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    Managing Babel : the international legal protection of minorities in the twentieth century / Li-ann Thio.

    • Title:Managing Babel : the international legal protection of minorities in the twentieth century / Li-ann Thio.
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    • Author/Creator:Thio, Li-ann.
    • Published/Created:Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, ©2005.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.
      Human rights.
    • Description:xxxiii, 360 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
    • Series:International studies in human rights ; v. 81.
    • Notes:Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cambridge.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-342) and index.
    • ISBN:9004141987 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:Table of agreements, charters, committees, conventions, declarations, resolutions, recommendations, and treaties
      1. international legal protection of minorities in the twentieth century : a preliminary orientation
      2. inter-war era & the first institutional attempt at the international regulation of the problem of minorities
      3. end of the 'remarkable experiment' : approaches towards minority protection in the aftermath of World War Two
      4. submergence and gradual reemergence of minorities issues within the United Nations human rights regime 1945-1989
      5. revival in minorities issues within the United Nations (1989-2000) : approaches towards substance and definition
      6. implementation of minority rights within the United Nations human rights regime
      7. Concluding observations
      App. A. Treaty between the principal allied and associated powers and Poland
      App. B. Declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities
      App. C. Approaches towards the definition of minorities and related groups by UN bodies
      App. D. Draft minority protection clauses.
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