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Antônio Augusto and Cançado Trindade 2

In the Mucic et alii case (Judgment of 20.02.2001), the ad hoc International Criminal Tibunal for the Former Yugoslavia [ICTFY] (Appeals Chamber) pondered that both International Humanitarian Law and the International Law of Human Rights take as a “starting point” their common concern to safeguard human dignity, which forms the basis of their minimum standards of humanity.

In the Mucic et alii case (Judgment of 20.02.2001), the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [ICTFY] (Appeals Chamber) pondered that both International Humanitarian Law and the International Law of Human Rights take as a “starting point” their common concern to safeguard human dignity, which forms the basis of their minimum standards of humanity.

from: Humankind as a subject of International Law,
In: International Law for Humankind, p. 279
Authors: Antônio Augusto and Cançado Trindade

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Book cover: Conflict - Human Needs Theory

The need for self-esteem “is perhaps the most pervasive of any of the needs in humans”

Paul Sites
from: “Needs as analogues of emotions” in J Burton (ed.) 1990, Conflict: human needs theory,
St. Martin’s Press, New York.

(found in Hilarie Roseman's book "Generating Forgiveness", Dignity Press 2014)

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