Human dignity plays a key role in human rights discourse. This article explores the concept of dignity in the context of human rights. The debate concerns questions like: Is the concept of dignity in the context of human rights rooted in reality, or is it merely a an abstract without any meaning and sense? Whether it is beneficial to protect the dignity of all human beings under all circumstances in the absolute sense. That implies that human dignity is seen as the highest value that must be upheld over any and all other values. Or maybe one can assume the relative conception of human dignity, according to which human dignity stands as an equal norm of an ensemble of other norms that can be measured with each other. The distinction between universal and particular aspects of human dignity is the main problem. The basic research method applied in following article is comparative analysis, and case-study elements were also used. The method of exegesis of the legal text in the mainstream of the derivative concept based on the normative conception was used as an alternative. The article concludes that dignity, despite its universal recognition, often seems to be meaningless, the content remains unclear and its use is sometimes controversial. Nevertheless, one can notice that dignity has become a kind of element of convergence different legal order and legal systems. All obstacles confronted in integrating human rights in development may be to be rooted in a neglect of the culture of normative and legal dimensions of human rights. Dignity is a kind of supranorm, a bridge between the legal positivism of European comparators and the interpretation of American functionalism. Human dignity is the space that is still unfathomable and open to creative discussion, and sets the direction for further exploration