{"page_header":"Dignity Rights Project: Dignity in Action","top_image":"{staticroot}files\/pages\/dignityrightsheaderweb-2.jpg","page_intro":"<div style=\"float: right; width: 33%; background-color: #ffda00; border-style: solid; padding: 2px;\">\r\n<h5>The legal right to human dignity<\/h5>\r\n<p>Human dignity is recognized in international law from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) to the Sustainable Development Goals (2015).<\/p>\r\n<p>Dignity is entrenched in most of the world's constitutions as a right (\"everyone has a right to human dignity and to have that dignity respected\") or a foundational value (\"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>Human dignity is now recognized in public law, private law, criminal law, and administrative law, in areas ranging from the environment to housing to procedural rights of political participation to access to justice.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p>Dignity recognizes the equal and inalienable value of every member of the human family. The <strong>Dignity Rights Project<\/strong> sets dignity in action through public and professional education, advocacy, and support for high-impact lawyering.<\/p>\r\n<h5>What we do<\/h5>\r\n<p>Throughout the world, dignity is compromised, impaired, violated, and continually tested in ways that affect real people in real ways; among the most vulnerable to violations of human dignity are indigenous people, climate and war refugees, victims of domestic and political violence, and those who defend and advocate for them.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Dignity Rights Project works in tandem with legal, academic, non-profit, community-based organizations in all parts of the world to advance the human right to dignity in three principal ways:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Education:<\/strong> Public education, legal education, and professional training and workshop programs, and scholarship on dignity-related questions.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Advocacy:<\/strong> Coordination and collaboration with governments, communities and members of civil society including dignity rights assessments.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Litigation Support:<\/strong> Consultation, research, fact-finding, brief-writing, and oral argument for potential and ongoing litigation.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","page_content":"","callouts":[],"callouts_visual":[],"page_fact_display":""}