Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Cases -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Minority protection: a story in movements -- The UN debate -- The emerging fourth movement -- Saramaka as an illustration of judicial discourse -- A note on terminology and structure -- PART I -- Chapter 2 Recognition -- Spaces of group identity -- Domestic courts and international law -- Chapter 3 Elaboration -- Indirect protection: spaces of freedom or the 'hands off approach' -- Direct protection: diff using general human rights -- Private and family life -- Property -- Education, language, participation -- Non-discrimination -- Chapter 4 Mediation -- Reconciling majority and minority interests -- Involvement in the decision-making process -- (Positive) equality as a justifi catory test -- Reconciling interests within the group -- Women and the group -- Dissenters and group representation -- Chapter 5 Access to justice -- Right to judicial protection -- Locus standi and injured party -- Continuing eff ects of rights violation -- Evidence -- PART II -- Chapter 6 Ethno-cultural diversity and international judicial discourse -- Dimensions of judicial discourse: preliminary observations -- Courts in plural societies -- The theoretical debate -- The case of socio-economic rights -- International jurisprudence re-assessed -- Expanding on the procedural model -- Between substance and procedure -- Interpretation as cross-fertilisation -- On judicial persuasiveness -- Between universalism and justice -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.