HUMAN DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6436431Keywords:
human dignity, human rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI)Abstract
The concept of human dignity as the most intimate human desire and its interpretations transgress the fields of theology or philosophy and shows its relevance in policymaking, economics or technology. This article analyzes the concept of dignity as a cornerstone of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Drawing its legitimacy from the United Nations as a community of nation states, the charter states its universality but as such it was and still is today questioned and denied. The UDHR antagonistic counterpart was drafted in 1990 in Cairo, bears the title the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam and is, according to its drafters, also based on the concept of dignity, leading to the question of diverse and opposed interpretation and implementation of the concept.
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