Department of State's Annual Country Report on Human Rights: Human Rights, Democracy and Development

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-102
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The State ◽  
Country Report

I'm pleased today to release officially the State Department's Annual Country Report on Human Rights. These reports reflect the American people's commitment to high standardsof respect for human dignity and freedom for all people.

scholarly journals REVITALISASI MAQÂSHID AL-SYARÎ’AH DALAM ISTINBÂTH HUKUM ISLAM: KAJIAN ATAS PEMIKIRAN MUHAMMAD AL-THÂHIR IBNU ‘ÂSYÛR

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Ainol Yaqin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Personal Rights

The essence of human rights is to protect and ensure the glory and dignity of people. So it becomes important human rights principles stipulated in the legislation in order to guarantee the state of human rights can be implemented optimally. However, there are some parties who deliberately rammed by the Islamic Human Rights as a product of the Liberals are opposed to the  Sharia. In fact, both Islam and human rights, aimed at ensuring the glory and dignity of man as the principles “maqhasidu al-syari’ah” are the main objectives the implementation of Islamic law. This paper aims to prove that human rights are not contrary to Islam because it has been expressly stipulated that one-on-one purpose in religion is upholding human dignity. This paper uses legal research methods that reveal the fact that Islam protects personal rights of his people so that the necessary regulatory and enforcement of human rights in the Indonesia. Tulisan ini terfokus mengkaji pemikiran Ibnu âsyûr tentang maqâṣid al-syarî’ah. Sebagai pemikir islam kontemporer ibnu âsyûr berupaya merumuskan maqâṣid al-syarî’ah menjadi disiplin ilmu yang mandiri dan pertimbangan utama dalam pegistinbathan hukum islam.Konsep independensi maqâṣid al-syarî’ah sebelumnya memang sudah digagas oleh al-syâthibî, namun Ibnu ‘âsyûr memperkokoh dan mempertegas kembali urgensi maqâṣid al-syarî’ah sebagai suatu disiplin ilmu.Menurutnya, ada empat unsur yang paling mendasar dalam pondasi bangunan maqâṣid al-syarî’ah, yaitu al-fithrah, al-musâwah, al-samâhah dan al-hurriyah.Keempat unsur ini mesti mendapat perhatian dan pertimbangan dalam proses pergumulan teks dan konteks realitas kekinian untuk melahirkan diktum-diktum hukum yang berkemashlahatan. Bagi ibnu ‘âsyûr, secara umum berdasarkan pengkajian atas dalil-dalil al-qur’an dan kasus-kasus parsial menunjukkanbahwa tujuan pensyari’atan hukum islam adalah memelihara sistem/tatanan kehidupan umat manusia dan kelestarian kemashlahatan itu dengan cara menjaga kemashlahatan manusia itu sendiri yang meliputi mashlahah akal, perbuatan dan alam dimana ia hidup. Dengan demikian maka bisa dikatakan kaidah umum dalam syari’at islam adalah untuk mewujudkanmashlahah dan menolak mafsadah.

scholarly journals An introduction to the theological politico-ethical thinking of Koos Vorster

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Van Wyk ◽  
Nico Vorster
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Deontological Ethics ◽  
Ethical Thinking

Koos Vorster had a productive career as theologian and published on a wide variety of subjects. However, he will especially be remembered for his contribution to political and social ethics. This article discussed his theological politico-ethical thinking. Firstly, this article examined his epistemology, with special reference to his revelational-historical approach, his hermeneutics, preference of deontological ethics and his renouncement of ethical absolutism, which characterises fundamentalist approaches to ethics. Secondly, it examined his views on Apartheid and the ‘struggle’ in the 1970s and 1980s. Vorster renounced Apartheid and pleaded for non-violent change brought about by an evangelical change of hearts and attitude that had to be accompanied with real efforts to address poverty and unjust structures. Finally, the article discussed his views on human dignity, human rights and relations between the state and religion, as well as his views on society and economics.‘n Inleiding tot die teologiese, politieke en etiese denke van Koos Vorster. Koos Vorster het ‘n besonderse produktiewe en vrugbare akademiese loopbaan gehad en oor ‘n verskeidenheid van onderwerpe gepubliseer. Hy sal egter veral onthou word vir sy bydrae tot politieke en sosiale etiek. Hierdie artikel ondersoek die teologies-polities etiese denke van Koos Vorster. Die  eerste  deel  bespreek  sy  epistemologiese  uitgangspunte,  waaronder  sy  omvattende openbarings-historiese benadering, sy hermeneutiek, voorliefde vir ‘n deontologiese etiek, en sy afwysing van etiese absolutisme soos veral vergestalt in fundamentalistiese benaderings tot die etiek. Die tweede deel bespreek sy houding teenoor Apartheid en die ‘struggle’ in die 1970s en 1980s. Vorster het die vergrype van Apartheid geïdentifiseer en aangespreek, maar terselfdertyd geweldadige verset verwerp, en ‘n evangeliese verandering van gesindhede bepleit wat gepaard gaan met die opheffing van onderdrukte gemeenskappe en ontbinding van onregverdige strukture. Die laaste deel van die artikel bespreek Vorster se sienings oor menswaardigheid, menseregte, die verhouding tussen kerk en godsdiens, asook sy siening oor die samelewing en die ekonomie.

