Programs seek to achieve outcomes that uphold dignity, self-determination and culture for those exposed to poverty, not just abrupt outcomes indicators of life-span and disease based death rates.
However, others argued that it is also possible that a culture characterised by asymmetry between patients and staff can uphold dignity by safeguarding the patient's need to be dependent and receive help.
My non-extensive research shows that it was once awarded to Dario Fo, who according to the Nobel judges "emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".
But judges should also be mindful that the eyes of the world are on them and that they carry the enormous responsibility of upholding the dignity and integrity of the judicial process.
Tahir Shah's latest book, Travels with Myself (Mosaïque Books, £11.99), is out next month Exterminate All the Brutes, by Sven Lindqvist This book inspires by upholding the dignity of the travel genre.
Such encounters made clear to me that America was not just at war with Saddam, but with Saddamism: an entrenched Arab mind-set, born of years of colonialism and humiliation, that insists that upholding Arab dignity and nationalism by defying the West is more important than freedom, democracy and modernization.
"Upholding the dignity of the court is a very important principle," Cooley said.
Rights are a context for upholding human dignity and for creating the conditions for human progress.
It is possible that these experiences are the most distressing because they interfere with the cultural values and roles of males in Kashmir society: upholding their dignity and being able to protect and feed their families.
