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Book SynopsisTom Lantos was a Hungarian-born U.S. Congressman remembered for raising awareness and respect for human rights around the world. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1980 becoming the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the Congress. In 1983 he co-founded and chaired the Congressional Human Rights Caucus renamed in his honour as the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. With articles authored by leading academics this Festschrift remembers Tom Lantos’s extensive human rights activism on the human rights themes he was passionately involved with around the world. The essays offer new insights on a range of topical human rights issues, such as human rights education, religious freedom, post-conflict justice, minority rights and identity politics.
Table of ContentsTribute Joe Biden Preface Katrina Lantos Swett Foreword Anna-Mária Bíró Notes on Contributors 1 The Human Rights Legacy of Congressman Tom Lantos Robert R. King Photo Section 2 Religious Freedom in Iran and the Middle East: The Case of the Baháʾís in Selected Countries Geoffrey Cameron and Nazila Ghanea 3 Friends in High Places? The Externalisation of Hungarian Minority Rights Claims Myra A. Waterbury 4 Dealing with the Past in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Truth, Memory and Identity after Atrocity Edin Hodžić 5 Human Rights Education and Training: Global Standards and Efforts Underway in China Gudmundur Alfredsson and Zhang Wei 6 Minority Rights in Myanmar: Negotiating Identity Politics and Human Rights Andrew Fagan 7 Sudan: A Country of Many Identities Subdued to One Rania El Rajji 8 Contemporary Forms of the Oldest Hatred: Modern Antisemitism in the Visegrád Countries Ildikó Barna, Anikó Félix, Grigorij Mesežnikov, Rafal Pankowski and Veronika Šternová
