Reviewer in Human Rights (MIDTERM)

TERMS DEFINITION
-Rights that belong to an individual or group of
individuals simply for being human, or as a
consequence of inherent human vulnerability, or
because they are requisite to the possibility of a
just society.
HUMAN RIGHTS - It is a wide continuum of values or capabilities
thought to enhance human agency or protect
human interests and declared to be in universal
in character, in some sense equally claimed for all
human beings, present and future.

-Human conduct should be judged according to,

STOICS and brought into harmony with, the law of
nature.

-Allowed for the existence of a natural law and

with it-pursuant to “jus gentium” (LAW OF
ROMAN LAW NATIONS) certain universal rights that extended
beyond the rights of citizenship.

LIBERTY -Freedom from arbitrary rule

DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS -This proclaims that “men are born and remain
free and equal in rights” and that “the aim of
OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN every political association is the preservation of
(AUGUST 26, 1789) the natural imprescriptible rights of man”.

-Rights therein set forth are endorsed from

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF representatives of many cultures as
HUMAN RIGHTS “a common standard achievement for all peoples
and all nations”5