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=== Examples === Some of the practices that violate human dignity include [[torture]], [[rape]], [[social exclusion]], [[labor exploitation]], [[bonded labor]], and [[slavery]].<ref name=":0" /> <!-- If you add something to this list, please also add a source for it. --> Both absolute and relative poverty are violations of human dignity, although they also have other significant dimensions, such as [[Social justice|social injustice]].<ref name=":0" /> [[Absolute poverty]] is associated with overt exploitation and connected to humiliation (for example, being forced to eat food from other people's garbage), but being dependent upon others to stay alive is a violation of dignity even in the absence of more direct violations. [[Relative poverty]], on the other hand, is a violation because the cumulative experience of not being able to afford the same clothes, entertainment, social events, education, or other features of typical life in that society results in subtle humiliation; social rejection; marginalization; and consequently, a diminished self-respect. Another example of violation of human dignity, especially for women in developing countries, is lack of [[sanitation]]. Having no access to [[toilet]]s leaves currently about 1 billion people of the world with no choice other than to [[open defecation|defecate in the open]], which has been declared by the [[Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations|Deputy Secretary-General]] of the United Nations as an affront to personal dignity.<ref>JMP (2014). [http://www.susana.org/en/resources/library/details/2036 Progress on drinking water and sanitation, 2014 Update] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402115029/http://www.susana.org/en/resources/library/details/2036 |date=2015-04-02 }}. WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), {{ISBN|978 92 4 150724 0}}, page 11</ref> Human dignity is also violated by the practice of employing people in India for "[[manual scavenging]]" of [[human excreta]] from unsanitary toilets{{snd}}usually by people of a lower [[caste]], and more often by women than men.<ref name="HRW2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/india0814_ForUpload_0.pdf|title=Cleaning Human Waste: "manual scavenging", Caste and Discrimination in India|publisher=Human Rights Watch|access-date=23 June 2015|date=2014}}</ref> [[Female genital mutilation]] (FGM) has been considered by [[Pope Francis|Pope Francis I]] to be an example of a practice that violates human dignity.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pullella |first=Philip |date=2022-02-06 |title=Pope says female genital mutilation affronts dignity, must end |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-says-female-genital-mutilation-affronts-dignity-must-end-2022-02-06/ |access-date=2022-10-08}}</ref> The movie ''[[The Magic Christian (film)|The Magic Christian]]'' depicts a wealthy man ([[Peter Sellers]]) and his son ([[Ringo Starr]]) who test the limits of dignity by forcing people to perform self-degrading acts for money. The ''[[The Simpsons|Simpsons]]'' episode "[[Homer vs. Dignity]]" has a similar plot.
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