Ensuring Human Rights For Everyone

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Global Dignity Forum believes that the idea of “human dignity” is the foundation of human rights. Dignity expresses the idea that every human being has worth or value and should be treated with respect without distinction or discrimination.

 

The importance of human dignity has been recognised by national, regional and international human rights laws and standards. For example, Article 15 (1) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana states, “The dignity of all persons shall be inviolable.” People live in dignity if their fundamental human rights and freedoms are respected, protected and fulfilled. Therefore, States and governments that respect human rights are said to be working to achieve human dignity.

Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights provides that “Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being and to the recognition of his legal status. All forms of exploitation and degradation of man, particularly slavery, slave trade, torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment and treatment shall be prohibited.”

 

The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, also recognises the importance of human dignity. It states in Article 1, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”

 

Ensuring human rights for everyone offers a way of adjusting the unequal power relations that separate people from the things that help sustain and improve their lives. These include skills and knowledge as well as goods and material resources. At Global Dignity Forum, we believe that the more these power relations become balanced, the more people live in dignity and escape from poverty.

 

Global Dignity Forum’s work to promote and protect human dignity and rights dwells a lot more on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Civil and Political Rights. However, it is critically important to emphasise that human rights and freedoms are interrelated and interdependent – they relate to each other, support each other and depend on each other.


Join the Global Dignity Forum Team today to help promote human dignity and rights for effective nation-building and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

You can contact us via email at globaldignityforum@gmail.com.

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Global Dignity Forum

P. O. Box KN 6307

Accra, Ghana

West Africa

Email: globaldignityforum@gmail.com

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