HUMAN RIGHTS AND

THE GRASS ROOTS

 ADVOCACY
Is an act of supporting the cause.
 is an activity by an individual or group that aims to
influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and
institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to
influence public policy, laws and budgets by using facts, their
relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government
officials and the public. Advocacy can include many activities that a
person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public
speaking, commissioning and publishing research.
 DEVELOP AN ADVOCACY
MATERIAL THAT CAN HELP
CHANGE THE SITUATION
OF THE PEOPLE IN THE
GRASS ROOTS WHO ARE
EXPERIENCING HUMAN
VIOLATION.
 CHOOSE FROM THE
FOLLOWING GRASS
ROOTS SECTORS
 Urban poor

 Fisherfolk

 Indigenous cultural communities

 Farmers
 THE ADVOCACY MATERIAL
SHOULD MEET THE FOLLOWING

 Create awareness among the students and the communities

on the issues affecting the grassroots sector.

 Determine and analyze a legal provision that may be

invoked to protect the people in the grass roots.
 GRASSROOTS

 Movement is one which uses the people in a given district,

region, or community as the basis for a political or economic
movement. Grassroots movements and organizations use
collective action from the local level to effect change at the
local, regional, national, or international level.
 URBAN POOR -

 refers to individuals or families in urban areas with incomes below the

poverty line as defined by the National Statistical Coordinating
Board(NSCB). They are the underprivileged or homeless sector of society -
the unemployed, underemployed and the irregularly employed, or who are
incapable of meeting the minimum basic needs, and who live in slums,
squatter and resettlement areas, sidewalks, dumpsites, road right-of-way,
cemeteries, unoccupied government or private lands or along danger zones
like railroad tracks, esteros, riverbanks, high tension wires, or other places in
urban areas.
 The urban Poor are integral part of society and are partners in
urbanization and industrialization.
 They help turn the wheel of economy; they are the factory workers, rank
and file government and private employees, soldiers, lowly paid policemen
drivers, vendors, house help and waiters.
 They are the mass market of industry; A great consumer of food and
medicines, RTW, comics and movies.
 They are source of political power; when they exercise their right to elect
local provincial, regional and national officials.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

 are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of

relating to people and the environment. They have retained social,
cultural, economic and political characteristics that are distinct from
those of the dominant societies in which they live.
 FISHERFOLK

 as of a coastal community,
engaged in fishing as a living
 FARMER

 (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture,

raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually
applies to people who do some combination of raising
field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer
might own the farmed land or might work as a labourer on land
owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually
a farm owner, while employees of the farm are known as farm
workers, or farmhands.