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Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations (Hardcover)
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Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Society
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This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory
approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of
religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies,
the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion
in international law with a detailed textual study of the reporting
practice of the committees monitoring racial discrimination, civil
and political rights, women's rights, and children's rights.
Arsheim argues that the role of religion within the rights
traditions monitored by the committees varies to the extent that
their recommendations risk contradicting one another, thereby
undermining their credibility and potential to bring about real
change on the ground: Where some committees view religion
singularly as a core individual right, others see religion partly
as an inherent threat to the realization of other rights, but also
as a potent social force to be reckoned with. In order to remedy
this situation, Arsheim proposes the publication of a joint general
comment by all the committees, spelling out their approach to the
role of religion in the implementation of human rights.
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