scholarly journals URBAN VIOLENCE, PRISON CONDITIONS AND HUMAN DIGNITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Barcellos
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Brazilian Society

The paper deals with a situation that perhaps represents one of the most radical and profound challenges to the claim that contemporaneous western societies – and Brazilian society in particular – share the values concerning equality and essential or ontological dignity of mankind. It is an attempt to investigate how Brazilian society, immersed in a context of fear as a result of urban violence, deals with its prison population. This paper is divided into three main parts. Part one deals with a situation of fact: traditional, ongoing, generalized, serious and practically institutionalized violation of the fundamental rights of prison inmates in Brazil. This situation of fact easily leads one to conclude that inmates in Brazil are not treated like human beings (and are probably not even considered as human beings). Part two is an attempt to examine some possible explanations of why this situation exists. In part three, the paper tries to suggest that there is a connection between how prisoners are treated and the current level of urban violence in Brazil as a contributing factor. Considering that neither the principle of human dignity nor the actions of the legal system have been able to change the scenario that has built up in recent decades, perhaps it would be useful to suggest that inhumane treatment of inmates is not just a problem restricted to prisons: society as a whole receives the effects of this policy in the form of more violence. 

scholarly journals URBAN VIOLENCE, PRISON CONDITIONS AND HUMAN DIGNITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Barcellos
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Brazilian Society

The paper deals with a situation that perhaps represents one of the most radical and profound challenges to the claim that contemporaneous western societies – and Brazilian society in particular – share the values concerning equality and essential or ontological dignity of mankind. It is an attempt to investigate how Brazilian society, immersed in a context of fear as a result of urban violence, deals with its prison population. This paper is divided into three main parts. Part one deals with a situation of fact: traditional, ongoing, generalized, serious and practically institutionalized violation of the fundamental rights of prison inmates in Brazil. This situation of fact easily leads one to conclude that inmates in Brazil are not treated like human beings (and are probably not even considered as human beings). Part two is an attempt to examine some possible explanations of why this situation exists. In part three, the paper tries to suggest that there is a connection between how prisoners are treated and the current level of urban violence in Brazil as a contributing factor. Considering that neither the principle of human dignity nor the actions of the legal system have been able to change the scenario that has built up in recent decades, perhaps it would be useful to suggest that inhumane treatment of inmates is not just a problem restricted to prisons: society as a whole receives the effects of this policy in the form of more violence. 

scholarly journals URBAN VIOLENCE, PRISON CONDITIONS AND HUMAN DIGNITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Barcellos
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Brazilian Society

The paper deals with a situation that perhaps represents one of the most radical and profound challenges to the claim that contemporaneous western societies – and Brazilian society in particular – share the values concerning equality and essential or ontological dignity of mankind. It is an attempt to investigate how Brazilian society, immersed in a context of fear as a result of urban violence, deals with its prison population. This paper is divided into three main parts. Part one deals with a situation of fact: traditional, ongoing, generalized, serious and practically institutionalized violation of the fundamental rights of prison inmates in Brazil. This situation of fact easily leads one to conclude that inmates in Brazil are not treated like human beings (and are probably not even considered as human beings). Part two is an attempt to examine some possible explanations of why this situation exists. In part three, the paper tries to suggest that there is a connection between how prisoners are treated and the current level of urban violence in Brazil as a contributing factor. Considering that neither the principle of human dignity nor the actions of the legal system have been able to change the scenario that has built up in recent decades, perhaps it would be useful to suggest that inhumane treatment of inmates is not just a problem restricted to prisons: society as a whole receives the effects of this policy in the form of more violence. 

scholarly journals URBAN VIOLENCE, PRISON CONDITIONS AND HUMAN DIGNITY

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Barcellos
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Brazilian Society

The paper deals with a situation that perhaps represents one of the most radical and profound challenges to the claim that contemporaneous western societies – and Brazilian society in particular – share the values concerning equality and essential or ontological dignity of mankind. It is an attempt to investigate how Brazilian society, immersed in a context of fear as a result of urban violence, deals with its prison population. This paper is divided into three main parts. Part one deals with a situation of fact: traditional, ongoing, generalized, serious and practically institutionalized violation of the fundamental rights of prison inmates in Brazil. This situation of fact easily leads one to conclude that inmates in Brazil are not treated like human beings (and are probably not even considered as human beings). Part two is an attempt to examine some possible explanations of why this situation exists. In part three, the paper tries to suggest that there is a connection between how prisoners are treated and the current level of urban violence in Brazil as a contributing factor. Considering that neither the principle of human dignity nor the actions of the legal system have been able to change the scenario that has built up in recent decades, perhaps it would be useful to suggest that inhumane treatment of inmates is not just a problem restricted to prisons: society as a whole receives the effects of this policy in the form of more violence. 

