• DOI:10.1353/hrq.2011.0063
• Corpus ID: 142866950

Politics, Identity, and México’s Indigenous Rights Movements (review)

@article{Stavenhagen2011PoliticsIA,
  title={Politics, Identity, and M{\'e}xico’s Indigenous Rights Movements (review)},
  author={Rodolfo Stavenhagen},
  journal={Human Rights Quarterly},
  year={2011},
  volume={33},
  pages={1169 - 1176}
}

• R. Stavenhagen
• Published 2 November 2011
• Political Science
• Human Rights Quarterly

26. Id. at 200. 27. Id. at 199. their own right of religious freedom or for the rights of religious organizations to provide such religious education. The author thus identifies a tension between a human rights approach to religious freedom that protects the minority believer or non-adherent and what she identifies as a positive approach to freedom of religion that protects the right of the majority—either religious organizations or parents—to utilize denominational education. Ultimately, Mawhinney concludes that the Irish government must protect both the majority and the minority. She therefore suggests, that perhaps the answer for Ireland lies in the state creating a system of its own state-run primary schools or “working with those organisations that are attempting to provide alternatives”26 to the current system in which religious entities have almost a monopoly, “functionally or geographically,”27 with regard to the provision of this most important of public services, primary school education. Mawhinney’s solution is quite clear—the Irish system must change—both because it is legally obligated to do so through the country’s own acceptance of its responsibility to implement international human rights standards and because a changing population may well ultimately demand it. She makes her case quite well.