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This book gathers the lectures presented on the Seminary of Cultural Rights in the City, which took place in Bogotá the 23rd and 24rd of november of 2010 and which constituted the stage for reflexion about a cultural policy with emphasis on human rights for the capital.
The seminar intended to give elements on two principal points: the content and the reach of the cultural rights in conformity of the international and national legal frames and the lineaments to elaborate, implement and evaluate the public policy oriented to guarantee these rights.
The reflexion about these two points had as a direct reference Bogotá, a city that not only faces the complex differences of a globalized world, but also those of a pluri-ethnical country and marked by a long lasting armed conflict, as the colombian one.

Even though this book si therefor oriented to provide elements for the debate about the cultural policy in Bogotá, the reflections that it contains have also a more general reach. The reader will therefore find, on one side, a more panoramic vision on the normative joint of cultural rights and the principal contemporary debates related to the recognition and guarantee of them and, on the other hand, the guidelines to think about public policies that approach legal rights that result as a useful resource not only in the frame of culture but also in all those of public intervention.