The increasing digitalization of society has led to new legal issues related to the protection of personal integrity, particularly the protection of personal data. Digitalization allows for greater possibilities for private individuals to access the personal data of others. As the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not applicable on treatment of personal data by individuals, there is a risk of a loophole forming allowing breaches of personal integrity committed by individuals.                        This paper clarifies the meaning of the term ‘personal integrity’ in a digital context, focusing on how digital integrity is separate from physical integrity, and which key elements constitute personal integrity, be it physical or digital. The paper also discusses how the term previously has been used in legal documents, notably in the UDHR, the EU Charter (focus on dignity) and Swedish legislation (focus on the personal sphere). Furthermore, the paper examines whether the protection of personal integrity can motivate an infringement of the right to personal autonomy of the individual in question.                        The discussion on personal integrity is followed by an analysis of the protection on a physical and digital level respectively in order to clarify whether the different protections can be considered equivalent, and to what extent it would be appropriate for them to be so. This is done taking into account that strengthening protections of personal information would require limiting the individual’s right to autonomy, which in turn infringes upon their dignity.                       The consequences that can arise by an intrusion of the digital integrity can be serious, wherefore one could argue that the protection thereof should be as strong as the protection from intrusions of the individual’s physical integrity. Should the consequences of intrusion of personal integrity be as strong on both the physical and digital level, then the protection of digital integrity may need to be strengthened. This could potentially require further infringements of the individual’s right to autonomy. Such an infringement must therefore always be preceded by an appropriate proportionality assessment, aiming to find a solution minimizing the total infringement on the rights of the individual.

This study analyzes whether the EU's migration agreement with Turkey and negotiations on a agreement with Libya correspond with the requirements that can be imposed on the EU in regards to respect the rights of refugees. The purpose of this thesis is to provide a critical approach of EU's agreements with these two countries, from a legal and moral perspective. The study contains the central protections for refugees and asylum seekers in international law and European Union law. The moral perspective consists of an independent notion defining the respect for human dignity with regarding perceptions of Elena Namli and Seyla Benhabib. This study shows that EU's agreement with Turkey and negotiations on a agreement with Libya means displacing of EU's responsibility to ensure the protection of refugees. From the agreements it may be concluded that EU’s refugee policy prioritizes security issues over respect for human dignity.

This study argues that education law is of paramount importance in order to be a successful teacher in our democracy where human rights of all stakeholders are protected and as such remains the responsibility of government to ensure that all new teachers are trained in the field of education law. This dissertation reports to the significance the participants attach to education law and to their attitudes and their practice in schools. It continues to answer the question whether knowing the legal rules is in fact changing the game on ground level. There are differing perspectives on the exact essence of education law; however, there seems to be consensus in the literature that the fundamental function of education law is to regulate the rights and obligations of the interested parties in order to make the school conducive for teaching and learning. The education law functionally contributes to the creation of harmonizing relationships and ensuring co-operation amongst all stakeholders. Education law therefore creates a clear framework for the professional role of teachers. The law defines the border of the playfield and actions at stake in the education sector. Education law as module in Higher Education programmes deals with issues that pertain directly to the teaching profession. These include inter alia governance, the Bill of Rights, instructions/regulations, limitations, application of legal principles and expectations regarding the teacher as an employee. It deals with legal applications and the legal balancing of human rights in educational practice. As a result, it is assumed that teachers may feel somewhat overwhelmed by the content of an education law module and its associated outcomes. This dissertation will therefore also deal with the ability of teachers to understand and apply the values that underpin the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. Education should lead young citizens towards occupying their place in a democratic society based on human dignity, equality and freedom. The dissertation argues that insufficient knowledge of education law is impacting negatively on a culture of human rights application in our school system which results that the school system is unsuccessful and do not fulfil its obligations in a democracy. This may result in the DoBE being held accountable for not empowering teachers to develop our young citizens to fulfil their place in our democracy. In light of the impact of education law, this dissertation is essentially divided into three sections:  The first section provides an overview of the issues and challenges of teachers who have had no formal exposure to education law;  The second section focuses on the impact on teachers who have studied education law as part of their teaching qualification, and  The third section seeks to offer policy recommendations as remedy, inter alia to include education law as part of all teachers’ training curricula in South Africa. The legal remedies that this dissertation advocates is that Government should take on their legal responsibilities towards its employees without turning a blind eye on the value crisis in our country. Government is accountable to ensure that each teacher is skilled and have the competencies to apply legal principles and human rights to instil a culture of human rights that is conducive for teaching in our school system. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / lk2014 / Education Management and Policy Studies / MEd / unrestricted

