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Overcrowding in prisons: Health and legal implications

open access: yesTorture
Introduction: 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 cloning and human dignity [PDF]

open access: yesحقوق 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
doaj  

CLAIMING HUMAN DIGNITY [PDF]

open access: yesDu Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2010
In the concluding line of his opening note to Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote “I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience” (1934[2007], p. xliii).
openaire   +3 more sources

Beyond the Harvard Definition: A Critique of Josef Seifert’s Realistic Phenomenological Approach to Brain Death

open access: yesReligions
This 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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Human Dignity in Law – A Case Study of the Polish Legal System

open access: yesThe 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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Poverty: A Challenge to Human Dignity?

open access: yesDiaconia, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Judicial Interpretation of Human Dignity by Hong Kong’s Courts

open access: yesSAGE 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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The Recovery of Human Dignity in Protestant Christianity and Its Ethical Implications

open access: yesReligions, 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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From patient advocacy to patient‐driven research: Building active partnerships beginning at the bench to reach the bedside

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Research is strongest when conducted alongside patients, not just about them. Patient research organizations help integrate patient perspectives into research priorities, study design, and scientific meetings, leading to meaningful patient outcomes and development of relevant therapies.
Jenica H. Kakadia   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identity and dignity within the human rights discourse: An anthropological and praxis approach

open access: yesVerbum 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
doaj   +1 more source

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