scholarly journals Verdighet i det pluralistiske klasserommet

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Geir Winje
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Family Background ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Value System ◽  
Normative Authority ◽  
Norwegian School ◽  
First Case ◽  
As If ◽  
Religious Differences

In this essay I will first present two cases from Norwegian school, where someone’s dignity may have been violated because of religious differences. I also comment on the use of words and concepts like dignity, human rights and equality of status, in curriculums and text books. After these introductory thoughts, I connect to Peter Schaber, who points out that “the violation of dignity consists in treating others as if they had no normative authority over themselves and over how they are treated” (2014, p. 159f), but also Jeremy Waldron and others who see dignity in the light of equality. The first case is a documentary produced by NRK (Norwegian Public Broadcasting Corporation) and made accessible for schools. Here we meet two Norwegian women with Vietnamese family background trying to explain their understanding of women’s karma, and a sceptic journalist who reacts in a way that may be understood as violating their dignity. The second case is a teacher student’s report from a discussion with a school teacher about how pupils belonging to Jehovah’s witnesses should be treated when they do not participate in e.g. birthday celebrations. Both cases show that violation of dignity actually is going on in Norwegian schools, and – more surprising – that it is motivated and legalized by the violator’s own value system. I therefore conclude the essay with a distinction between two ways of acting in accordance with modern humanist values: a deontological or “listening humanism” versus a teleological or “preaching humanism”.

Bringing People Down

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-466
Author(s):  
John Vorhaus
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Status ◽  
Relational Concept ◽  
Degrading Treatment ◽  
As If

Under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, degrading treatment and punishment is absolutely prohibited. This paper examines the nature of and wrong inherent in treatment and punishment of this kind. Cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) as amounting to degrading treatment and punishment under Article 3 include instances of interrogation, conditions of confinement, corporal punishment, strip searches, and a failure to provide adequate health care. The Court acknowledges the degradation inherent in imprisonment generally, and does not consider this to be in violation of Article 3, but it also identifies a threshold at which degradation is so severe as to render impermissible punishments that cross this threshold. I offer an account of the Court’s conception of impermissible degradation as a symbolic dignitary harm. The victims are treated as inferior, as if they do not possess the status owed to human beings, neither treated with dignity nor given the respect owed to dignity. Degradation is a relational concept: the victim is brought down in the eyes of others following treatment motivated by the intention to degrade, or treatment which has a degrading effect. This, so I will argue, is the best account of the concept of degradation as deployed by the Court when determining punishments as in violation of Article 3.

scholarly journals U-22 Comparison of Common Human Rights with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Context of the Farewell Sermon

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-350
Author(s):  
Abdul Razaq ◽  
Muhammad Usman Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Member States ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations Charter ◽  
United Nation ◽  
As If

The last Hajj performed by the Messenger of Allah is called the Farewell Hajj in two respects. One is that you did the last Hajj and also with reference to the fact that the Holy Prophet himself said in this sermon: O people! By God, I don't know if I will be able to meet you in this place after today. You specifically said, "Ask me questions, learn and ask what you have to ask." I may not be able to meet you like this later this year.It was as if the Holy Prophet himself was saying goodbye. On this occasion, this Hajj is called the Farewell Hajj.The United Nation General Assembly, approved the: "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" on Dec. 1948. Following this historic achievement, the Assembly urged all its member states to make the announcement public and participate in its dissemination. The purpose of this manifesto was to protect basic human rights throughout the world and to find solutions to various problems facing nations. The rights granted to man under the United Nations Charter, established in the twentieth century, were granted to him by Islam fourteen hundred years ago.The 30 articles of the UN Charter define basic human rights in various ways. These provisions relate to social, religious and human rights. When we compare the Farewell Sermon of the Holy Prophet with this Manifesto, where many similarities come to the fore, the differences are also noticeable.

scholarly journals Reviewer acknowledgements

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-107
Author(s):  
Editorial Team
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Norwegian School ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Eastern Norway

