Culture and Human Rights: The Wroclaw Commentaries

The WROCLAW COMMENTARIES address legal questions as well as political consequences related to freedom of, and access to, the arts and (old/new) media; questions of religious and language rights; the protection of minorities and other vulnerable groups; safeguarding cultural diversity and heritage; and further pertinent issues.

Specialists from all over Europe and the world summarise and comment on core messages of legal instruments, the essence of case-law as well as prevailing and important dissenting opinions in the literature, with the aim of providing a user-friendly tool for the daily needs of decision or law-makers at different juridical, administrative and political levels as well as others working in the field of culture and human rights.

• A basic guide to human rights issues in the wider domain of "culture"


• Developed by ARCult Media in the context of Wroclaw – European Capital of Culture 2016


• 7 overview articles and over 120 keyword entries, written by 95 experts