BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Senior High School

Fourth Quarter
AY 2020-2021, Second Semester
Grade 12 Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship

Name: Senapilo, Francine D. Week no. 11 Date: March 15-19, 2021

Teacher: Ms. Rhea Yu . Section: Uzziah

ACTIVITY 2: EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL INJUSTICE

Learning Target: To give examples of situations in relation to the different forms of

social injustices.

Directions:
1. Give one example of situations that manifest the following social injustices.
2. Your examples may be a news article, social media post, blog/vlog, own
experience or observation.
3. If your example is based on experience or observation just indicate it on the
reference/s portion.
SOCIAL INJUSTICES
1. Choose one dimension of poverty and give an example:

Social Dimension: Inaccessible/inadequate health care; 3 out of 10 health care

facilities in the Philippines lack access to clean toilets

Reference/s: https://www.who.int/philippines/news/detail/04-04-2019-3-out-of-10-health-care-
facilities-in-the-philippines-lack-access-to-clean-toilets
2. Choose one unjust form of social inequality and give an example:

Racism: Anti-Asian violence has spiked since the pandemic began

Reference/s: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/05/us/how-to-support-the-aapi-community-iyw-
trnd/index.html
 3. Predatory Capitalism
Large pharmaceutical companies exploiting a pandemic for profit.
(Specific example: Pfizer's lobbyists are pushing to block efforts to share vaccine
intellectual property with the developing world, where it could be manufactured and
distributed at low cost)

Reference/s: https://theintercept.com/2021/03/03/vaccine-coronavirus-big-pharma-biden/
4. Occupational Injustice and give an example:
Occupational imbalance: Many children in the Philippines are not going to school, but
are put to work – often in hazardous circumstances. As of 2015, the Filipino
government hardly has any capacity to ensure implementation of anti-child labor laws.

Reference/s: https://www.cordaid.org/en/news/fighting-child-labor-filipino-children-back-
school/
5. Climate Change Injustice

Poorest people in many countries are being hit the hardest by climate change due to
the combination of a number of factors: 1) Living in areas that are seeing some of the
biggest impacts of climate change; 2) Reliance on activities that depend intimately on
the weather and; 3) Existing levels of poverty mean that communities are less able
to cope with the impacts of these changes.

Reference/s: https://www.trocaire.org/sites/default/files/resources/policy/tackling-climate-
injustice.pdf

ACTIVITY 2: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Learning Target: To analyze the articles in the UDHR.

Directions:

1. Click the link https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ to see

the full copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
2. Choose three among the articles of the UDHR and explain or elaborate the idea
in 5 sentences each.
Article = Article 6: “Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person
before the law”
Explanation:
Basically, Article 6 is saying that a person have rights no matter where they are in the
world. This is regardless of whether they are citizens or immigrants, students or
tourists, workers or refugees, or any other group. The article protects our right to a fair
trial. It is fundamental to the rule of law and democracy. It means that court cases
must be heard in public by an independent and impartial judge, in a reasonable
amount of time. We should all have the same level of legal protection whoever we
are, and wherever in the world we are.

Article = Article 7: “All are equal before the law and are entitled without any
discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection
against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement
to such discrimination.”
Explanation:
Article 7 says the law is the same for everyone and should be applied in the same
manner to all. It has been emphasized also, as it was stated three times, it bans
discrimination. These principles of equality and non-discrimination serves as the basis
of the rule of law. Discrimination on grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation and
gender identity are also covered. The law is the same for everyone and should be
applied in the same manner to all.

Article = Article 11: “(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be
presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has
had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (2) No one shall be held guilty of
any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal
offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor
shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the
penal offence was committed.”
Explanation:
Article 7 says that a person should be considered innocent until it can be proved
according to law. When someone accuses us of committing a crime, we have the right
to prove it is not true. We have the right to a defence. Furthermore, no one shall be
prosecuted for anything that was not illegal at the time it occurred. Nor can anyone be
sentenced to a harsher punishment than the one that was in place at the time the
crime was committed.