Dignity and Humiliation: Identity Formation among Syrian Refugees
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Human dignity, humiliation, and torture.
Modern human rights instruments ground human rights in the concept of human dignity, without providing an underlying theory of human dignity. This paper examines the central importance of human dignity, understood as not humiliating people, in traditional Jewish ethics. It employs this conception of human dignity to examine and criticize U.S. use of humiliation tactics and torture in the interr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Middle East Law and Governance
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1876-3367,1876-3375
DOI: 10.1163/18763375-00903006