An Introduction to Intragroup Dissent and Its Legal Implications
Holning Lau · bepress Legal Repository · 2014
See generally CAUSE LAWYERS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (Austin Sarat & Stuart A. Scheingold, eds., 2006) (discussing the role of lawyers in social movements).The term "LGBT people" refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons.2. See Yash Ghai, Understanding Human Rights in Asia, in HUMAN RIGHTS: SOUTHERN VOICES 120 (William Twining ed., 2009) (explaining that "Asian values" have been invoked as a reason for rejecting certain rights claims); cf. also Alexis Okeowo, Out in Africa, NEW YORKER, Dec. 24, 2012, at 64 ("Anti-gay advocates [in Uganda] claim that they are defending "African values").3. E.g., Michael Stokes Paulsen, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Limited Public Forum: Unconstitutional Conditions on "Equal Access" for Religious Speakers and Groups, 29 U.C. DAVIS L. REV.653, 291 (1996) ("Where a group seeks to maintain a distinctive identity based on shared ideological commitments and operates wholly or primarily in a noncommercial context, the First Amendment [Freedom of Association] requires that the group be free to make adherence to the purposes and positions of the group a condition of membership."(italics omitted)); International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, art.27, Dec. 16, 1966, 6 I.L.M. 368, 999 U.N.T.S. 171 (1967) ("In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language.").