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The Socialization Of Human Rights As An Inroad To Protect Sacred Space, Leonard Hammer
The Socialization Of Human Rights As An Inroad To Protect Sacred Space, Leonard Hammer
Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
Serious problems exist for cultural heritage protection, and these problems are even more serious when accounting for the protection of sacred space and holy places. The lack of effectiveness of the majority of existing international norms and institutions will be reviewed in this paper, which shall then turn to potential sources for entrenching protection of scared space within states.
The paper shall rely on the human right to freedom of religion or belief as the basis for upholding sacred space given an emerging broader understanding of the right within the human rights framework.
The paper shall principally focus on the …