HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL

JUSTICE

Reference: Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship

By: Mariano M. Ariola
Learning Competencies
• At the end of the lesson, the students should have learned to:

• Demonstrate understanding on the core values of human rights

• Explain the principles of human rights
Human rights – rights inherent to all human beings.
Universal Human rights are often expressed and guaranteed by law, in the forms of treaties,
customary international law.

- Universal and inalienable

- Interdependent and indivisible
- Equal and non-discrimination
- Entails rights and obligations
Core values
1. Integrity, transparency, and accountability
2. Professionalism and responsiveness
3. Advocacy
4. Focus and direction
5. Partnership and collegial spirit
6. Social responsibility
7. Mutual respect and tolerance
8. Innovation and entrepreneurship
9. Financial sustainability
10. Networking and internationalism
Other core values of human rights:
• Service – with humility
• Independence – including fairness, objectivity and impartiality
• Inclusiveness – ensuring diversity
• Accessibility – ensuring empathy, tolerance and understanding
• Collaboration
• Making rights real
Principles of Human rights
 Universality and inalienability
 Indivisibility
 Interdependence and interrelatedness
 Equality and non-discrimination
 Participation and inclusion
 Accountability and rule of law
Social justice – is enshrined in the Philippine Constitution specifically in Article XIII, Section 1 to 19.
- It is a mandate of the constitution which requires adoption of the State of measure that
will promote the right of all people in equality of opportunities in all human endeavor
and equitable sharing of socio-economic benefits that will ameliorate the standard of
living of the under privilege group of people.
Core values of Social Justice
1. Commitment to the common good
2. Protection of human life and dignity
3. Accountability
4. Responsibility
5. Rehabilitation
6. Concern for others
Principles underlying social justice
1. Promotion of equality of opportunity
2. Promotion of full employment and equal work opportunities
3. Promotion of the right to health
4. Respect and recognition of people’s organizations
5. Promotion of humane conditions of work
6. Fair and just compensation
7. Participation in policy and decision-making
Awareness of Human Rights in the Communities
The State shall promote social justice in all phases of national development to ensure dignity,
welfare, and security of the people. Specifically the State shall –
 Protect and enhance the right of all people to human dignity
 Reduce social, economics, and political inequalities
 Remove cultural inequalities by equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the
common good
The people should be aware that social justice promotes equality of opportunity in the following:
 Distribution of lands to landless farmers
 Maintenance of free education up to public high schools and lately to SUCs
 Grant of scholarship to poor but deserving students
 Encouragement of non-formal training or the alternative learning system (ALS)
 Grant 20% discount to senior citizens and persons with disabilities
- Continuation of equality of opportunity …
• Development of cooperatives
• Prohibition of private monopolies
• Protection of the rights of indigenous cultural minorities
• The requirements that taxation shall be uniform, equitable and progressive so that greatest burden
shall fall more on those better able to pay.
• Taxation reform program in which those earning Php 200K or less annually is exempted from
payment of income tax.
Thank you for listening.