{"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":"<h5>Who we are<\/h5>\r\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 33%; padding: 5px;\"><img src=\"irl:\/\/1180\/\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"95%\" \/><\/div>\r\n<p>The Dignity Rights Project is co-directed by <a href=\"ipl:\/\/20\/\/WyIyOSJd\">Erin Daly<\/a> and <a href=\"ipl:\/\/20\/\/WyIxMjIiXQ==\">James R. May<\/a>. Erin Daly is Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School (USA), and Vice President, Institutional Development, UNIFA (Universit&eacute; de la Fondation Aristide) in Haiti. She is the author of <em>Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person<\/em> (Penn Constitution and Democracy Series) and the co-author of <em>Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground<\/em> (Penn Series on Human Rights).<\/p>\r\n<p>James R. May is Distinguished Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School and Chief Sustainability Officer, Widener University (USA) and the editor of <em>Principles of Constitutional Environmental Law<\/em> (ABA) and co-editor of <em>Shale Gas and the Future of Energy<\/em> (Edward Elgar). Together, they are the authors of <em>Global Environmental Constitutionalism<\/em> (Cambridge) and the editors of <em>Environmental Constitutionalism<\/em> (Edward Elgar), <em>New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism<\/em> (United National Environment Programme, forthcoming), and <em>Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism<\/em> (Cambridge, forthcoming).<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Affiliated Faculty and Partners<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Ana Lucia Maya Aguirre, Bogota, Colombia<\/li>\r\n<li>Catherine Dupr&eacute;, Exeter, U.K.<\/li>\r\n<li>Universit&eacute; de la Fondation Aristide, Tabarre, Haiti<\/li>\r\n<li>Annie Booth, University of Northern British Columbia<\/li>\r\n<li>Chester Environmental Partnership, Chester, U.S.<\/li>\r\n<li>Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti\/Bureau des Avocats Internationales, Boston, U.S. and Port-au-Prince, Haiti<\/li>\r\n<li>United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h5>Additional Resources<\/h5>\r\n<p>Laurie Ackerman, Human Dignity: Lodestar for Equality in South Africa (2012)<\/p>\r\n<p>Aharon Barak, Human Dignity: The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right (2015)<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sabine-C.-Carey\/e\/B001HOH0HO\/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_8?qid=1476195427&amp;sr=1-8\">Sabine C. Carey&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mark Gibney, The Politics of Human Rights: The Quest for Dignity<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\r\n<p>Catherine Dupr&eacute;, The Age of Dignity: Human Rights and Constitutionalism in Europe (2015)<\/p>\r\n<p>Marcus D&uuml;well and&nbsp;Jens Braarvig (eds.),The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2014)&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Donna Hicks Ph.D and&nbsp;Desmond Tutu, Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict (2012)<\/p>\r\n<p>Mark P. Lagon and&nbsp;Anthony Clark Arend, Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions (2014)<\/p>\r\n<p>Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Proceedings of the British Academy) (2013)<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cambridge-Handbook-Human-Dignity-Interdisciplinary\/dp\/0521195780\/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1476195427&amp;sr=1-5&amp;keywords=human+dignity\">Michael Rosen, Dignity: Its History and Meaning<\/a> (2012)<\/p>","callouts":[],"callouts_visual":[],"page_fact_display":""}