Food as Heritage and Multi-Level International Legal Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-490
Author(s):  
Lucas Lixinski
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Law ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

Abstract:This article focuses on the issue of framing of food in international law, as a means to highlight the specific dimensions of food that are the focus of food as heritage under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The specific example of Mexican traditional cuisine is used as a prism through which to analyze regulatory choices across a range of organizations in the United Nations System, yielding a number of frames: food as heritage, food as a human right, food as indigeneity, food as biodiversity, and food as a regulatory object. The frames are natural consequences of the mandates of the bodies addressing food, and the article argues that food as heritage needs to be more clearly engaged with other dimensions of food in international law, lest food becomes just a tourist attraction under the intangible heritage regime.

scholarly journals The periodic reporting procedure of the United Nations System and the human right to water: opportunities and challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 365-386
Author(s):  
Germana Aguiar Ribeiro do Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

A água é fundamental para a vida. Contudo, foi apenas nos anos 70 que o acesso a este bem começou a ser discutido, a nível internacional, como um direito humano. Antes disso, algumas Convenções e Tratados das Nações Unidas reconheciam, de alguma forma, o direito à água, mas tal direito tinha que ser inferido de outros direitos ou estava limitado à uma determinada categoria de pessoas. Independentemente das suas limitações, estes textos podem reforçar a aplicação do direito humano à água, especialmente através dos seus mecanismos de monitoramento: os relatórios periódicos e os casos litigiosos. Assim, o objetivo deste artigo é analisar em que medida o mecanismo de relatórios periódicos pode contribuir à efetividade do direito humano à água. Para tal, a metodologia qualitativa será utilizada. A investigação documental, o estudo da jurisprudência e a legislação internacional apoiarão a informação relacionada ao tema. Parece que, de fato, os relatórios periódicos reforçam a existência de um direito humano à água autônomo, mas, no que se refere à sua efetiva aplicação, a contribuição deste mecanismo de monitoramento depende da conformidade dos países com suas obrigações legais.

Part II Substantive Aspects, Ch.16 Language as Cultural Heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Witte Bruno De
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Law ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Functional Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Limited Role

This chapter addresses linguistic heritage as part of cultural heritage. The use of a language not only serves as a means of functional communication but also expresses the speaker’s cultural identity as well as the cultural heritage developed by all previous users of that language. One can say that legal measures that allow for the public use of a particular language, or that impose the use of that language in certain contexts, contribute to the preservation of the cultural heritage of a country. However, UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage Convention includes within its scope the oral traditions and forms of expressions that use language as their tool. In other words, language is protected because, and to the extent that, it gives expression to an element of a community’s intangible cultural heritage other than the language itself. Therefore, international law plays only a limited role in protecting language-as-heritage.

scholarly journals Vuk’s Parliament as an element of intangible cultural heritage in tourism offer of Serbia

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 507
Author(s):  
Željko Bjeljac ◽  
Aleksandra Terzić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
National Database ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
National Register ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Cultural Event ◽  
Intangible Heritage

During the process of choosing the first group of intangible cultural heritage assets as a part of national database of National committee and Center for intangible cultural heritage, in 2012 to national register as an element of intangible cultural heritage entered the cultural event „Vuk’s parliament“ (Tršić). Even though, at the first sight, the question of why one cultural event is considered to be the part of intangible heritage could be made, it can be said that Vuk’s parliament is among the oldest cultural events in Serbia, and that it has its own cultural, linguistic, folkloristic, and touristic significance. This paper places the focus on touristic significance, based on the fact that this event is visited by several dozen thousand visitors from Serbia and abroad. The main goal of this research is to determinate how this event as intangible cultural heritage of Serbia could in fact become representative tourist attraction.

scholarly journals Religious heritage in international law: Nationalism, culture, and rights

Pravovedenie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-155
Author(s):  
Lucas Lixinski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Law ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Right ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
International Human

