In its judgment, the court said Perinçek's statements related to an issue of "public interest and did not amount to a call for hatred or intolerance … and could not be regarded as affecting the dignity of the members of the Armenian community to the point of requiring a criminal law response".
"This statement can be regarded as affecting the dignity of this group as a whole.
Stigma on the other hand affects the dignity of those infected by portraying them as persons with loose morals [ 40- 42].
Whereas, verbal abuse is any oral communication that negatively affects the dignity of somebody such as yelling, directing insult, nudging, or humiliating based on age, sex, race, colour, disability, language, religion, and economic or social status.
Any conduct based on age, disability, HIV status, domestic circumstances, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, race, colour, language, religion, political, trade union or other opinion or belief, national or social origin, association with a minority, property, birth or other status that is unreciprocated or unwanted and that affects the dignity of men and women at work.
"We need to make sure we are shielding humanitarian action from politicisation because we have an obligation to deliver that sense of humanity and rebuild the dignity of individuals affected by those crises".
"The US Government welcomes this opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to support communities affected by emergencies with safe drinking water and sanitation facilities as well as restore the dignity of women and girls affected by gender-based violence," said U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Ambassador Charles Twining.
It affects how one understands whether punishment respects the dignity of the punished wrongdoer.
It has also been suggested that reproductive cloning may adversely impact "communal dignity" or "the dignity of humankind".
