-3_3
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