Hungarian Constitutional Court: The Limits of EU Law in the Hungarian Legal System

ICL Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
Tímea Drinóczi
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Fundamental Law

Abstract The Constitutional Court declared in its ruling 22/2016 (XII 5) that by exercising its competences, it can examine whether the joint exercise of competences under Article E) (2) of the Fundamental Law of Hungary infringes human dignity, other fundamental rights, the sovereignty of Hungary, or Hungary’s self-identity based on its historical constitution.

scholarly journals The Phenomenon of Human Rights from the Perspective of Islam and the West

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Abdullah Haqyar
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
The West ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
The Right

The phenomenon of human rights, in its contemporary sense, is not even ancient in Western thought, and it came from the context of a social and political movement in France, and the most important of the fundamental rights that collected under this title is the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to equality, the right to asylum, the right to freedom of expression, the right to freedom of opinion and religion, women's rights, the right to participate in social and political life, and the right to personal property. It is an established principle that the first condition for the exercise of these rights is their incompatibility with the rights of other human beings and their human rights. The philosophical basis of human rights in the West consists of three important principles: the principle of human dignity, equality and justice. But the difference between human rights in the West and Islam is that "God" is at the center of the Islamic worldview, while in the Western world the "man" is the central one, and man is the measure of all rights. A clearer interpretation of the two types of "God-centered" or "human-centered" ideas in the West is the predominance of human-centeredness and in Islam the predominance of God-centeredness. The philosophical foundations of human rights in Islam are the principle of human dignity, the principle of God-seeking, the principle of human immortality, and the principle of its developmental relation to the set of being.

scholarly journals Human dignity as a new constitutional value of the constitutional system of Republic of Croatia

2016 ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
DUBRAVKO LJUBIC
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Charter Of Fundamental Rights ◽  
Constitutional System ◽  
The Individual

The study presents the human dignity as the basis of every legal order, its ethics and all the other factors that make a legal system just, a condition for the existence of rights in general. Croatian Constitution does not recognize human dignity as the highest value and the basis of design of the basic legal sphere, but, by accepting the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union human dignity is not becoming just the source and means of interpretation of the basic legal sphere, but it is also becoming the basis for establishing relations between the individual and the state and individuals themselves

scholarly journals O Desenvolvimento dos Direitos da Personalidade, sua Aplicação às Relações de Trabalho e o Exercício da Autonomia Privada

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fábio Siebeneichler de Andrade ◽  
Andressa Da Cunha Gudde
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Dialectical Method ◽  
Personality Rights ◽  
Private Autonomy

Sumário: Introdução. 1. A Tutela da Personalidade como Direito Fundamental. Conceito e Evolução no Ordenamento Jurídico Pátrio. 2. As Características dos Direitos da Personalidade no Código Civil de 2002. 3. Direitos da Personalidade Aplicados às Relações de Trabalho. Proteção e Indisponibilidade. Autonomia Privada e Ponderação de Valores nas Relações de Trabalho. Casuística. Considerações Finais. Referências. Resumo: A longa trajetória percorrida pelo Direito até o reconhecimento dos direitos da personalidade e sua elevação ao status de direitos fundamentais ajudam a compreender as matizes e os contornos do seu conjunto de valores. No ordenamento jurídico pátrio, os direitos da personalidade caracterizam-se pela indisponibilidade e pelo seu caráter absoluto, ainda que temperados pela necessária convivência com o direito fundamental à liberdade, do que a autonomia privada é uma de suas mais conhecidas facetas. É a partir de tal reconhecimento, e utilizando-se do método dedutivo e dialético, que o presente artigo busca explorar a aplicação dos direitos da personalidade ao contexto das relações de trabalho, no qual os mesmos adquirem contornos próprios, haja vista ser o Direito do Trabalho, no Brasil, fortemente calcado no princípio da proteção e da irrenunciabilidade,em especial. Todavia, por se tratarem os direitos da personalidade e do trabalho de direitos fundamentais, é natural que os mesmos estejam submetidos ao exercício de ponderação, sempre que entrarem em conflito com outros direitos de igual estatura constitucional-fundamental, conforme o caso concreto. É assim que a casuística fornece valiosos exemplos de situações em que os direitos da personalidade e do trabalho cedem espaço a outros direitos fundamentais, como a propriedade, sendo a autonomia privada e o respeito ao núcleo essencial da dignidade da pessoa humana, elementos imprescindíveis à sua legitimação.    Palavras-chave: Direitos da personalidade; Autonomia Privada; Direitos fundamentais; Ponderação; Relações de Trabalho. Abstract: The long journey travelled by the Law to the personality rights recognition and its elevation to fundamental rights status helps to understand the hues and contours of its set of values. In Brazilian legal system, the personality rights are characterized by its unavailability and absoluteness, albeit tempered by the necessary interaction with the fundamental right to freedom, of which private autonomy is one of its best-known facets. It is from this recognition, and using deductive and dialectical method, that this article aims to explore the application of personality rights to the context of labor relations, in which they acquire proper contours, having in mind that, in Brazil, the Labor Law is heavily based on the principle of protection and unavailability, specially. Nonetheless, considering that personality and labor rights are fundamental rights, it is natural that both are subjected to balancing test every time they collide with other fundamental-constitutional rights of same status, as the case. This is how casuistry gives us great examples of situations where personality and labor rights give way to other fundamental rights, such as propriety right, being the private autonomy and the respect to the essential core of the human dignity indispensable constituents to its legitimation.   Keywords: Personality Rights; Private Autonomy; Fundamental Rights; Balancing; Labor Relations.

