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Minorities

A Question of Human Rights?

  • 1st Edition - May 31, 1984
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: B. Whitaker
  • Language: English

We all belong to minorities - through our race perhaps, or our religion, or our views. But the world can look very bleak to those groups who are the victims of intolerant… Read more

Description

We all belong to minorities - through our race perhaps, or our religion, or our views. But the world can look very bleak to those groups who are the victims of intolerant majorities. The Minority Rights Group (MRG) is an international human rights charity working to investigate and publicise the position of disadvantaged groups. This book is a compilation of the 11 annual lectures of the group, brought together with a special introduction in one volume for the first time in order to make them available to a wider audience.

Readership

For university libraries, development studies personnel, and the general public.

Table of contents

Introduction: The Minority Rights Group: what's in a name?, R Oliver. What rights should minorities have?, Conor Cruise O'Brien. The integration of minorities, Professor Sir Edmund Leach. The roots of prejudice, M Jahoda. Oppression as a cause of international violence, S MacBride SC. The value of minorities, Rt Hon. Lord Grimond PC. Minority rights in a plural society, Rt Hon. Lord Scarman PC OBE. Intervention to protect minorities, J Fawcett DSC. Minority rights and minority rule, R Dahrendorf. Prejudice and unemployment, Rt Hon. Shirley Williams MP. Human rights today: must the few be more than the many? Sir Shridath Ramphal CMG QC. Human rights and mass exodus: developing an international conscience, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 31, 1984
  • Language: English

About the editor

BW

B. Whitaker

Affiliations and expertise
The Minority Rights Group, London, UK

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