Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights

This second edition of the book updates the information on relevant developments that took place in the time elapsed. and incorporates several new chapters on important issues related to religious freedoms. Such are the chapters on freedom from religion, religion and freedom of association, religion and freedom of expression (including the controversy with respect of defamation of religions), and group rights and legal pluralism. The order of the chapters has been rearranged.

Professor Natan Lerner, after retiring from Tel Aviv University, teaches international law, human rights, and law and religion, at the Faculty of Law of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He is the author, among others, of The UN Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and Group Rights and Discrimination in International Law, both published by Martinus Nijhoff and translated into other languages, and of numerous articles in his field. He was appointed by the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights of the United Nations as a member of the expertseminar dealing with defamation of religions and incitement to racial and religious hatred.