Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and index.

1. Human rights between religions, cultures, and universality / Olivier Roy and Pasquale Annicchino -- 2. Liberty, equality, diversity: states, culture, and international law / Ana Filipa Vrdoljak -- 3. Protecting minority groups through Human Rights Courts: the interpretive role of European and Inter-American jurisprudence / Gaetano Pentassuglia -- 4. Culture and the rights of indigenous peoples / Siegfried Wiessner -- 5. The European Union and cultural rights / Evangelia Psychogiopoulou -- 6. Culture, human rights, and the WTO / Tania Voon -- 7. Cultural pluralism in international human rights law: the role of reservations / Yvonne Donders -- 8. Suppressing and remedying offences against culture / Federico Lenzerini.

"The intersections between culture and human rights are shown to have engaged some of the most heated and controversial debates across international law and theory. As understandings of culture have evolved in recent decades to encompass culture as ways of life, there has been a shift in emphasis from national cultures to cultural diversity within and across states. This has entailed a push to more fully articulate cultural rights within human rights law.This volume provides a taster of the responses by international law, and particularly human rights law, to some of the thorniest, perennial, and ... sometimes violent confrontations and contestations fuelled by culture in relations between individuals, groups, and the state in international society."--Front jacket flap.