This Article explores the work that religious heritage performs in our thinking about the uses of heritage in the construction of politics, society, and culture. Seen as heritage, religion is an important part of nation-building, divorced from fundamental canons, and seen as a social practice, which for the most part is a positive development in line with the international human right to freedom of religion. The Article explores religious heritage in international law through the Russian experience both in the 1972 World Heritage Convention and the 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention. The author argues that, for the most part, heritage values prevail over religious ones, at least inasmuch as heritage is a proxy for secularism and cosmopolitanism. At the same time, however, the human right to freedom of religion can aid religious communities to tap into the possibilities for heritage safeguarding to protect their faith. Thus, while giving religion a priveleged position may be seen as incompatible with the worldview of peace and dialogue among nations, which international law tends to privilege, heritage law processes can also aid religion and religious communities. The coupling of heritage law with human rights can create incentives for countries like Russia to engage more seriously with the possibilities of heritage mechanisms to protect certain religious practices and curb the ascent of dangerous nationalism. Russia should therefore seriously consider ratifying the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention, at least inasmuch as this treaty can benefit the treatment of religious heritage and its use in the country, and also help promote freedom of religion as a human right with both individual and collective dimensions.

Discussing Global Health and Access to Medicines in the un System: The Case of the Union of South American Nations (unasur)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 178-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann ◽  
Jana Tabak
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Access To Medicines ◽  
South American ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Multilateral Cooperation ◽  
Health Diplomacy ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

This article explores how and why regional organizations participate in the discussion about global health within the United Nations system. It focuses on the case of the Union of South American Nations (unasur) and the topic of access to medicines, and argues that the creation of this organization and its activism in global health diplomacy and governance evolved in the context of the reconfiguration of multilateral cooperation in the Americas, where health has been defined as a human right and vital for regional citizenship. This process results from changing regional identities, unasur’s mandate and capacities, and the interests of leading member states such as Brazil.

Soviet Initiatives: U.S. Responses—New Opportunities for Reviving the United Nations System

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Franck
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

This issue of our Journal highlights “new thinking” by two leading Soviet legal scholars. That, however, is only part of a larger transformation of the climate in which international law and institutions operate. Nowhere has this transformation been more remarkable than at the United Nations.

scholarly journals Supporting Israel by Withholding Support from International Organizations: UNRWA and UNESCO in Trump’s Foreign Policy.

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Julieta Espín Ocampo ◽  
Alberto Moreno Melgarejo ◽  
Estela Navarro Zapata
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Political Approach ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Specialized Organization ◽  
Nations System ◽  
Trump Administration

This paper analyses the steps undertaken by the Trump Administration against UNESCO and UNRWA,the former being a specialized organization, and the latter a specialized agency of the United Nations system, in order to pressure the Palestinian representatives to reach a final peace agreement with Israel that would go against the basic national aspirations of the Palestinian people and the international law. The article aims to highlight the consequences of this new political approach and how it directly affects the relationship between Palestinians and Israel.

Administrative convergence in the United Nations system? Patterns of administrative reform in four United Nations organizations over time

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232110187
Author(s):  
Stephan Grohs ◽  
Daniel Rasch
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
New Public ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System ◽  
Over Time

This article asks how and why United Nations organizations reform their administrative structure and processes over time. It explores whether we can observe a convergence towards a coherent administrative model in the United Nations system. Like in most nation states, reform discussions according to models like New Public Management or post-New Public Management have permeated international public administrations. Against this background, the question of administrative convergence discussed for national administrative systems also arises for United Nations international public administrations. On the one hand, similar challenges, common reform ‘fashions’ and an increasing exchange within the United Nations system make convergence likely. Yet, on the other hand, distinct tasks, administrative styles and path dependencies might support divergent reform trajectories. This question of convergence is addressed by measuring the frequency, direction and rationales for reforms, using a sample of four international public administrations from the United Nations’ specialized agencies (the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labour Organization, International Monetary Fund and World Bank). We find that convergence depends on the area of reform (human resources or organizational matters are more harmonized than others) and time (some international public administrations are faster or earlier than others). Points for practitioners This article identifies different drivers of reforms, as well as several supporting conditions, and obstacles to reform in international public administration, which is useful for understanding and planning change management. It highlights the issues policymakers should consider when implementing reform measures, especially institutional context, administrative styles and relevant actor constellations. Among other things, it shows that: the establishment of coordination bodies clearly leads to more homogeneous administrative practices; executive heads have a decisive role in the shaping of administrative reforms and have a specific interest to foster coordination and control in public organizations; and autonomy enables organizations to pursue reform policies apt to their individual challenges.

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