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Human Dignity and Judicial
Interpretation of Human Rights
- In legal systems, based on Roman law, dignity was seen as a right of personality and status, and
criminal and civil remedies were frequently provided if dignity in this sense was infringed.
- Dignity
- Dignity is becoming commonplace in the legal texts providing for human rights protections in many
jurisdictions.
- Used frequently in judicial
decisions
- In the international sphere, this concept of dignity was frequently used to
refer to the status of sovereign states and, by extension, to the status of
ambassadorial and consular staff serving their countries abroad.
- The idea of dignitas came to be used as the way of
distinguishing between Man and other creatures
- The subsequent development of dignity drew substantially on the importance of Man as having the
capacity of reason, whilst dropping the religious elements of humanist writings such as those of Pico
- Human dignity
- Kant’s understanding of human dignity required that individuals should be
treated as ends and not simply as means to an end
- The father of the modern concept of human dignity ’
- The text of the Bill of Rights of the European Movement of May 1948, provided in Article 1: ‘
[a]ll men are born free and equal in dignity ’ , 81 and in Article 29 that ‘ every one has a right
that his dignity and health shall be preserved through the provision of a diet, of clothing, of
housing and of medical requirements up to a standard corresponding to the resources of the
European Union in relation to vital necessities ’ .
- Human Dignity in the UN Charter and the UDHR
- ‘ [a]ll human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
- Human Dignity in International Humanitarian Law Texts
- During the 19th century to dignity in national provisions relating to the
treatment of prisoners
- Dignity and International Human Rights Texts after the 1940s
- By 1986, dignity had become so central to United Nations ’ conceptions of human rights that the UN
General Assembly provided, in its guidelines for new human rights instruments, that such
instruments should be ‘ of fundamental character and derive from the inherent dignity and worth of
the human person
- The concept of dignity is vague and open to interpretation and gives judges discretion;
in that it does not differ from all human rights obligations and rights
- In William Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude , the concept of the ‘ dignity of individual man ’ is also used, as
a counterpoint to the idea that the value of Man is to be judged only by economic capacity and
contribution
- In Europe and in Latin America, dignity came to be particularly associated with the abolition of
slavery
- First half of the 20th century, dignity began to enter legal, and particularly constitutional and
international legal
- All human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material
well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security
and equal opportunity
- When we talk about
autonomy, it refers to
individual freedom or one's
right to make decisions
without being coerced.
- It is the concept of social, political
and ethical morals that give
individuals the rational right to
make their own informed choices.
- He term "human rights" is one that Eleanor Roosevelt
brought into widespread use. Previously these rights
were called the "rights of man" (or sometimes, "natural
rights"). She chose "human" as a more inclusive
modifier.
- Notice that is not "because they are human." Being human is neither
necessary nor sufficient to capture the sense of what characteristics
qualify one for "human rights."
- The Declaration of Independence clearly rests on the assumption that human rights exist:
all persons are created equal, for all are endowed with certain "inalienable rights." In the
strongest sense, to say that a right is inalienable means that it cannot be taken away by
others, traded away by the person, or forfeited as a result of the person's actions.
- it means that the right cannot be taken or traded
away, but it could be forfeited through the person's
actions.
- Rights that may be removed are called alienable.
- There is another important
distinction between types of rights
that cuts across the other distinctions
considered so far.
- On the one hand, some rights require of others only
that they not interfere with or restrict the
rights-holder. These are called negative rights or
liberties. On the other hand, there are positive rights,
which are claims to receive something. To respect
another's negative right requires only that you not
interfere with the person's exercise of the right in
question, and not that you provide her with particular
opportunities to practice this right.
- Differences in the
conceptions of dignity in
judicial interpretation
- WeightandStatusofDignity There are significant variations between jurisdictions on the legal status
and weight of human dignity.There is, according to the jurisprudence of the courts, no way to
balance other legal interests, be they of other individuals or of the community, with the dignity of a
person.
- The principle of proportionality does not
come into play as long as an intrusion
upon human dignity has been established.
- Individualistic Versus
Communitarian Conceptions
of Dignity
- An important distinction could be identified between the use of dignity
to express a communitar- ian ideal and one that was much more
focussed on the role of dignity in furthering individual autonomy, in
the sense of advancing individual liberty based upon the choice of the
individual.
- Pluralism and Relativism
- Dignity may be a constitutionally protected principle, but it is not an inviolable or
a supreme principle.
- Lord Hoffmann ‘ of course we share a common humanity. … Nevertheless … the
specific answers, the degree to which weight is given to one desirable objective
rather than another, will be culturally determined. Different communities will,
through their legislature and judges, adopt the answers which they think suit
them. ´
- It seems like dignity has different meaning all over the world and
everyone put whatever they want in their laws
- Rodrigo Díaz Infante
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- Paola Vásquez Méndez
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- Luis Roberto Ramírez Méndez
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