Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights Report on Fundamentalism & Extremism & Grave Impact on Cultural Rights – Call for a Human Rights-Based Response
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: February 20, 2017
UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights – Website:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/SRCulturalRightsIndex.aspx
French – http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/SRCulturalRightsIndex.aspx
Spanish – http://www.ohchr.org/SP/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/SRCulturalRightsIndex.aspx
Direct Link to Full 23-PAGE 2017 Report:
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/CulturalRights/A_HRC_34_56_EN.docx
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February-24 March 2017
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, pursuant to Council resolution 19/6. In the report, the Special Rapporteur addresses the phenomena of fundamentalism and extremism and their grave impact on the enjoyment of cultural rights. She stresses that these are human rights issues requiring a human rights-based response, which she outlines. In the report, she argues that cultural rights can play a key role in combating fundamentalism and extremism.
Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Contents
Page
- Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………… 3
- Defining and understanding fundamentalism and extremism……………………….. 3
- A human rights approach to fundamentalism and extremism……………………….. 6
- International legal framework………………………………………………………………………. 10
- Relevant international standards…………………………………………………………….. 10
- Analysis of fundamentalism and extremism in the United Nations system……….. 12
III. Fundamentalism, extremism and cultural rights…………………………………… 14
- Freedom of artistic expression and attacks against artists…………………………….. 14
- Attacks against intellectuals and cultural rights defenders……………………………. 15
- The right to take part in cultural life without discrimination………………………….. 16
- Attacks against educational institutions, personnel and students…………………… 19
- Conclusions and recommendations……………………………………………………………….. 20
- Conclusions………………………………………………………………………………………… 20
- Recommendations………………………………………………………………………………. 20
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