Human dignity : establishing worth and seeking solutions / Edward Sieh, Judy McGregor, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Special problems -- Dignity online and offline -- Human dignity in a world with a changing climate -- Dignity and disability -- Globalization and human rights -- Dignity and the fourth age -- Dignity before the European court of human rights -- Part II. Women and children issues -- The fragility of children's rights in policies regarding poverty -- Practices of dignity and respect: children of immigrants and justness -- Dignity and children's rights -- Dignity and human trafficking policy in Vietnam: deconstructing gender -- Re-envisioning the dignity of women's work -- The indignities of a women's prison -- Women's local social movements -- Part III. Indigenous and migrant issues -- From "polymorphism of violence" to the complexities of peace: towards an integral dignity in Colombia -- Tijuana: walls and borderlines -- Human dignity and the right to adequate housing in the global mega-events era: a discussion from the favelas of Rio De Janeiro -- Indigenous rights: how can they be respected? Indigenous youth -- the vulnerable -- Native American injustice and the mathematics of blood quantum -- Repression of Montagnards: seeking respect and dignity -- Leaving in droves from the orange groves: the Nepali-Bhutanese refugee experience and the diminishing of dignity -- Human rights, transnational migrations and the changing role of citizenship -- Dignity and the invisible spaces of irregular migration: rendering asylum seekers invisible through off-shore detention.

"This book examines the concept of dignity from a variety of global perspectives. It scrutinizes how dignity informs policy and practice, and is influenced by international and domestic law, human rights values, and domestic politics. An exciting collection of essays, this edited volume provides an analysis of human rights as they are experienced by real people who have in many cases been forced to take action to further their own interests."--Publisher's website.