Human Dignity – A Right or a Principle of Human Rights?
Human Dignity – A Right or a Principle of Human Rights?

Summary/Abstract: Human dignity was unequivocally the underlying principle of the most important documents adopted internationally in the field of human rights after World War II. Nevertheless, a series of confusions have arisen with regard to the concept of human dignity and the definition which should be given to this concept especially that, at national level, constitutions of states qualify human dignity as being a right or a principle. This article is intended to offer a short description regarding the evolution of the content of the human dignity concept and the important points in time which marked its evolution, especially in the light of international and regional legal instruments adopted in the field of human rights, and to present several aspects referring to the valences of the human dignity concept and how it is perceived and understood today and the important role it plays in granting and protecting the rights that are inherent to the human being.

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