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Protecting the Religious Freedom of New Minorities in International Law
This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).
Author(s) | By Fabienne Bretscher. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 220 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 2 Oct 2019 |
Availability | Available |
This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).
Chapter 1: The protection of new minorities in a pluralist international legal order; Chapter 2: Comparing the standards developed for the protection of the right to freedom of religion by the ECtHR and the HRC; Chapter 3: A typology of the case law
Dr Fabienne Bretscher obtained her PhD from the University of Zurich, where she was a research fellow and teaching assistant at the Institute for International Law and Comparative Constitutional Law. Moreover, she was awarded a scholarship from the Swiss