Compliance and Non-compliance with International Human Rights Standards: Overplaying the Cultural |
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Authors: | Caroline Walsh |
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Institution: | (1) Equality Studies Centre, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland |
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Abstract: | This paper interrogates a ‘positive’ view of culture’s (potential) role in widening compliance with international human rights
standards, which (1) concentrates on the ‘cultural’ bases of conflict over rights and, in consequence, (2) focuses primarily
on cultural interpretation as a means of achieving greater respect for rights norms. The thrust of the paper is that the relationship
between culture and human rights norms is much more complex than this positive perspective implies and, this being so, that
some of its claims about the potential benefits of cultural interpretation for widening rights compliance are hard to sustain.
I substantiate this argument by exploring five challenges to this approach. |
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