In the face of all inhumanity our religious and ethical convictions demand that:
Every human being must be treated humanely!
This means that every human being without distinction of age, sex, race, skin color, physical or mental ability, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity, and everyone, the individual as well as the state, is therefore obliged to honor this dignity and protect it.
From the “Declaration Toward a Global Ethic” of the Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago 1993.
