{"title":"The Ambivalent Legacy of Minority Protection for Human Rights","authors":"Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, Mona Bieling","doi":"10.24894/2296-6013.00083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24894/2296-6013.00083","url":null,"abstract":"Most historiographical currents examining the history of human rights postulate a clear break between the collective rights tradition of interwar minority protection and the ensuing age of individual human rights. Two observations, however, suggest a more nuanced account of the transition from the League of Nations' to the United Nations' rights systems. First, the minority treaties were a hybrid system containing a mix of individual and collective rights provisions that enabled interwar rights advocates to use them as a model for the adoption of human rights instruments. Second, at the end of WWII, several delegations at the UN strongly defended the inclusion of elements of interwar minority protection within the Genocide Convention (GC) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Although these efforts were unsuccessful, they show that there was no consensus in favour of an exclusively individualist conception of human rights. More importantly, opposition to the inclusion of minority protection clauses came from Western diplomats who defended their governments' prerogative to promote the assimilation of the people inhabiting their territory into the majority culture of the state. Therefore, what prevailed during the drafting process of the GC and the UDHR was an assimilationist interpretation of human rights; one that in a context of national heterogeneity promised to favour the rights of some groups (national majorities) over those of others national minorities","PeriodicalId":82668,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte. Revue suisse d'histoire. Rivista storica svizzera","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69121254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entre migration et formation: les étudiant·e·s réfugié·e·s à l’épreuve de la démocratie directe zurichoise","authors":"Matthieu Gillabert","doi":"10.24894/2296-6013.00085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24894/2296-6013.00085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82668,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte. Revue suisse d'histoire. Rivista storica svizzera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69121013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rezensionen / Recensions / Recensioni","authors":"Sundar Henny","doi":"10.24894/2296-6013.00054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24894/2296-6013.00054","url":null,"abstract":"Iole Fargnoli, Thomas Späth (Hg.), Sklaverei und Recht. Zwischen römischer Antike und moderner Welt, Bern: Haupt, 2018 (Berner Universitätsschriften, Bd. 61), 189 Seiten. Der Sammelband «Sklaverei und Recht» enthält acht Beiträge, die auf Referaten basieren, die im Rahmen des interdisziplinären Münchenwiler Seminars der Universität Bern im Frühjahrssemester 2016 gehalten wurden. Die Herausgeber widmen den Sammelband dem Andenken einer früh verstorbenen Doktorandin am vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds (SNF) geförderten Forschungsprojekt «Eine Frage der Ungerechtigkeit? Sklaverei und Freiheitsdiskurse zwischen Antike und Moderne», das den Anstoss zu diesem Kolloquium gab. Das Seminarthema, das Verhältnis zwischen Sklaverei und Recht, ist nicht allein Gegenstand einer mehr als 200 Jahre andauernden Forschungskontroverse, sondern betrifft uns als gesellschaftspolitisches und international rechtliches Problem bis in die Gegenwart. So haben die Herausgeber einen klugen Proporz zwischen vier Juristen, drei Historikern und einem Philologen geschaffen, um nicht nur interdisziplinär, sondern auch epochenübergreifend dem scheinbaren Paradoxon nachzugehen, wie das Unrecht der Versklavung zum Gegenstand von Rechtsordnungen werden konnte (S. 9). Dabei geht es einerseits darum, die Rezeption des antiken römischen Rechts durch die Sklavenrechte der europäischen Kolonialländer in ihren aussereuropäischen Kolonien in der Neuzeit dingfest zu machen oder zu verwerfen. Zum anderen stellt sich die Frage, wie nach Abschaffung von Sklaverei, sklavenähnlichen Verhältnissen und Sklavenhandel im 19. Jahrhundert und der Aufnahme des Sklavereiverbotes in die Menschenrechte als fester Bestandteil des Völkergewohnheitsrechtes und des zwingenden Völkerrechts im 20. Jahrhundert (S. 30) es im 21. Jahrhundert immer noch 40 Millionen Sklaven geben kann (S. 17). Die Antworten fallen teils konform mit den Traditionen der Fachdisziplinen aus, teils geben sie darüber hinausgehende neue Anstösse. Wie die Herausgeber in der Einleitung darlegen, stehen sich in drei Themenblöcken je ein Jurist und ein Historiker bzw. ein Philologe gegenüber. Umrahmt werden die historischen Themen von aktuellen Thematiken. Jeder Beitrag hat ein eigenes Literaturverzeichnis, da Überschneidungen nur gering sind. Der Band schliesst mit einer kurzen Vorstellung der Autoren und Autorinnen. Register fehlen. Walter Kälin gibt mit seinem Beitrag (Sklaverei : Eine Herausforderung für das Völkerrecht) einen fundierten Überblick über die 200-jährige Entwicklung der Sklaverei von einer völkerrechtlich erlaubten, modernen und fortschrittlichen Institution um 1800 zu einer rechtsverbindlich verurteilten, gegen die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention verstossenden Praxis im 21. Jahrhundert (S. 20–28). Für die Fortexistenz der modernen Sklaverei in vielfältigen Formen (Zwangsarbeit, -prostitution, -rekrutierung, Menschenhandel, Schuldsklaverei etc.) macht der Autor die Staaten verantwortlich, die gegen die im Verborgenen,","PeriodicalId":82668,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte. Revue suisse d'histoire. Rivista storica svizzera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69119942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richesse et pauvreté chez Salvien de Marseille (Ve siècle), entre devoirs des individus et idéal social","authors":"M. Roch","doi":"10.24894/2296-6013.00067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24894/2296-6013.00067","url":null,"abstract":"Salvian of Marseilles, who lived in the 5 century, is best known for his De Gubernatione Dei. In it, he paints a bleak picture of Roman society at a time when Germanic peoples were migrating and settling in the western Roman provinces. Salvian dwells at length in this work on the contrast between rich and poor, and thus also on the proper use of material goods, either in relation to God or to others. This subject was still more central in an earlier work of his, Ad Ecclesiam, in which he explicitly based his argument on the first Christian community in Jerusalem as described in the Acts of the Apostles. The thesis here is that despite their differences, Ad Ecclesiam and De Gubernatione Dei were aspects of the same train of thought, even though the works were likely addressed to different audiences.","PeriodicalId":82668,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte. Revue suisse d'histoire. Rivista storica svizzera","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69121120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Grande Guerre du Nebelspalter zurichois ou l’art consommé de la litote","authors":"L. Danguy","doi":"10.24894/2296-6013.00029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24894/2296-6013.00029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82668,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte. Revue suisse d'histoire. Rivista storica svizzera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69117821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Confédération suisse vue par l’évêque de Novare Giuseppe Morozzo della Rocca: entre soutien aux catholiques et prévention de la diffusion du protestantisme (1827)","authors":"Giacomo Lorandi","doi":"10.24894/2296-6013.00041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24894/2296-6013.00041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82668,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte. Revue suisse d'histoire. Rivista storica svizzera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69119635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Défendre l’Etat bourgeois contre le fascisme: les dirigeants sociaux-démocrates suisses après la défaite de la France de 1940","authors":"H. Buclin, Pierre Eichenberger","doi":"10.24894/2296-6013.00043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24894/2296-6013.00043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82668,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte. Revue suisse d'histoire. Rivista storica svizzera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69119536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}