Human Dignity in Asia

"The concept of human dignity, as one commentator observes, is "here, there, and everywhere" in contemporary human rights discourse. Its prominence, however, has generated ever more controversies in recent years. The contemporary debate is driven by the paradoxical prominence and elusiveness of this concept in judicial interpretation. Its meaning is notoriously hard to pin down, as manifested on easy appropriation by both sides of such controversies as abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and other heated issues in bioethics"--