Les lois de bioéthique concernent la génétique et incluent l’encadrement des biotechnologies. Le droit devait impérativement intervenir en ce domaine. Cette étude propose de s’intéresser aux rapports qu’entretiennent la dignité et un droit de la génétique émergent. Chaque manipulation génétique est observée sous le prisme de la dignité humaine qui doit être préservée, en tant que principe fondamental. L’objet de l’étude est d’analyser la compatibilité de la science au droit et notamment à ce principe, socle du droit de la bioéthique. Ainsi, ce droit émergent n’autorise les manipulations du génome humain qu’en cas de compatibilité avec la dignité. Toutefois, cette étude tente de démontrer que la dignité est peut-être elle-même instrumentalisée par un droit qui se trouve, finalement, au service de la science. L’idée est d’empêcher un certain scientisme grandissant en dénonçant l’utilisation de la dignité et ce notamment dans la protection de l’humanité et dans le contrôle de la modification de l’espèce humaine. La dignité doit faire rempart à toute forme d’instrumentalisation du vivant humain. Or, un certain nombre de manipulations génétiques sont autorisées, la plupart du temps sous conditions strictes et cumulatives. Le droit français encadre un certain nombre de pratiques génétiques impliquant le génome humain, qu’il soit perçu dans sa dimension collective ou individuelle, dans la limite du respect d’un caractère thérapeutique prouvé ou qui ne risque pas d’entraver la sauvegarde de la dignité de la personne humaine. Enfin, cette étude tend à affirmer que la dignité fait office de curseur des manipulations génétiques. Outil de régulation et de réglementation, elle semble instrumentalisée par le droit de la génétique pour satisfaire les exigences scientistes de la société, sous couvert d’un bénéfice pour l’humanité. / Bioethical laws deal with genetics and biotechnology, fields where legal intervention and oversight is imperative. The current study examines the relationship between human dignity and these nascent laws. Each genetic manipulation is considered through the lens of human dignity, as a fundamental principle which must be conserved. The goal of this study is to analyse scientific accountability in regards to bioethical laws. These emergent laws authorize manipulations of the human genome only insofar as the procedures preserve human dignity. At the same time, this study attempts to demonstrate that dignity may be being used as a tool by legal concepts which find themselves subservient to science. It is thus arguably necessary to forestall a growing scientism by denouncing the appropriation of the concept, especially in regards to protecting humanity and controlling the modification of the human race. Human dignity must act as a safeguard against all forms of unethical utilisation of the human being. Nonetheless, a certain number of genetic manipulations are authorized, typically under strict and cumulative conditions. French laws provide the framework for some practices which implicate the human genome, considered both collectively and individually, for therapies which have already become routine, or which do not hinder the preservation of the patient’s dignity. Ultimately, this study adopts the perspective that the concept of human dignity is a determinant factor in the authorisation or interdiction of genetic manipulation. Implicated in both the organisation and the application of genetic laws, human dignity today appears subservient to these laws, satisfying the demands of a scientist society, under the guise of a benefit to humanity.

La protection s’est orientée vers la prévention des risques dans le sport de performance. L’athlète est inséré dans un fonctionnement dont la conciliation entre les différents intérêts entraîne une confrontation entre les buts, entre intervention de l’État et indépendance des institutions sportives, entre performance et protection, entre rationalisation de l’activité et sa personnification, entre dignité et réification. Sa soumission à cet ordre sportif est une condition à la fois de son activité sportive et de sa protection. Repenser la protection des intérêts du sportif sur le fondement de la dignité humaine, c’est lui offrir le respect de sa personne au regard des nouveaux défis relatifs à la lutte contre le dopage et aux conditions d’exercice décentes de son activité réconciliant, dès lors, la protection des intérêts en concours. Il sera étudié la protection des intérêts du sportif liée, d’une part, à l’environnement juridique de la pratique sportive et,d’autre part, à la personne du sportif. / Protection has been geared towards the prevention of risks in performance sports. Athletes are inserted into a system in which the conciliation of interests leads to a confrontation between goals, between state intervention and independance of sport institutions, between performance and protection, between rationalization of the activity and its personification, between dignity and reification. His or her submission to the sporting order is a condition of both his/her sport and its protection since it allows him/her to practice safe and supervised sports. Rethinking the protection of the interests of the athlete on the basis of human dignity is to offer him/her the respect of his/her person in view of the new challenges in the fight against doping and decent working conditions, reconciling the protection of the competing interests. In this perspective, this thesis examines firstly, the protection of the athletes through the legal environment of sport activities first part, and secondly, the protection through the personality of the athletes second part.

This thesis deals with the life and mission of Mother Teresa. Her approach to people and especially the poor was motivated by love for Christ. She saw Christ in the suffering and dying people. She wanted people to not die alone and therefore founded the Missionaries of Charity order, which in a short time spread throughout the world. Thus, the idea gradually became known in the Church and in the world. Mother Teresa was rewarded and hosted by the powerful of this world, but always returned with love to her poor ones. Besides charity work she was also an ardent advocate of life and peace. Her message is still alive today, and her life, even though it was very plain, permanently left its mark on Christianity. The aim of this work is to present the main theological and anthropological approaches of Mother Teresa based on available texts, and to indicate the impact of this saint on contemporary Christianity.

Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities The thesis deals with the current development of human rights of persons with disabilities from the perspective of constitutional law. The work first maps the historical changes of the legal status of persons with disabilities - from antiquity to the tragic experience of denying human dignity in the first half of the 20th century. Furthermore, the thesis shows the development of the human rights of persons with disabilities in the second half of the 20th century. A key driver of this process is the value of human dignity, which, following the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has become the main starting point for the protection of human rights (not only) persons with disabilities. The changes in the concept of human rights of people with disabilities are related to the shift from the medical to the social concept of disability, on the basis of which the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted in 2006. This convention embodies a new approach to human rights of persons with disabilities, who should no longer be subject only to charity and social security regulations, but above all they should be recognized as they are - as an equal legal subjects and full members of the society. The Czech Republic is a...

Orientador: Patrícia Borba Marchetto / Resumo: A partir da imposição de uma ordem discursiva heteronormativa heterossexual compulsória, que situa aqueles que não se classificam na bipolaridade (homem/mulher) à margem da própria sociedade é que a abordagem de gênero merece destaque. A transexualidade pode ser caracterizada pela condição do indivíduo que não se identifica psíquica e socialmente com o sexo que lhe fora atribuído na certidão de nascimento, essa condição determina ao indivíduo um excessivo desconforto e uma sensação de inadequação social, de não pertencer ao contexto no qual é inserido. Nesse sentido o presente trabalho analisa a partir do referencial teórico de Alexy por meio de uma dogmática em três diferentes níveis (analítico, empírico e normativo), as dificuldades enfrentadas pelas pessoas transexuais em virtude das omissões legais e estatais, tendo em vista que apesar da garantia dos direitos fundamentais na Constituição Federal, especialmente da dignidade humana, isso não tem se demonstrado eficaz na tutela dos direitos dos indivíduos transexuais. Nesse sentido, na esfera do Poder Legislativo inúmeros foram os projetos de lei para tentar regulamentar a identidade de gênero, no entanto, nenhum foi aprovado, mantendo-se assim a inexistência de uma lei de identidade de gênero no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, o que acaba contribuindo ainda mais para a marginalização da pessoa transexual, na medida em que a mantém invisível perante as instituições de direito de seu País. No âmbito do Poder Executivo ocorr... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: From the imposition of a compulsory heterosexual heteronormative discursive order, which places those who do not classify themselves in bipolarity (male/female) on the fringes of society, the gender approach deservesattention. Transsexuality can be characterizedby the condition of the individual who does not psychically and socially identify with the sex assigned to him on the birth certificate. This condition causes the individual excessive discomfort and a sense of social inadequacy, not belonging to the context in which is inserted. In this sense the present work analyzes from the theoretical reference of Alexy through a dogmatic in three different levels (analytical, empirical and normative), the difficulties faced by the transsexual people due to the legal and state omissions, considering that despite the guarantee of fundamental rights in the Federal Constitution, especially human dignity, this has not been effective in safe guarding the rights of transgender individuals. In this sense, in the sphere of the Legislative Power there were numerous bills to try to regulate gender identity, however, none were approved, thus maintaining the absence of a gender identity law in the Brazilian legal system, which ends up further contributing to the marginalization of the transgender person, as it keeps them invisible to the institutions of law in their country. Within the scope of the Government, the institute of the social name was created, which recognizes gender identity, but ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / There is a dearth of literature about post-secondary transition experiences of Black women with dis/abilities (BWD). In this qualitative study, I explore transition experiences of five post-secondary BWD from high school to college in order to privilege her chronicles and narratives as knowledge. In addition, two urban public high school transition coordinators (TC) participated in the study. Three inquiries guided my dissertation: (1) features of educational experiences narrated by BWD, (2) features of transition services provided to students with dis/abilities, including roles of and approaches as described by the TCs, and (3) how BWD narratives may be leveraged to critique and extend transition services as the TCs described them. I engaged in three semi-structured interviews with six of the seven participants (one interview with the seventh). I drew from Disability Studies/Disability Studies in Education (DSE), Critical Race Theory, and Womanist/Black Feminist Theory and their shared tenets of voice and counternarratives and concepts of social construction and falsification of consciousness to analyze the narratives of BWD participants. I drew from the DS/DSE tenet of interlocking systems of oppression, DisCrit tenet three, race and ability, and constructs of Inputs and Outcomes in work on Modeling Transition Education to analyze the TCs’ narratives and in connection to the narratives of the BWD. Across both sets of participants, three themes in the form of Truths emerged; they were terrible and sticky experiences of racial/dis/ability oppression for the BWDs and, imposing of whiteness and normalization within the transition education practices described by the TCs. For the BWD, those terrible and sticky truths took three forms: (a) Pathologization; (b) Disablement; and (c) Exclusion. Another type of truth in the BWD’s narratives, however, was Subverted Truths: (re)defined identities and radical love, (re)placed competence and knowledge, and (revalued sisterhood and community, the ways of pushing back and resisting the Truths and their effects. I discuss implications for BWD post-secondary transition-planning-and-programming theory, research, policy, practice, praxis, and spirituality.

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