UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS

FACULTY OF CIVIL LAW

SYLLABUS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
JUDGE PHILIP A. AGUINALDO

Course description:
The subject focuses on the study of the norm of conduct in human relations, and the protection
and redress of grievance in violation of human rights, based on the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, acceptable principles of international law, and Philippine law and jurisprudence.

I. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Codal from the interntet)
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Discussion from Wikipedia)
UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Codal from
internet)
UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Codal from the internet)
Evolving Perspective of Human Rights, The Shifting Global Paradigm , 2020/08/29 (from
the internet
2. A revisit of the 1987 Constitution on the protection of human rights
Article II, Declaration of Principles and State Policies
Article III, Bill of Rights
Article XIII, Social Justice, Human Rights and Labor
Agrarian and Natural Resources Reform
Urban Land Reform and Housing
Health
Women
Role and Rights of People’s Organization
Human Rights
Article XIV. Education, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture and Sports
3. Climate Change
Writs of Kalikasan and Continuing Mandamus
(TED) The Link Between Climate Change, Health and Poverty, (Speaker : Cheryl Holder),
Internet, approximately 12 minutes
(TED) How Climate Change Affects Your Mental Health, (Speaker : Britt Way), Internet
Approximately 7:23 minutes
(TED) The Disarming Case to Act Right Now on Climate Change, (Speaker : Greta
Thunberg), internet, approximately 11 minutes
4. Justice
(TED) We need to Talk About Injustice, (Speaker Bryan Stevenson), internet
American Got Talent Singer who was wrongly incarcerated, Archie Williams singing
“Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, internet
Bill Gates’ Commencement Speech at Harvard, 2007 (Click to read full transcript or
listen) internet
5. Terrorism
The Philippine Anti-Terrorism Act
(TED) A Global Culture to Fight Extremism, (Speaker : Maajid Nawaz), internet,
approximately 18 minutes
6. Right to Privacy. Cyberbulliying and Mental Health
Mental Health Law, RA 11036
(TED) Monica Lewensky : The Price of Shame, internet
COVID-19 and Human Rights, We are All in this Together, April 2020 (internet)
Human Rights Watch, March 19, 2020, Human Rights Dimensions of COVID-19
 Response, internet
7. For your critique : Extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances in the Philippines-
Wikipedia, internet
For your critique : Human Rights Watch, World Report 2019, Philippine Events of 2018,
internet
Writs of Habeas Corpus, Amparo and Habeas Data
Writ of Habeas Data, A.M. No. 08-1-16-SC (Internet)
Mayor Mamba, et al. vs. Bueno, GR No. 191416, Feb. 7, 2017
8. RA 10364, Trafficking in Persons
Watch in the internet, “Human Trafficking : The Movie” starring Donald Sutherland,
Mira Sorvino and Robert Carlyle