The editors would like to thank the following colleagues for the time and careful attention given to manuscripts they reviewed for Volume 1 of HRER. Rebecca ADAMIUniversity of Stockholm, Sweden Paul BRACEYUniversity of Northampton, UK Kjersti BRATHAGENUniversity of South-Eastern Norway, Norway Cecilia DECARADanish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark Judith DUNKERLY-BEANOld Dominion University, USA Viola B. GEORGIUniversity of Hildesheim, Germany Carole HAHNEmory University, USA Brynja HALLDÓRSDÓTTIRUniversity of Iceland, Iceland Lisa HARTLEY Curtin University, Australia Lee JEROME Middlesex University, UK Claudia LENZ Norwegian School of Theology, Norway Hadi Strømmon LILE Østfold University College, Norway Anja MIHR Center on Governance though Human Rights, Germany Virginia MORROWUniversity of Oxford, UK Thomas NYGREN Uppsala University, Sweden Barbara OOMEN Roosevelt University College, The Netherlands Anatoli RAPOPORT Purdue University, USA Farzana SHAIN Keele University, UK Hugh STARKEY University College London, UK Sharon STEIN University of British Columbia, Canada

Lynch Syndrome and Long QT Syndrome – As If One Syndrome is Not Already Enough

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Ju Yee Lim ◽  
Barry Newell ◽  
Vivienne A Ezzat ◽  
Jens Samol ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Lynch Syndrome ◽  
Long Qt Syndrome ◽  
Long Qt ◽  
Colon Cancers ◽  
First Case ◽  
Qt Syndrome ◽  
As If

A 51-year-old patient was treated with chemotherapy for two synchronous colon cancers and was diagnosed with Lynch syndrome. The patient also suffered a cardiac arrest and was also diagnosed with a long QT syndrome (LQTS) subsequently. This is the first case of a co-existence of Lynch syndrome and LQTS.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights

1982 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Buergenthal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
First Case ◽  
Rules Of Procedure

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has drafted its Statute, adopted its Rules of Procedure, negotiated its headquarters agreement, and so far dealt with its first case. It is timely, therefore, to describe the Court’s institutional framework and to analyze its jurisdiction. A more extensive study, of course, will have to await its developing case law.

scholarly journals MUSEUM DIVERSITY THROUGH THE LENS OF THE KYOTO DEFINITION

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
François Mairesse
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Value System

The author analyses the logic underlying the ICOM museum definition process and the sense of continuity among the different definitions, since its creation in 1946. The new definition proposed in Kyoto in 2019 (during the ICOM General Conference, 1–7 September) created a risk of breaking within this continuity and the museum community. The definition process is here put in parallel with the notion of mission statement, associated with strategic management, and the value system linked to a resolutely activist vision of the museum, integrating such topics as gender, postcolonialism, sustainable development or human rights.

Thomas Neville George, 13 May 1904 - 18 June 1980

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 198-217
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Family Background ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Moral Belief ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Socialist Politics

Thomas Neville George, later renowned as a Carboniferous stratigrapher and palaeontologist and also as a geomorphologist, was born in Morriston, Swansea, on 13 May 1904, being the elder of two children and the only son of Thomas Rupert George (1873-1933) and Elizabeth George (née Evans, 1875-1937). The family background on both sides was dominated by school teaching driven by a deep-seated moral belief in the ability of education to improve and enrich the lives of otherwise impoverished folk. His father, Thomas Rupert George, had attended the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and originally came from Port Eynon. He became a school teacher and eventually headmaster in a Swansea school but much of his time was given to Socialist politics, particularly in organizing the local Trades and Labour Council, of which he was an honorary secretary. Neville’s mother, Elizabeth, was a school teacher from Swansea Training College and for a short time taught her son at his first primary school. She came from a chapel-going family, whereas his father did not, and Neville attended chapel sporadically until he was eight but not thereafter.

Introductory Note

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto F. Caldas
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
American System ◽  
Internal Armed Conflict ◽  
First Case ◽  
Introductory Note ◽  
Conservation Of Natural Resources ◽  
Gender Based

During 2015, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued sixteen judgments in contentious cases and two interpretations of previous judgments that covered a wide variety of salient issues for the Inter-American System of Human Rights. The first case selected for this edition of the Yearbook deals with the obligations of states dealing with terrorist threats in the midst of internal armed conflict. The other three cases selected deal with the obligations of states in peacetime: specifically, the obligation to supervise private health providers, particularly when they carry out public functions, the obligation to protect the lives and integrity of women against gender-based violence, and the obligation to guarantee the collective property rights of indigenous peoples while also ensuring the conservation of natural resources. These cases are consistent with the Inter-American Court’s vast jurisprudence regarding states’ duty to guarantee the rights of persons who are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses.

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