Annual Symposium 2006: “The 1981 U.N. Declaration on Religious Tolerance and Nondiscrimination: Implementing its Principles after Twenty-Five Years”

BYU Law Review Volume 2007, No. 3

This volume, taken from papers presented at the Thirteenth Annual International Law And Religion Symposium, focuses on the 1981 U.N. Declaration on Religious Tolerance and Nondiscrimination and its implementation in various countries. The issue includes the conference’s keynote address by Robert A. Seiple, the first U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom, as well as papers on the legal sufficiency of the 1981 Declaration, the globalization of human rights and the socialization of human rights norms, as well as specific papers addressing issues of religion and the state in Japan, Peru, Spain, Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey.

Articles

• The “Direct” Financing of Religious Minorities in Spain, Jose Maria Contreras Mazario
• Time for a Treaty? The Legal Sufficiency of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination, Carolyn Evans
• Problematic Issues Concerning the Freedom of Association and Group/Collective Rights in the Republic of Armenia, Shavarsh Khachatryan
• The Globalization of Human Rights and the Socialization of Human Rights Norms, Christopher Marsh and Daniel P. Payne
• Mexican Legislation on Religion and the 1981 Declaration on Intolerance and Discrimination, Raul Gonzalez Schmal
• Keynote Address: After Twenty-five Years, Robert A. Seiple
• Religious Accommodation in Japan, Eiichiro Takahata
• Legal Aspects of Church-State Relations in Post-Revolutionary Georgia, Khatuna Tsintsadze
• Tolerance and Religious Freedom: The Struggle in Peru To Tolerate Multiple Cultures in Light of Principles of Religious Freedom, Carlos Valderrama Adriansen
• Minority Rights in Turkey, Ilhan Yildiz