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.  

scholarly journals A BUSCA PELA REALIZAÇÃO DA DIGNIDADE DA PESSOA HUMANA NO INSTITUTO DA ADOÇÃO

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Sarah Carolina Colorado Borges ◽  
Ana Augusta Rodrigues Westin Ebaid
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Federal Constitution

The adoption institute has undergone numerous changes over the years, and from the 1988 Federal Constitution onwards, the most important innovations began to take effect. From that moment on, the adoption began to gain a significant new guise to protect the rights of children and adolescents. In the present work, through doctrinal and jurisprudential research, through books and articles, it aims to make an analysis of the history and adoption process, which is a subject that is always very relevant and discussed in society, bringing positive aspects, such as innovations. who shifted the focus from suitors to minors, and broughta greater guarantee to their rights; and negative aspects such as prejudices, late adoption and the slowness of our legal system. The methodology included bibliographic survey. The main focus is to analyze the adoption process based on the principles of human dignity found in our Charter, and the principles that govern the adoption institute, and how it has been applied in the daily lives of children and adolescents , to ensure their fundamental rights and family life.

scholarly journals Liberdade de expressão e ponderação de valores: tutela da dignidade da pessoa humana versus hate speech

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaianny Saionara Macena de Araújo ◽  
Magno Gurgel Saraiva ◽  
Adriano Marteleto Godinho
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Social

RESUMOEste trabalho tem como objetivo desenvolver a discussão sobre a liberdade de expressão e seu conflito com o discurso de ódio no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro. Deste modo, expõe-se o entendimento e a dimensão do discurso de ódio, assim como sua resolução diante de casos concretos e a reparação civil pelos danos oriundos. Neste contexto, a Ciência Jurídica não pode ser indiferente ao conteúdo dessas normas, tampouco à sua capacidade de adequação aos problemas sociais. O exercício das liberdades civis, sob este prisma, tem muito a ser enriquecido, à medida que se expande a compreensão – antes eminentemente limitada à esfera normativa privada – e passa a tratar da proteção e garantia de direitos com uma preocupação finalística que deve cuidar evidentemente dos direitos humanos, de sua validade fundada tanto na lei, quanto na Constituição, e de sua real eficácia em favor da dignidade humana.PALAVRAS-CHAVEDireitos Humanos. Direitos Fundamentais. Discurso de ódio. Dignidade da pessoa humana. Liberdade de expressão. ABSTRACTThis paper aims to develop the discussion about freedom of expression and hate speech in the Brazilian legal system. Thus, it shows the concept and dimension of hate speech, as well as the resolution in specific cases and the civil liability for damages. In this sense, Law can’t be indifferent to the content of these rules, neither to its adequation capacity towards the social problems. The exercise of civil liberties, based on this conception, has a lot to be enriched, as far as it expands the understanding – previously limited eminently to the private normative sphere – and moves on to the protection and guarantee of rights with a concern that obviously has to take care of human rights, as well as its real effectiveness in favor of human dignity.KEYWORDSHuman rights. Fundamental rights. Hate speech. Human dignity. Freedom of speech.

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