Dignity
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Every day, scores of people there die in pursuit of
dignity.
In this and other matters, Turkey strives to act as a “virtuous power,” which requires us to align our national interests with values such as justice, democracy, and human dignity, and to achieve our foreign-policy goals through mutual cooperation rather than coercion.
The future remains uncertain, but the assumption that Arabs’ demands for fair governments and civil
dignity
can still be repressed, like a genie squeezed back into the bottle, is a self-serving fantasy of irremediable autocrats – and of some in the West.
Indeed, by his words and example, the Pope disrupts the world: it wants to live in wealth and comfort; he reminds us that we must also live in
dignity.
These ideals – respect for human rights and human dignity, and the responsibility of citizens to ensure that their governments respect those rights – represent humanity’s highest aspirations.
The better and fairer position, however, is to embrace the vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and promote unambiguously the idea that human
dignity
requires respect for the equally vital and mutually dependent freedoms from fear and want.
The danger in this is that cherry-picking certain rights to enforce secular norms will not just undermine the overall project of human rights, which aims to unite the world’s peoples and improve lives through a shared understanding of the minimum conditions necessary to advance the “inherent dignity” and equality of “all members of the human family.”
People increasingly see change not as something that enhances their freedom and
dignity
but as a force encouraging avarice and unfairness.
Preserving democratic values is hard when large sectors cannot integrate with the global market, when misery obliterates human
dignity
and a lack of options makes freedom meaningless.
Partly, it addresses safety, cleanliness, and how to charge for one’s work; but it also concerns respect for plumbers and the
dignity
of the individuals taking the course.
They are the incarnation of modernity, animated by a yearning for simple
dignity
and respect.
The governments of Austria, Luxembourg, and Greece are at the forefront of efforts to transform unemployed people who have lost all hope into workers with a renewed sense of
dignity.
Africans wanted leaders who would reconcile and reunite them – leaders who would restore to them the
dignity
that colonialism had robbed.
Still, if voting confers
dignity
on citizens, participation in a fraud is humiliating.
This was a sickening blow to all Iranians who crave the
dignity
of democratic politics.
The quiet
dignity
of the protests that followed did more for Iran’s standing in the world than any amount of belligerent posturing by a populist president.
It held that Europe’s peoples could not be divided in terms of human
dignity.
In all conflicts, human rights are among the first casualties, and in the Middle East the degradation of human
dignity
has now undone international conventions agreed over several generations.
Instead, he practiced fiscal austerity and offered Chileans dignity, plus sweat and toil (though no blood or tears).
“Our civil life and civilization are defined and judged primarily by our respect for the
dignity
of humanity and integrity of nature.”
European law solemnly declares that the human body and its parts shall not give rise to financial gain , for reasons of human
dignity.
For that, Daoud has been saddled with a double fatwa: one from his “assassin brothers,” to borrow the Algerian-French journalist Mohamed Sifaoui’s phrase, and another from a handful of supposedly progressive and anti-racist French intellectuals who accused him of “recycling the most hackneyed clichés of Orientalism” when he urged Arab men to respect the
dignity
of women.
The standard objection – that people are robbed of their
dignity
when they are given money without having to work – is ahistorical.
But no matter how frequently we proclaim that all "are born free and equal in
dignity
and rights," this clash of principles has not diminished.
His mandate was to recast the relationship in two important ways: render its terms more amenable to economic growth and job creation; and restore balance and
dignity
to the treatment of Greece by its European partners and the International Monetary Fund.
Concepts of justice and law, legitimacy and dignity, protection from oppressive rule, and participation in community affairs are found in every society; the challenge facing human rights advocates is to identify the common denominators, and not throw up their hands at the impossibility of universalism.
With that, the legitimate objectives of the revolution that began on January 25, 2011 – inclusive growth, social justice, and human
dignity
– would prove even more elusive.
The longer Egypt’s current disarray persists, the more its political elites will lose the battle for the hearts and minds of a population whose basic aspirations are summed up by four well-founded demands: bread, dignity, social justice, and democracy.
We have the ability to ensure that every person on the planet has the food, water, shelter, education, health care, and energy needed to lead a life of
dignity
and opportunity.
In 1992, Switzerland became the first country to include a statement about protecting the
dignity
of animals in its constitution;Germany followed ten years later.
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