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    "page_header": "About Dignity Rights",
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    "page_content": "<p>The Dignity Rights Institute works with partners locally and around the world to advance knowledge and capacity-building around the right to human dignity.</p>\r\n<p>Recent projects include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Dignity Rights <strong>Handbooks</strong> for Judges and Civil Society Organizations</li>\r\n<li><strong>Petition</strong> to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission on behalf of children in Haiti</li>\r\n<li>Dignity-based <strong>proposals</strong> to reform indigenous constitutions.</li>\r\n<li><strong>Submission to the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights on the dignity rights of children in the face of climate change.</strong></li>\r\n<li><strong>White papers</strong> on environmental injustice, educational injustice, discrimination, and the dignity rights of vulnerable and marginalized communities around the world.</li>\r\n<li><strong>Reform proposals</strong> to improve conditions for people who are or have been incarcerated in Delaware.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div style=\"background-color: #80b7ea; border-style: solid; padding: 2px;\">\r\n<p>\"The Dignity Rights Project seeks to make these voices heard and these injustices visible so that they can be addressed. It further seeks to make changes in law, policy, even in small day-to-day ways of doing things. Dignity is actionable through all sorts of channels that we will have to explore as well as create.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">- Catherine Dupr&eacute;, author <br />of <em>The Age of Dignity</em></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<!-- COMMENTED OUT <hr />\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Home |&nbsp;&nbsp;Who We Are&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;Events and Activities&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;Additional Resources</h3>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Human dignity is recognized a foundational value and as a legal right in international law from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) to the Sustainable Development Goals (2015) and in most of the world's constitutions. It is integral to public law, private law, criminal law, and administrative law in areas ranging from environmental protection to housing to procedural rights of political participation and access to justice.</p>\r\n<p><em>\"As constitutions explicitly protect human dignity, and courts [give it] meaning, people around the world increasingly develop a feeling of dignity &ndash; an internalized awareness of their own worth and of the power it carries.\"</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>-Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person</em></p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p><strong>DIGNITY RIGHTS</strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"x_gmail-MsoNormalCxSpFirst\">\"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world&hellip;\"</p>\r\n<p class=\"x_gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"right\"><em>-- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, Preamble</em></p>\r\n<p class=\"x_gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"x_gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">\"The defense of the human person and respect for his dignity are the supreme purpose of the society and the State.\"</p>\r\n<p class=\"x_gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"right\"><em>--Constitution of Peru 1993, Title I, Chapter I, Article I</em></p>\r\n<p class=\"x_gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"x_gmail-MsoNormalCxSpLast\" align=\"right\">\"To preserve human dignity and to respect free development of the personality is the core value of the constitutional structure of free democracy.\"</p>\r\n<p class=\"x_gmail-MsoListParagraph\" align=\"right\"><em>--Constitutional Court of Taiwan, J.Y. Interpretation No. 603 (2005.9.28)</em></p>\r\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Human dignity refers to the inherent humanness of each person.&nbsp; It is not an attribute or an interest to be protected or advanced, like liberty or equality or a house or free speech.&nbsp; Rather, human dignity is the essence of our being, without which we would not be human.&nbsp; Human dignity recognizes and reflects the equal worth of each and every member of the human family, regardless of gender, race, social or political status, talents, merit, or any other differentiator.</p>\r\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">As rendered in constitutions and enforced by constitutional courts, it is a&nbsp;<em>legal</em>&nbsp;<em>right&nbsp;</em>that can be and often is asserted against the state or others and enforced by a court.&nbsp;The right to dignity is recognized in more than 150 of the world's constitutions from all regions of the world: Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and North America, and the Pacific. Today, few constitutions are adopted or meaningfully amended without adding a reference to human dignity.&nbsp;The modern concept of dignity applies to&nbsp;<em>all&nbsp;</em>persons. It functions as an equalizer: if everyone has dignity, then everyone is subject to the same obligations and is entitled to the same benefits under the law.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"irl://1590//\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE</a> (pdf)</p> -->",
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