UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) names dignity as one justification for human rights among others, the two UN Covenants on Rights (1966) ground human rights solely on dignity.

The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders?

May 19, 2008 (Democratic Voice of Burma) -Local authorities have imposed a strict ban on Burmese photojournalists taking pictures of damage caused by Cyclone Nargis and the dire conditions of storm victims.

in Nepal Tibetan women, including nuns, clashed with police in the capital, Kathmandu, on May 12, 2008.

Italy is flooding the India's market with its luxury goods. With its economy booming, India is readily accepting the tsunami of various products. With extra money on hands, the Indians are happily spending their money on luxury goods. Some Indians have ta

Rescuers pulled a 31-year-old man to safety Tuesday after he was trapped for more than a week in a flattened power plant near the epicenter of last week's earthquake in central China, while the region remained jittery over warnings of aftershocks.

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital origins from Latin

The story of Josef Fritzl, the man believed to have imprisoned his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered her seven children, has been described as one of the worst cases in Austria's criminal history.

The saffron-robed monks who spearheaded a bloody uprising last fall against Myanmar's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and spiritual solace to cyclone victims.

At 02:41 on May 7, 1945, at the SHAEF headquarters in Reims, France, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, Colonel General Alfred Jodl, signed the German Instrument of Surrender. All active operations were to cease at 23:01 Central