Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanization

Kaufmann, Paulus; Kuch, Hannes; Neuhaeuser, Christian; Webster, Elaine

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“…Monadic, medicalized deficit discourse catalyzes cultural oppressions and human rights violations (Balcazar et al, 2012;Kaufmann et al, 2011;McDonald et al, 2007) via notions that persons with ID lack capacity to comprehend social realities or make reasonable decisions. Some deficit discourses are that persons with ID are socially deviant, dysfunctional, dangerous (Palacios, 2015), immoral, cursed, or possessed, stimulating abuse (Braceworks, 2017).…”

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“…The theoretical perspective utilized here is a human rights (Mapp et al, 2019), ecological systems perspective, which contextualizes persons' decision making in layers of social systems. A rights-based practice perspective shifts scientific processes toward enabling persons to be active agents in their self-determination, understanding how human rights violations are embedded in social structures (Kaufmann et al, 2011), and how social interventions can be grounded in equal partnership with persons with ID (Mapp et al, 2019). This article aims to contribute guidelines for implementing SDM and indicate persons' experiences of the impacts of implementing SDM.…”

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“Help me to decide”: A study of human rights-based supported decision making with persons with intellectual disabilities.

Gudelytė,

Ruškus,

McCrea

2024

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Decision making is the basis for individual autonomy and societal participation. To support persons' human right to make life decisions, the model of supported decision making (SDM) has evolved and complies with Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Models for implementing SDM and outcomes achieved by applying SDM in community settings remain insufficiently explored. This study used a human rights perspective with participatory, qualitative research methods to investigate environmental conditions and social support measures that enabled persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) to make and implement their own decisions. Data gathered were 6 months of field notes about implementing SDM in a L'Arche day activity program with 26 adults with ID, with opinions and drawings illustrating persons' decision making. All data were analyzed thematically. As a result of using the SDM intervention, persons with ID became more expressive, able to discuss and debate options, participated in organizational and municipal decision making, and expressed "joy" and feeling "more like a human." Staff supporters found SDM fulfilling and noticed it increased the sense of ownership persons with ID experienced in individual and group meetings. An organizational environment that respects human dignity, supports sustained relationships between persons with ID and decision supporters, individualizes SDM depending on how persons can communicate, and encourages staff self-reflection about prejudices and positionality is essential for implementing SDM with persons with ID. SDM processes shift oppressive social narratives and policies in the direction of a social, relational model of the decision-making capacities and competencies of persons with ID. Public Policy Relevance StatementThe United Nations Convention on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities mandates supported decision making (SDM) to actualize social participation of persons with intellectual disabilities (ID). Legislation needs to replace substitute decision making with SDM. Social service organizations need to implement SDM with persons with ID and their families. Research with persons with ID needs to include priorities of persons with ID and This article was published Online First March 21, 2024.

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“Help me to decide”: A study of human rights-based supported decision making with persons with intellectual disabilities.

Gudelytė,

Ruškus,

McCrea

2024

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…Anonymity or encryption is a right and it should not be suppressed, controlled or restricted by any state. Humanitarian organisations must also seek greater understanding of how data and metadata collected or generated by their programs for social, political or humanitarian purposes, can be accessed and used by other parties for social control (Pirlot de Corbion et al, 2018). Organisations working with survivors have an ethical duty through the do-no-harm principle to avoid involuntarily putting people at risk of internet and communications-based torture.…”

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Internet and communications as elements for CIDT and Torture. Initial reflections in an unexplored field

Pérez–Sales

Serra²

2020

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The internet was once seen as a new and definitive window to freedom and a world without torture. There is however, another less obvious but perhaps more notorious side: torturous environments can also be created through the internet; a place where individu- als may be targeted for discrimination, coer- cion or control.There is a dearth of academic research and theoretical developments in this very new area of knowledge and this Edito- rial will review and reflect on various aspects, thereby suggesting possible lines of research.

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Human Dignity in Bioethics

Muders

2017

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

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In recent years, the concept of human dignity has become an important resource for debates in bioethics. The most important form is personal dignity, a norm or value, which typically is attributed to individual human beings. This kind of dignity protects its bearer in important ways; it cannot be alienated but only violated, and its basic form is possessed by all of its bearers to the same degree. Any adequate theory of human dignity must define the rights and other norms this notion comprises, elaborating the quality or qualities that ground its attribution to beings and the specific goods or interests it protects. While some conceptions of human dignity seek to empower their bearers by equipping them with various rights, thereby increasing their autonomy, others require of the bearers duties to themselves in addition, thereby restricting their possible choices. Both conceptions of dignity as empowerment and dignity as constraint are at play in contemporary bioethical debates on abortion, assisted suicide, organ sale and human enhancement. Key Concepts A better understanding of the concept of human dignity. An overview of the different elements a theory of human dignity typically contains. An overview of how human dignity is employed in certain bioethical debates. An overview of the problems and challenges for certain conceptions of human dignity in these applied debates. An overview of three key characteristics that are typically attributed to human dignity.

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Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanization

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“Help me to decide”: A study of human rights-based supported decision making with persons with intellectual disabilities.

“Help me to decide”: A study of human rights-based supported decision making with persons with intellectual disabilities.

Internet and communications as elements for CIDT and Torture. Initial reflections in an unexplored field

Human Dignity in Bioethics

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