The Noble Banner of Human Rights

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37695-3
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Tom Lantos was a Hungarian-born U.S. Congressman remembered for raising awareness and respect for human rights around the world. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1980 becoming the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the Congress. In 1983 he co-founded and chaired the Congressional Human Rights Caucus renamed in his honour as the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. With articles authored by leading academics this Festschrift remembers Tom Lantos’s extensive human rights activism on the human rights themes he was passionately involved with around the world. The essays offer new insights on a range of topical human rights issues, such as human rights education, religious freedom, post-conflict justice, minority rights and identity politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bíró, Anna-Mária

Lantos Swett, Katrina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fischer, Mate

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tribute

Joe Biden

Preface

Katrina Lantos Swett

Foreword

Anna-Mária Bíró

Notes on Contributors

1 The Human Rights Legacy of Congressman Tom Lantos

Robert R. King

Photo Section

2 Religious Freedom in Iran and the Middle East: The Case of the Bahá'ís in Selected Countries

Geoffrey Cameron and Nazila Ghanea

3 Friends in High Places? The Externalisation of Hungarian Minority Rights Claims

Myra A. Waterbury

4 Dealing with the Past in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Truth, Memory and Identity after Atrocity

Edin Hodžic

5 Human Rights Education and Training: Global Standards and Efforts Underway in China

Gudmundur Alfredsson and Zhang Wei

6 Minority Rights in Myanmar: Negotiating Identity Politics and Human Rights

Andrew Fagan

7 Sudan: A Country of Many Identities Subdued to One

Rania El Rajji

8 Contemporary Forms of the Oldest Hatred: Modern Antisemitism in the Visegrád Countries

Ildikó Barna, Anikó Félix, Grigorij Mesežnikov, Rafal Pankowski and Veronika Šternová

Über Autor(innen)

Katrina Lantos Swett, PhD, is President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice and serves as the Co-Chair of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Dr. Lantos Swett previously served as Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and she is an adjunct professor at Tufts University.

Anna-Mária Bíró, PhD, is the Director of the Tom Lantos Institute. She directed the Europe Office of Minority Rights Group International (MRG) and worked as an Advisor on Minority Affairs at the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. She advocated and published extensively in the field of international minority protection.