Concept Of Human Dignity In Human Rights Discourse

Author : David Kretzmer,Eckart Klein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004478190

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The notion of human dignity plays a central role in human rights discourse. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognition of the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. The international Covenants on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and on Civil and Political Rights state that all human rights derive from inherent dignity of the human person. Some modern constitutions include human dignity as a fundamental non-derogable right; others mention it as a right to be protected alongside other rights. It is not only lawyers concerned with human rights who have to contend with the concept of human dignity. The concept has been discussed by, inter alia, theologians, philosophers, and anthropologists. In this book leading scholars in constitutional and international law, human rights, theology, philosophy, history and classics, from various countries, discuss the concept of human dignity from differing perspectives. These perspectives help to elucidate the meaning of the concept in human rights discourse.

Author : David Kretzmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041117830

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Society and Law: Grit Kamir

Author : Brett G. Scharffs,Ewelina U. Ochab
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000457346

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Dignity and International Human Rights Law by Brett G. Scharffs,Ewelina U. Ochab Pdf

The Punta del Este Declaration, and this book dedicated to elaborating upon it, is devoted to exploring the ways that human dignity for everyone everywhere can be a useful tool in helping to address the challenges and strains facing human rights in the world today. In 2018, an initiative was instigated to revitalize the human rights project by way of engaging the notion of human dignity. This resulted in the Punta Del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere (Punta Del Este Declaration), a declaration co-authored by over 30 human rights experts from all over the world. The Punta Del Este Declaration simplifies and brings coherence to the concept of human dignity in 10 brief statements that capture the many dimensions and aspects of human dignity and the practical ways that human dignity is useful in the promotion of human rights. This book provides an overview of how the notion of human dignity has been used to strengthen human rights. It discusses how human dignity playsmany different roles in human rights discourse and has the force to revitalize the human rights project; it is the foundational principle upon which the human rights project is built. But it is also the telos, or end goal, of human rights. At the same time, it is an important evaluative mechanism for assessing how well a country is doing in the implementation of human rights. The book will be a valuable resource for all those working in the areas of International Human Rights Law, Legal Philosophy, and Law and Religion.

Author : Pablo Gilabert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198827221

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Human Dignity and Human Rights by Pablo Gilabert Pdf

Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is human dignity, why is it important, and what is its relationship to human rights? This book offers a sophisticated and comprehensive defence of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of human rights. First, it clarifies the network of concepts associated with dignity. Paramount within this network is a core notion of human dignity as an inherent, non-instrumental, egalitarian, and high-priority normative status of human persons. People have this status in virtue of their valuable human capacities rather than as a result of their national origin and other conventional features. Second, it shows how human dignity gives rise to an inspiring ideal of solidaristic empowerment, which calls us to support people's pursuit of a flourishing life by affirming both negative duties not to block or destroy, and positive duties to protect and facilitate, the development and exercise of the valuable capacities at the basis of their dignity. The most urgent of these duties are correlative to human rights. Third, this book illustrates how the proposed dignitarian approach allows us to articulate the content, justification, and feasible implementation of specific human rights, including contested ones, such as the rights to democratic political participation and to decent labour conditions. Finally, this book's dignitarian approach helps illuminate the arc of humanist justice, identifying both the difference and the continuity between the basic requirements of human rights and more expansive requirements of social justice such as those defended by liberal egalitarians and democratic socialists. Human dignity is indeed the moral heart of human rights. Understanding it enables us to defend human rights as the urgent ethical and political project that puts humanity first.

Author : Christopher McCrudden
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 0197265820

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Understanding Human Dignity by Christopher McCrudden Pdf

The concept of 'human dignity' has become central to politics, law and theology but is little understood. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of edited essays from specialists in law, theology, politics and history and defines the main areas of current debates about the concept in these disciplines.

Author : LIU Renxiang
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788283480474

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Two Types of ‘Dignity’ and Their Role in International Human Rights by LIU Renxiang Pdf

Author : Camilla Barker
Publisher : Camilla Barker
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781456502157

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Dignity in International Human Rights Law by Camilla Barker Pdf

International human rights law has at its core a concept that is so paradoxical, illogical and impractical that it renders itself incapable of accepted definition. It is a concept that sits still and silent in human rights legislation and screams at the top of its voice in human rights litigation. Its unwavering presence in the post-Nazism world not only confirms its importance in everything we do and say as human rights lawyers but it also calls into question whether it has indeed passed its use-by-date and fallen into the dark depths of ineptitude. This begs the question: "Does the concept of dignity have any meaning in international human rights law?" This study is a critical examination of the role that dignity plays in international human rights law. Sections include: defining dignity; the conceptual development of dignity; dignity in international human rights texts; dignity in judicial discourse; and dignity in legal process.

Author : Stephan P. Leher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351665124

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Dignity and Human Rights by Stephan P. Leher Pdf

Is it impossible to assess dignity, the agency of autonomy and equality of rights under the current rule of law, when we are met by global challenges like climate change, financial crisis, food crisis, natural disasters, inequality, violent conflicts and trade disputes? Drawing on European philosophical enlightenment to rethink dominant theories of contemporary Western Human Rights, Stephan P. Leher explores the philosophical foundation of the concept of ‘dignity’ and Human Rights. Using specific examples from Africa and Latin America to explain these concepts as social realizations in the world, Leher demonstrates the link between justice and peace and contends that dignity, freedom and Human Rights law rule are social realizations and claims by all people. He argues that sentences and propositions about social choices and realizations of real life expressed in ordinary language constitutes the basic element for the foundation and protection of human dignity and Human Rights. The social choice to claim one’s freedom and right can be considered as the dignity agency of the individual. Dignity and Human Rights sheds new light on the academic assessment of dignity, the agency of autonomy and equality of rights under a rule of law in a time of changes and challenges of human rights policies and politics.

Author : Hoda Mahmoudi,Michael L. Penn
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789738230

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights by Hoda Mahmoudi,Michael L. Penn Pdf

This timely collection brings together a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to offer an interdisciplinary investigation into a discourse, research, and action agenda in pursuit of the universal application of human dignity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472089031

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Human Rights by Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns Pdf

DIVBrings together essays that examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics /div

Author : Jack Donnelly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0801487765

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Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice by Jack Donnelly Pdf

(unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Christopher McCrudden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Dignity
ISBN : 0191760382

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Understanding Human Dignity by Christopher McCrudden Pdf

Author : Mark P. Lagon,Anthony Clark Arend
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626161207

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Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions by Mark P. Lagon,Anthony Clark Arend Pdf

In Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions contributors examine how traditional and emerging institutions are already advancing human dignity, and identify strategies to make human dignity more central to the work of global institutions. They explore traditional state-created entities, hybrid institutions and faith-based organizations.

Author : Matthias Lutz-Bachmann,Amos Nascimento
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317119708

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Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Cosmopolitan Ideals by Matthias Lutz-Bachmann,Amos Nascimento Pdf

This book makes a significant contribution to the on-going international dialogue on the meaning of concepts such as human rights, humanity, and cosmopolitanism. The authors propose a new agenda for research into a Critical Theory of Human Rights. Each chapter pursues three goals: to reconstruct modern philosophical theories that have contributed to our views on human rights; to highlight the importance of humanity and human dignity as a complementary dimension to liberal rights; and, finally, to integrate these issues more directly in contemporary discussions about cosmopolitanism. The authors not only present multicultural perspectives on how to rethink political and international theory in terms of the normativity of human rights, but also promote an international dialogue on the prospects for a critical theory of human rights discourses in the 21st century.