Religion and Human Rights Series Religion, Beliefs, and International Human Rights   Natan Lerner
March ISBN 1-57075-301-6 200pp. Index 6 x 9-1/4 Paper $25.00

In this volume a distinguished Israeli jurist provides an authoritative distillation and analysis of modern international norms on religious rights and liberties. Religion, Beliefs, and International Human Rights gives particular attention to modern controversies over religious and racial discrimination, genocide and group libel, proselytism and conversion, and religious groups rights and their limits. Includes an Appendix with selections from international human rights instruments.

• Introduction
• Religion Human Rights under the United Nations
• Regional Protections of Religious Human Rights
• Protecting Religious Groups from Persecution and Incitement
• Proselytism and Change of Religion
• Summary and Conclusions
• Appendix

Natan Lerner is professor of law emeritus at the University of Tel Aviv and former director of the Israeli branch of the World Jewish Congress. He has published numerous articles in English, Spanish, and Hebrew, and is the author of Group Rights and Discrimination in International Law; The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; and In Defence of Human Rights.

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