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Belder, Lucky; Porsdam, Helle --- "Introduction: outlining the field of cultural rights and its importance" [2017] ELECD 1424; in Belder, Lucky; Porsdam, Helle (eds), "Negotiating Cultural Rights" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 1

Book Title: Negotiating Cultural Rights

Editor(s): Belder, Lucky; Porsdam, Helle

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786435415

Section Title: Introduction: outlining the field of cultural rights and its importance

Author(s): Belder, Lucky; Porsdam, Helle

Number of pages: 20

Extract:

Introduction: outlining the field of
cultural rights and its importance
Lucky Belder and Helle Porsdam

THE MANDATE AND THIS VOLUME
The Human Rights Council established the mandate of the United
Nations Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights in 2009 with
Resolution 10/23. It was Cuba that, as a member of the Council,
introduced this Resolution and conducted the procedural and diplomatic
process leading up to its adoption by the Council, and it is Cuba that is in
charge of the yearly resolutions of the Council as well as of the renewal
of the mandate every three years.1
Pakistani sociologist and feminist human rights activist Farida Shaheed
was appointed as the first Independent Expert and continued as Special
Rapporteur in the period between 2009 and 2015. During her tenure she
published ten thematic reports on the following topics: preliminary views
on the conceptual framework for the mandate (2010), the right to access
and enjoy cultural heritage (2011), the right to enjoy the benefits of
scientific progress and its application (2012), cultural rights of women on
an equal basis with men (2012), the right to the freedom of artistic
expression and creativity (2013), the writing and teaching of history
(2013), memorialization processes (2014), the impact of advertising and
marketing practices on the enjoyment of cultural rights (2014), and the
impact of copyright and patent policies on the enjoyment of the right to
science and culture (two separate reports published in 2015).2
Shaheed's list of thematic reports ...