The Concept of Human Dignity in Human Rights Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23136239 |
|---|---|
| Editors | David Kretzmer, Eckart Klein (0009-0003-7176-6919) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Concept of Human Dignity in Human Rights Discourse (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill | Nijhoff (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004478190 |
| OpenAlex | W607578867 |
| ISBN | 9789004478190 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
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.
Dignity · Environmental ethics · Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Linguistic rights · Political science · Right to property · Sociology · Human Rights and Development · International Human Rights and Reproductive Law · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy
Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity
A Magna Carta for Children
Ethical requirements for generative AI in brand content creation
The significance of human dignity for social movements
The Necessity for a Business and Human Rights Treaty
Universal Human Dignity
Dignity as humanness
Respect for human dignity as ‘substantive basic norm’
Interpretation of the Prohibition of Torture
Normative Versus Taxonomic Humanity
Official Apologies and the Quest for Historical Justice
Humiliation
Embodied Self-Respect and the Fragility of Human Dignity
Who are ‘people’ and why are they ‘like us’
The importance of honor concerns across eight countries
Globalization and Housing Rights
The Justice of Improving Security and Confronting Poverty
The Concept of Dignity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dignity and the right of internally displaced adolescents in Colombia to sexual and reproductive health
Fishing for dignity
Revealing student nurses' perceptions of human dignity through curriculum co-design
In Search for Human Dignity
Dignity Is Distinct From Respect
Human dignity in concept and practice
Honor and Dignity in the Film Unforgiven
Sociology in the Garden
Pray local and act global? Christian religiosity in the U.S. and human rights
Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors
Democracy and Human Dignity
Conceptualizing human dignity as a political concept
Human Dignity Along a Spectrum
Rethinking Dignity and Exploitation in Human Trafficking and Sex Workers’ Rights Cases
Evil's Place in the Ethics of Social Work
Human dignity
The Vacuous Concept of Dignity
Decency and the Liberal International (Dis)Order
“What dignity is there in that?”
Dignity's Gauntlet
Dignity as the Absence of the Bestial
Bioethical pastoral
Foreign Fads or Fashions? The Role of Comparativism in Human Rights Law
Apprehensions
Judicial Interpretation of Human Dignity by Hong Kong's Courts
Human (Relational) Dignity
| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |