Social Institutions and International Human Rights Law Implementation: Every Organ of Society

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Notes

1 See e.g. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, ‘Introduction’ in Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im (ed), Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus (University of Pennsylvania Press 1992).

2 See e.g. Celestine Nyamu, ‘How Should Human Rights and Development Respond to Cultural Legitimization of Gender Hierarchy in Developing Countries?’ (2000) 41(2) Harvard International Law Journal 381.

3 See e.g. Peggy Levitt and Sally Engle Merry, ‘Vernacularization on the Ground: Local Uses of Global Women's Rights in Peru, China, India and the United States’ (2009) 9(4) Global Networks 441.

4 See e.g. Tom Zwart, ‘Using Local Culture to Further the Implementation of International Human Rights: The Receptor Approach’ (2012) 34(2) Human Rights Quarterly 546.

5 See e.g. Yvonne Donders, ‘Human Rights and Cultural Diversity: Too Hot to Handle?’ (2012) 30(4) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 377.

6 See e.g. Federico Lenzerini, The Culturalization of Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press 2014) 116–212.

7 See e.g. Abdullahi An-Na’im, Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and International Law (Syracuse University Press 1990); see for an overview of writers claiming that Islam and human rights can be integrated Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Traditions and Politics (Westview Press 2013) 13.

8 For an elaboration on this discussion, see Mark Ellis, ‘Islamic and International Law: Convergence or Conflict?’ in Anver M. Emon, Mark Ellis and Benjamin Glahn, Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: Searching for Common Ground? (Oxford University Press 2012) 91–103. For an overview of writers claiming that Islam and human rights cannot (easily) be integrated, see Emile Sahliyeh, ‘The Status of Human Rights in the Middle East: Prospects and Challenges’ in David P. Forsythe and Patrice C. McMahon (eds), Human Rights and Diversity: Area Studies Revisited (University of Nebraska Press 2003) 264–66; Jack Donnelly, ‘Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights’ (1984) 6(4) Human Rights Quarterly 400; Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilization and the Remarking of World Order (Simon and Schuster 1996).

9 See Fraser’s (160) reference to the UDHR in connection with the title of her book.