Is the Human Dignity of Those Deprived of Their Liberty Protected in Colombia?
Journal Title: RHS-Revista Humanismo y Sociedad - Year 2022, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
Human dignity, as the foundation and principle of the Social State of Law, is not the result of chance, it is the outcome of a conceptual, philosophical and theological development and of social and liberal revolutions that accomplished its recognition as an inherent value of human beings. This way, such concept became integrated into the positive normative system and into international instruments, to which Colombia abides, mandatory for the States. However, nowadays, the recognition of the inherent dignity of human beings and its positivization in different Colombian State regulations does not guarantee its comprehensive protection, especially for people who are deprived of their liberty. Such population has a legal bond with the State, which is obliged to protect their dignity. Due to this obligation being unfulfilled, the Colombian Constitutional Court has been forced to declare on several occasions the unconstitutional state of affairs in relation to penitentiary facilities and the prison system and has determined that the State has the obligation to protect all persons deprived of liberty by virtue of the human dignity that is inherent to them.
Authors and Affiliations
Héctor Alonso Sepúlveda Patiño
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP707884
- DOI https://doi.org/10.22209/rhs.v10n1a05
- Views 85
- Downloads 0
Complexity and Its Diversity of Conceptions
This text is part of epistemological and methodological constructions and reflections that are aimed at helping understand contemporary psychosocial phenomena. It addresses a concern for the reductionism and simplificati...
Astronomy as an Interdisciplinary Strategy to Strengthen Academic Management at the San Antonio de Prado Educational Institution
Through the application of astronomy didactic units, a project was designed that aimed to strengthen academic management from an interdisciplinary curriculum perspective and implementing Virtual Learning Environments (VL...
Academic and Professional Profile of Workers Residing in Pichincha: A Vision from the Perspective of Neuroscience
The insertion of workers in employment and their professional performance must consider a multiplicity of factors that affect their satisfaction, ranging from their vocation to their physical, social, and obviously econo...
Video game consumption practices among secondary school students
To establish the degree of correlation between the gender of the students and their video game consumption habits, a survey of closed items was applied to a sample of 330 students from the General Santander Educational I...
Building equity in Medellín: a commitment from the Gender Observatory of the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences of Uniremington
The construction of equity and social justice scenarios within the city of Medellín is a joint task aligned to a training and research endeavor that is forged within universities. In the universitas view of education, th...