Contents FOREWORD CULTURAL RIGHTS & THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS CULTURAL RIGHTS & THE 2005 UNESCO CONVENTION ON THE PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF THE DIVERSITY OF CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY ARTISTIC FREEDOM • The Farida Shaheed report • Monitoring of violations • Artistic freedom – the landscape • My rights have been violated – what can I do? GENDER MAINSTREAMING & CULTURAL RIGHTS • Women • LGBTQI+ - A Mixed Reality Globally • UNESCO, gender, and culture • Dealing with inequality CULTURAL RIGHTS & PUBLIC SPACE • What is private and What is public? • Public Space, ‘Monu-Men’ domination and visual pollution CULTURAL RIGHTS & CLIMATE CHANGE CULTURE & ADVOCACY • Are you a cultural rights defender? UN ORGANIZATIONS, UN MECHANISMS & UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES • UNESCO • UN Human Rights Council, UPR Mechanism • The special procedures of the Human Rights Council • UN SR in the field of cultural rights • Special Rapporteur for freedom of opinion & expression • UN complaints mechanisms • UNESCO individual complaints (Procedure of 104 Ex/ Decision 3.3) COUNCIL OF EUROPE & EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AFTERWORDS BIOS BIBLIOGRAPHY 4 6 9 12 17 18 20 20 22 23 23 25 29 32 33 36 37 38 40 42 43 43 43 44 44 45 45 47 47 49 50 51 3

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