It's hard to successfully assert the importance of women's basic human dignity elsewhere – to deal with the numbers who are being raped, having their genitals mutilated or are unable to choose if and who they marry – if there's a socially acceptable side-line of this rumbling along unchecked in pregnancy and birth.
"In absence of the OPRA request this video would not be released to the public out of respect for the family of Jerame Reid, basic human dignity and to protect the constitutional rights of all those involved," Gaimari told the South Jersey Times.
Putting basic human dignity back in to childbirth and reversing the power balance is an approach now being watched and emulated around the world.
In late March, the inmates asked the Supreme Court to hear their cases on the ground that Arkansas's hurried schedule was "an affront" to their "basic human dignity". The Justices are expected to consider the petition on Thursday, four days before the first two executions are slated to take place but the prospects for the Court taking action are not good.
This crisis is an opportunity for Europe to uphold its commitments to the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the 1951 Convention on Refugees and its Protocol; to respect basic human dignity and the principle of 'non refoulement'; to uphold the foundation values of the European Union and the core principles of its Human Rights legislation.
Rather, they are setting a baseline legal standard that all individuals and peoples can invoke to ensure basic human dignity and, quoting the Preamble of the UDHR, to establish the conditions "for freedom, justice and peace in the world" (United Nations 1948).
"This is a democracy, based on freedom, and people have a right to basic human dignity," said John R. Robertson, chief of police in Newark, Calif.
While it's sometimes hard to know anymore who is drawing the privacy lines, let alone where the lines should be, there's always basic human dignity, compassion, and gut instinct to guide a journalist across uncharted terrain.
It seems like every election cycle there emerges some real or potential threat to basic human dignity and common sense.
