This article introduces the special issue of International Journal Human Rights on cultural and linguistic rights minorities indigenous peoples. The right to life is at core all human identities but peoples have particular protect their collective identities, which are more easily eroded by dominant culture(s) or due harmful practices such as involuntary assimilation. conference brought togethe...

A growing attention to cultural participation of people with disabilities has been propelled by the entry into force UN Convention on Rights Persons Disabilities (CRPD). Being strictly connected implementation CRPD, focus accrued outside remit national policy. This article carries out a thematic analysis disability strategies across 27 Member States European Union plus UK and explores extent wh...

samanidgovernment was established in the fourthcentury (ah) in the east of islamic caliphate, within a rich socio-cultural context. samanid dynasty needed to prove its rights and legitimacy because of its conflict with the political discourse of their rival governments. this had to be done by taking advantage of thevalues and conceptsembedded in the rational, cultural, and conceptual contextsan...