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Human Rights Culture: Solidarity, Diversity and the Right to be Different.
- Source :
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Citizenship Studies . Sep2005, Vol. 9 Issue 4, p335-348. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- The concept of a human rights culture has been crucial to the incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights into UK law. In this paper media and activist representations of human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights are considered as indicative of an emerging human rights culture, especially around the Civil Partnerships Act 2004. A typology of representations of rights is developed and discussed. It is concluded that insofar as there is an emerging human rights culture, it is one that is concerned above all with creating and maintaining civic relationships rather than with the assertion of individual liberty, and as inviting political compromise rather than a principled stance on universal human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HUMAN rights
*RIGHTS
*CIVIL rights
*LAW
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13621025
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Citizenship Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17941585
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13621020500211305