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This article examines the thesis that rights are always and only conventional rights. It identifies two versions of the conventionalist thesis by distinguishing how each understands a moral right. On one view, a moral right describes a conventional right that ought to exist, irrespective of whether it actually exists; on the other view, a moral right describes an actually existing conventional right that is morally justified. The article criticises both versions of the conventionalist understanding of moral rights and human rights. It also distinguishes the kind of social recognition that contemporary conventionalists insist is a prerequisite for a right from that proposed by T. H. Green. The article concludes with a defence of the orthodox understanding of moral rights and human rights as rights that are moral in foundation and that can be conceived as rights independently of conventional rights. Adapted from the source document.

The subject matter of this paper is the analysis of the ownership right and its limitations in neighbour-law relationships, including the restrictions on ownership and neighbours' rights due to the prohibition of abuse of rights. Neighbours' rights set boundaries to the content of the ownership right, whereas the prohibition of abuse of rights additionally restricts the freedom of exercising the recognised content of the ownership right. The paper aims to point out to the basic differences between neighbours' rights and the prohibition of abuse of rights, as well as to the occasional overlapping of their legal functions and effects.

Introduction / Andrzej Jakubowski -- Cultural rights as collective rights / Miodrag Jovanović -- The cultural contingency of the human right to freedom of religion / Lorenzo Zucca -- Collective cultural rights considered in the light of recent developments in cultural heritage law / Janet Blake -- Foundations of collective cultural rights in international human rights law / Yvonne Donders -- Protection of community culture as part of human rights in international law / Kamrul Hossain -- The safeguarding of collective cultural rights through the evolutionary interpretation of human rights treaties and their translation into principles of customary international law / Federico Lenzerini -- Cultural heritage and the collective dimension of cultural rights in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights / Andrzej Jakubowski -- Collective cultural rights in Asia : recognition and enforcement / William Logan -- Collective cultural rights as human rights simpliciter : the African and African charter example / Folarin Shyllon -- Collective cultural rights in the Inter-American human rights system / Kristin Hausler -- The international legal framework for enforcement of cultural rights / Francesco Francioni -- Standing and collective cultural rights / Ana Filipa Vrdoljak -- Collective cultural claims before the international court of justice / Eleni Polymenopoulou -- From 'Genocide' to 'Persecution' : 'cultural genocide' and contemporary international criminal law / Elisa Novic

AbstractThe present article is devoted to developing a libertarian understanding of whether natural rights may or may not underpin human rights and, if so, how. Libertarianism is first defined in terms of the nonaggression principle (NAP), in answer to the question "What is the proper use of force?" This provides a basis for the libertarian positions on property rights, taxation, and many other issues, including human rights. Various philosophical rationales for the NAP are explored, including utilitarianism, religion, and natural rights. The basis of human rights is then examined. Every ethical tradition supports the nonaggression principle, which makes it an ideal candidate for the fundamental basis of human rights. Unfortunately, other traditions expand upon human rights by adding "positive" rights that ultimately violate the NAP. The conclusion takes up the application of libertarian principles to three issues, which could be viewed as human rights questions: discrimination, abortion, and the "trolley problem." The last one involves taking one life to save many others.