Tangible Cultural Heritage and International Human Rights Law
in Prott, Redmond-Cooper & Urice (eds), Realising Cultural Heritage Law: Festschrift for Patrick O’Keefe (Builth Wells: Institute of Art and Law, 2013) 87–95
13 Pages Posted: 1 Jan 2020 Last revised: 14 Dec 2019
Date Written: 2013
Abstract
The preservation and protection of tangible cultural heritage is an obligation incumbent on states by virtue of a range of international human rights guarantees. After a prefatory outline of the basic parameters of international human rights law, the article outlines the sources and content of this obligation before considering, in the light of this content and of these basic parameters, whether a human rights-based approach is a useful addition to the international legal framework for the preservation and protection of tangible cultural heritage.
JEL Classification: K33
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