Rights for Others, Firing Back? Decolonization and Human Rights in Dutch Constitutional History van Leeuwen, Karin Author aut Text xx# 2022 Verfassungsblog 2022-01-27 eng
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 Colonialism and decolonization have importantly shaped the constitutional trajectories of not only the colonized states, but also those of the colonizers. For the Netherlands, decolonization did not only dictate the pace of various constitutional reforms in the mid-20th century that were ‘needed’ to erase Indonesia (1948) and New Guinea (1963) from the text of the constitution, but also introduced new constitutional documents, such as the 1949 Dutch-Indonesian Union Charter and the 1954 Charter of the Kingdom. While it is necessary to critically analyze the impact of these postcolonial arrangements on former colonies, it is equally urgent to fill the profound gap in knowledge about the impact of colonialism and decolonization on domestic constitutional arrangements. CC BY-SA 4.0 van Leeuwen, Karin funded by the government colonialism Decolonization Human Rights 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/rights-for-others-firing-back/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20220127-180137-0 220127 10.17176/20220127-180137-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)