Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th, 1948, has the concept of human dignity still got the same meaning? That will be one of the questions involving the participants in the University Talk about "Human dignity: what kind of reality sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?". The talk is taking place in Paris on September 23rd and 24th, on initiative by the Faculty of social and economic sciences (FASSE) of the Catholic Institute of Paris, and by "Justice and Peace", France. All the texts, the declarations and the conventions elaborated after the Universal Declaration depend on the concept of human dignity. Above all, that concept is perceived "through what offends and hurts human dignity said the organizers rather than in a positive way. The concept is actually placed in a framework originating from the end of the Second World War, characterized by horrors exceeding those of any other epochs of humanity". The University Talk will search answers to several questions; for instance: what is the Christian conception of human dignity? Who’s worthy of it? Who isn’t? How can we distinguish the ones taking care of the neighbour from those who do not? Msgr. Michel Dubost, bishop of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes and chairman of the "Justice and Peace" Commission, France, will close the meeting.