scholarly journals The Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court regarding assisted suicide: a template for pluralistic states?

2021 ◽  
pp. medethics-2021-107233
Author(s):  
Urban Wiesing
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
The State ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Federal Constitutional ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
German Federal Constitutional Court ◽  
German Federal Constitutional

The article presents the judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court from 26 February 2020 on assisted suicide. The statements regarding human dignity, human rights and the relationship between citizens and the state are examined. Furthermore, the consequences resulting from this interpretation of human dignity for states that are pluralistic and based on human rights will be laid out. The court’s judgment limits the power of parliaments and poses a challenge to many laws in states that see themselves as pluralistic, human rights-based states.

scholarly journals THE FORMAL AND SUBSTANTIVE CORE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-59
Author(s):  
Stephan Kirste
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Subjective Rights ◽  
Object Status

Human dignity is the basis of human rights. From the four dimensions of dignity - the status subjectionis, the status negativus, the status positivus and the status activus - both form and content of human rights can be justified. The form as subjective rights is necessary so that man is treated as a subject and not as a mere object (status subjectionis). In terms of content, human rights protect not only freedom from the state (status negativus), freedom through the state (status positivus), but also the freedom of the individual to participate in the establishment of public authorities (status activus). In addition: human dignity itself is a human right.

scholarly journals Understanding Human Dignity

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Shared Meaning ◽  
Judicial Decision Making ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
The Relationship

The concept of human dignity has become central to political philosophy and legal discourse on human rights, but it remains enigmatic. Understanding Human Dignity is a book of original essays by a multi-disciplinary group of historians, legal academics, judges, political scientists, theologians, and philosophers, which aims to debate a broad range of current approaches to how to understand the concept. Some of the main issues considered include fundamental theoretical questions: Is there a minimum core to the meaning of human dignity? Is a person’s human dignity to be assessed subjectively from his or her point of view, or ‘objectively’? Can human dignity be understood in purely secular terms? Can there be a shared meaning of human dignity where there is religious and ideological pluralism? What ontological claims are implied by appeals to human dignity? Other questions are more directed at the implications of dignity for relations between individuals, and between individuals and the state: What are the implications of human dignity for the ways in which we should behave towards each other? What are its implications for the ways in which the state should treat those who fall under its authority? An important set of questions posed considers specifically the relationship between human dignity, human rights, and other values: Is human dignity more appropriately seen as attaching to some human rights rather than others? What is the relationship between human dignity and other values and principles connected with rights, such as autonomy, freedom, equality, social solidarity, and identity? What is the weight and status of human dignity? Does human dignity have a status superior to that of other values? Is it absolute, or can it be balanced against other values? Does human dignity essentially serve community or individual goals? Can it also serve moralistic and paternalistic goals? Is human dignity necessarily an emancipatory idea? Is it rights-supporting or rights-constraining? Also considered is how, if at all, the concept of human dignity helps us to deal with claims made in relation to several issues that are among the most divisive current political and social questions. Does dignity apply only to sentient humans, or can it apply to animals, dead humans, and human foetuses? What is the relation between the idea of dignity and what appears to be voluntary self-degradation (for example, in some instances of prostitution and pornography)? How far, if at all, can a person waive his or her human dignity? Does human dignity determine the boundaries of religious pluralism? A further set of questions considered are more institutional, or related to the relationship between disciplines: How appropriate is the use of the concept of human dignity for judicial decision-making? What is the role of courts and legal authorities in developing and elaborating the concept of human dignity? What role, if any, should human dignity play in adjudicating conflicts of human rights, philosophical and legal?

PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP PROFESI KEPOLISIAN DALAM MENJALANKAN TUGAS POKOK DAN FUNGSI PENYELESAIAN TINDAK PIDANA DI KEPOLISIAN DAERAH (POLDA) PROPINSI KEPULAUAN BANGKA BELITUNG

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinta Jayanti Apriana
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Subjects

Legal protection is very effort to shelther the human dignity and recognize of human rights in the legal field. A country has the responsibility to socialize new regulations to its society so that they will be aware of the law and also of their rights protected by the state. If society’s legal awareness is growing well, then legal protection in this country will run properly. The development of law enforcement is the beginning of the Police Force. It offers a very interesting history in the development of humanity. Despite the progress that goes slowly, the efforrt is gradually continued in line with the development of human civilization. Thus the ask of the Police is to perforn law enforcement, and the authority of its duty is restricted under the law. In reality, the Police offers in Indonesia are not Legal subjects who never made mistake; hence the author deems that the legal rights and obligations of these officers should be similar as the community at large.

scholarly journals HAK ASASI MANUSIA PERSPEKTIF AGAMA KRISTEN

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-125
Author(s):  
Jamiliya Susantin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
State Law ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Democratic Rights

Human rights is a set of rights attached to the nature and existence of human beings as God's omnipresent beings and is a gift that must be respected, upheld and protected by the state law, government, and every other person for the honor and protection of human dignity and prestige. Human rights, especially Christians have been protected by the 1945 Constitution and have several rights that can guarantee the welfare of those rights: Freedom rights, democratic rights, and social rights that are also contained in the Constitution 1945 

scholarly journals Human dignity in the light of the Constitution, human rights and bioethics

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo André Stein Messetti ◽  
Dalmo De Abreu Dallari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The State ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

Introduction: Human dignity, as coined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR / 1948), is an expression social solidarity, which should cement the relations between people. Human dignity is the foundation of all rights, such as freedom, equality, justice and peace in the world, and in Brazil, human dignity was deemed a fundamental pillar of the country’s post-1988 constitutional order. Objective: This article seeks to a deeper investigation about the social nature of human dignity and its definition over time.     Methods: This is an exploratory research meant to unpack the concepts of "human dignity", "bioethics", "human rights" and "constitution". After describing the conceptual evolution of human dignity and the facts relevant to its conceptual formation in world history - as a normative standard and a legal rule -, we address the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR/1948), the Declaration of Helsinki (DH/1964), the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (UDBHR/2005), and the definition adopted in the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil (CFRB/1988). The study was carried out without temporal limitation, and included a review of referenced books, legal doctrines, as well as articles and books in the SciELO database. Results and discussion: The findings ratify that human dignity is the foundation of all rights, including those of freedom, equality, justice and peace in the world, and must also guide the rights and duties of social regulation. Human dignity has changed from a criterion of power attributed to the social position of individuals to a value of the right to freedom, which now goes beyond the right of freedom and is the basis of modern constitutional democracy, which makes possible the realization of solidarity, as well as the duty and purpose of the state and the community. The will of the subject, of society, of the science and of the state, as well as the rules of domination and regulation, must have a limit on human dignity, and human dignity is not just fundamental right, in the sense of the Constitution, and must prevail over the exclusive will of science, the State and society. Therefore, in the making of power decisions and in realization of possible innovations of science involving human beings, human dignity demands the explicit consideration of respect and promotion of it. Conclusion: Human dignity is enshrined in Brazilian constitutional law, as well as in bioethics and in human rights, and it constitutes all the fundamental rights of the human person. It is not merely a rule of autonomy and liberty, and it is an obligatory and non-derogable precept in the making of power decisions, a true main foundation of constitutional democracies.  

The Underlying Principles of Freedom of Religion or Belief—Towards a Holistic Conceptualization

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bielefeldt Heiner, Prof ◽  
Ghanea Nazila, Dr ◽  
Wiener Michael, Dr
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The State ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The Right

This chapter discusses the underlying principles of freedom of religion or belief. While having its specific features as well as specific areas of application, the right to freedom of religion or belief epitomizes the very same principles which define the human rights approach in general: respect for human dignity, normative universalism, freedom, and equality. Highlighting these principles, which freedom of religion or belief shares with other human rights, is important against the background of a growing perception (or rather: misperception) that freedom of religion or belief allegedly stands in an uneasy relationship to other human rights, in particular freedom of expression or claims of gender emancipation. This chapter presents systematic arguments which underline a holistic understanding of freedom of religion or belief as an indispensable part of human rights in general. In order for the State to fulfil its task as formal guarantor of everyone’s right to freedom of religion or belief without discrimination, an inclusive secular constitution may provide the most suitable conditions.

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