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Overcrowding in prisons: Health and legal implications
TortureIntroduction: Prison overcrowding can be defined in different ways, and no universal definition exists. More than 120 countries report prison occupancy rates above their own capacity.
Eva Nudd +3 more
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Human Dignity in Law – A Case Study of the Polish Legal System
The Person and the Challenges, 2016 Human dignity is one of the most fundamental ideas in the entire international human rights system. As from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in 1948, the concept of the human dignity become used as a tool to protect the basic needs of ...
Magdalena Butrymowicz
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Judicial Interpretation of Human Dignity by Hong Kong’s Courts
SAGE Open, 2022 This study employed empirical, case, and comparative analysis methods to examine how Hong Kong’s courts have judicially interpreted the concept of human dignity.
Taixia Shen
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Human cloning and human dignity [PDF]
حقوق بشر, 2006 Catholic Church and most of Muslims believe that human cloning is in contrast with human rights. They argue that applying Somatic Nuclear Transfer Technique or so-called cloning to humans is against human dignity.
Hasan Eslami
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Poverty: A Challenge to Human Dignity?
Diaconia, 2010 How does the widespread phenomenon of poverty constitute a challenge to human dignity? This article argues firstly that a pervasive idea of human dignity, namely one that links dignity with autonomy, indeed evokes moral insights and guidance that are ...
Ulla Schmidt
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The Recovery of Human Dignity in Protestant Christianity and Its Ethical Implications
Religions, 2023 Human dignity, in the Protestant traditions, was generally formulated in reaction to Catholicism. Initial assessments of human dignity were less than enthusiastic and framed soteriologically and contingent on God’s saving grace.
Paul Martens, Wemimo B. Jaiyesimi
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ReligionsThis article explores the significance of context in defining death, particularly through the lens of the Harvard definition and the critiques offered by Josef Seifert.
Gusztáv Kovács
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Identity and dignity within the human rights discourse: An anthropological and praxis approach
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2014 The theological discourse mostly focuses on the moral and ethical framework for human rights and human dignity. In order to give theological justification to the value and dignity of human beings, most theologians point to the imago Dei as theological ...
Daniel J. Louw
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Human Dignity: Final, Inherent, Absolute?
Rivista di Estetica, 2020 In the traditional understanding, human dignity is often portrayed as a «final», «inherent», and «absolute» value. If human dignity as the core of the status of a human being did indeed have thos characteristics, this would yield a severe limitation for ...
Sebastian Muders
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The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
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