Let’s Check

Activity 1.1a. TRUE or FALSE. Write TRUE if the statements are correct and
FALSE if they are incorrect.

FALSE 1. The United Nations is a convention participated by 16

European countries and several American states that aims to
adopt a convention for the treatment of wounded soldiers in
combat.
FALSE 2. The Great Charter is translated as “Magnum Charta”
FALSE 3. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is recognized as
the world’s first charter of human rights.
FALSE 4. It was Eleanor Roosevelt that authored the American
Declaration of Independence.
FALSE 5. The two themes stressed by the United States Declaration of
Independence were individual rights and political rights.
TRUE 6. It was on October 24, 1945 that the United Nations came into
being comprising 50 countries all over the world.
TRUE 7. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights outlined the 30
fundamental rights that form the basis for a democratic society.
TRUE 8. The main principles laid down in the Geneva Convention
provided for the obligation to extend care without discrimination
to wounded and sick military personnel.
TRUE 9. The US Bill of Rights was the first ten amendments to the US
Constitution that protected the rights of all citizens, residents
and visitors in American territory.
FALSE 10. The United Nations Human Rights Commission was
established under the UN’s Economic and Social Council and
under the Chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Activity 1.1b. Enumerate the different documents that asserted individual rights
throughout the world.

The different documents that asserted individual rights throughout the

world are the the Magna Carta, Petition of Right, United States Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of
Rights, French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, so on and so
forth.
Let’s Analyze
Activity 1.2. Answer the following questions.

1. If Cyrus the Great had not set forth the Cyrus Cylinder to the Babylons,
had he not freed the slaves and declared that all people had the right to
choose their own religion, do you think we would still acquire our rights as
humans at this present time? Explain your answer.

Maybe we won’t acquire our rights, because in my own perspective the

Cyrus Cylinder was used as a basis of many different documents that asserted
human rights. To make it concise, it is used as a historical reference in these
present and existing human rights. Meaning to say, there are certain human
rights that will not arise considering that there are no basis from the past.

2. Explain the contribution of the United Nations on the promotion of human

rights worldwide.

The United Nations contributed a lot in the promotion of human rights

worldwide like giving protocols and making treaties in order to protect every
human being and uphold their rights across the world.

3. In your view, how important is the acquisition of rights to every human

being?

Strictly speaking, the acquisition of rights to every person is way too

important considering that without human rights, world will be more chaotic for
the reason that human being will not settle down not unless their rights are
being compromised. Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they
are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of
all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
With the acquisition, humans will live in the sense of freedom or liberty.
In a Nutshell
MY TIMELINE. Studying the history of human rights is of importance in order to
know where our basic rights have originated and how it evolved from protecting
not just our basic rights but also our multifaceted rights. In this portion of the
unit, you will be required to make a timeline of the development of the
protection of human rights from the creation of Cyrus Cylinder up to the
present.

The timeline must be presented in this manner:

DATE NAME OF THE LAW, RIGHTS

CONVENTION OR BEING
DOCUMENT SPECIFIED
539 B.C. Cyrus Cylinder  Freedom of
slaves
 Right to
choose own
religion

1215 Magna Carta  Right of the Church

(Great Charter) to be free from
government
 Right of widows
who owned
property not to
remarry
 Right of all citizens
to own and inherit
property

1776 United States Declaration  Individual Rights

Of Independence  Right of revolution.

1787 The Constitution of the United  Basic rights of

States of America citizens.

 Rights of
“liberty,
1789 French Declaration of the property,
Rights of Man and the Citizen security, and
resistance to
oppression”
 Equality of
rights
  Rights of all
citizens, residents
1791 The Bill of Rights and visitors in
American territory.
 Right to keep and
bear arms

 Rights must be
The Universal respected at all
1948 Declaration times, anywhere in
on Human Rights the world.
 Fundamental rights
that form the basis
for a democratic
society.

  Right of the people

to be secure in
their persons,
houses, papers,
and effects against
unreasonable
searches and
seizures of
whatever nature.
  Right of the people
to information on
The Constitution of the matters of public
1987 Republic of the Philippines concern shall be
ARTICLE III. Bill of Rights recognized.
 Right of the people,
including those
employed in the
public and private
sectors, to form
unions,
associations, or
societies for
purposes not
contrary to law
shall not be
abridged.

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