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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Cultural Diversity

Anabela Costa Leão

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
June 2022

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Civil society — Economic, social, and cultural rights — Cultural rights — Discrimination — Ethnic minorities — Indigenous communities

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 According to the broad concept of culture adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), culture is ‘the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group’ which ‘encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs’ (Preamble of the UNESCO non-binding Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (‘UDCD’), adopted in 2001). 2 Societies are considered culturally diverse in the sense that persons...
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