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Juxta Publishing is pleased to announce a new freely-available e-book entitled "Human Rights, Faith and Culture". This volume, produced by the Association for Baha'i Studies in Australia, presents a collection of papers by a diverse group of thinkers at a 1998 conference on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human rights, in Canberra, Australia. Distinguished contributors to this work include:

Zita Antonios -- Department of Justice
Gillian Bird -- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Angela Chan -- Federation of Ethnic Communities' Council of Australia (FECCA)
Hilary Charlesworth -- Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University
Sandie Cornish -- Australian Catholic Social Justice Council
Graham Hassall -- Landegg International University (Switzerland)
Jeremy Jones -- International Community Affairs of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council
Robert McCorquodale -- Faculty of Law at the Australian National University
Ann Pickering -- Author, Tibetan Philosohpy
Juliet Sheen -- Independent Consultant on freedom of religion and belief
Asmi Wood -- Canberra Islamic Centre and Australian National Islamic Library

This publication aims to cover a diversity of Australian opinion and in itself demonstrates that, despite the road yet to be traversed, human rights have had a profound and positive impact on Australia.

This electronic edition is prepared with the consent of the original authors; all articles first appear in this volume. The copyright of individual articles remains with the authors; the articles are included in this volume with the permission of the individual authors. Requests to reproduce individual articles should be directed in writing to the authors directly or to Juxta Publishing Limited. Requests to reproduce this entire volume outside the provisions of the license stated above should be directed in writing to Juxta Publishing Limited.