NSTP 3 Human Rights/Dignity

Who said Human Rights are generally defined as those rights, which are inherent in our nature, and without which, we cannot live as human beings.

United Nations

Who said Human Rights are supreme, inherent, and inalienable rights to life, dignity and self-development. It is the essence of these rights that makes man human.

Philippine Commission on Human Rights

Who said Human Rights are international norms that help to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses.

plato.stanford.edu or Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

What are the basic characteristics of human rights

Inherent

Fundamental

Inalienable

Imprescriptible

Indivisible

Universal

Interdependent

Category of Human Rights such as what the Bill of Rights in the Philippine Constitution contain

As Fundamental Freedom in Political Rights

Category of Human Rights such as Rights that are commonly exercised in a democratic state

As democratic rights

Category of Human Rights such as Right to travel and return to one’s country, and the freedom to movement within the country National as well as international in character

As mobility rights

Category of Human Rights such as The core of fundamental rights which relate to the right to physical and personal integrity, consistent with human dignity

As right to life, Liberty, and the security of the person

Category of Human Rights such as Rights that constitute due process that can be invoked by persons accused

As legal rights

Category of Human Rights such as Rights against discrimination. Everyone is equal before the law and is entitled to equal protection

As rights of equality

Category of Human Rights such as Standards to be observed by the state

As economic, social, and cultural rights

Category of Human Rights such as Right to association, the right to organize unions, the prohibition of employment of children, etc

as workers’ rights

Category of Human Rights such as Rights of indigenous cultural tribes or communities

As aboriginal rights

Category of Human Rights such as The right to find a family and bear children, to gender sensitivity, etc

As reproductive rights

Category of Human Rights such as Rights provided in the international humanitarian law for the protection of children, women etc

As protective rights of persons in armed conflicts

Category of Human Rights such as Rights of people to be free from colonial rule and decide their own destiny. This was asserted by colonial people in their struggle for independence

As right of self-determination

Category of Human Rights such as Rights that include the protection of ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities

As minority group right

When did educates Filipinos become aware of the basic constitutional guaranteed mentioned in the American and English bill of rights

1896

When was the Malcolm’s constitution adopted establishing a republican government

June 20, 1899

When did President McKinley direct application of the American bill of rights upon assumption of the us sovereignty

1901

When was the first Philippine constitution adopted

1935

When was the Philippine constitution reiterated

1937

When were the Filipinos temporarily deprived of the enjoyment of the civil and political rights

In 1941-1944 during the military rule of Japan

When were the civil and political rights of the Filipinos restored after the military rule of Japan

1945

When was the rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and the Filipinos were again subjected to violation of human rights

1970s

When was the EDSA revolution

1986

When did the new constitution categorically state the state values dignity of every human person and guarantees full respect for human rights

1987