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CU-2-Human-Rights-Education FSHR
CU-2-Human-Rights-Education FSHR
CU-2-Human-Rights-Education FSHR
EDUCATION
WEEK 2 TOPICS
Human rights allow a person to live with dignity and in peace, away from the
abuses that can be inflicted by abusive institutions or individuals.
2. Fundamental
Without them, the life and dignity of man will be meaningless
3. Inalienable
Cannot be rightfully taken away from a free individual unless specific
situations call for it. However, the deprivation of a person's right
is subject to due process.
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Cannot be given away or be forfeited
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Characteristics of Human Rights
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4. Universal
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Applies irrespective of one’s origin, status, or condition or place where one
EDUCA lives
TION
Rights can be enforced without national border
5. Imprescriptible
Cannot be lost even if man fails to use or assert them, even by a long
passage of time
6. Indivisible
Not capable of being divided
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Cannot be denied evenATTY.when
GLINDA B. other rights have already been enjoyed
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Characteristics of Human Rights
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RIGHT
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7. Equal and non-discriminatory
TION Human rights protect all people regardless of race, nationality,
gender, religion, and political leaning, among others. They
should be respected without prejudice.
8. Interdependent
The fulfillment or exercise of one cannot be had without the
realization of the other
2. Constitutional Rights
Conferred and protected by the Constitution and which cannot be modified or
taken away by the law-making body
3. Statutory Rights
Those rights which are provided by law promulgated by the law-making body
May be abolished by the body that created them
2. Collective Rights
Also called “people’s rights” or “solidarity rights”
Rights of the society, those that can be enjoyed only in
company with others
Partake of the nature of political rights when they are utilized as a means to
participate in the government.
2. Political Rights
Rights which enable us to participate in running the affairs of the government
either directly or indirectly
4. Cultural Rights
Rights that ensure the well-being of the individual and foster the
preservation, enrichment, and dynamic evolution of national culture
based on the principle of unity in diversity in a climate of free artistic
and intellectual expression.
Covers economic, social, and cultural rights which find their origin
primarily in the socialist tradition.
Freedom of association and assembly, freedom of religion and, more especially, the
freedom to form or join a trade union, fall into this category.
The collective element is even more evident when human rights are linked
specifically to membership of a certain group, such as the right of members of ethnic
and cultural minorities to preserve their own language and culture.
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Classification of Rights According to Derogability
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1. Absolute or Non-Derogable Rights
RIGHT
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EDUCA Those that cannot be suspended nor taken away nor restricted/limited even in
TION
extreme emergency and even if the government invokes national security
2. Democratic Rights
Commonly exercised in a democratic state
a. Right to vote and to participate in the electoral process
b. Right to participate in public or governmental affairs
Everyone is equal before the law and is entitled to equal protection or the
equal benefit of the law
9. Aboriginal Rights
Associated with the rights of indigenous cultural tribes or communities
Provided in the international humanitarian law for the protection of children, women and
non-combatants during internal armed conflicts