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Human rights
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 UN General Assembly Resolution 217 (III)
established the International Bill of
Human Rights

UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
2. International Covenant on Economic Social
and Cultural Rights (1CESCR)
3. International Covenant of Civil and Political
Rights (1CCPR)
• Optional Protocol 1
• Optional Protocol 2
Philosophy of UDHR . . .

"All human beings are born free

and equal in dignity and rights."
(Article 1. UDHR)
KEY CIVIL AND 1. Right to life
Protection against Arbitrary
POLITICAL 2. Detention/ Arrest, Slavery, Torture
and In human Treatment

RIGHTS 3. Right to participate in the political

process

RECOGNIZED By 4.
Equality before the law an Non-
discriminatory Protection of the Law

ICCPR 5.
Freedom of Thought, Conscience,
Religion, Movement & Association
6. Minority Rights
1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION

The State values the dignity of every

human person and guarantees full
respect for human rights.
ARTICLE II Section 11
 What are human rights?
Human rights are rights
(entitlements) that we have because
we are human
(Simon v. Commission on Human Rights, G.R. No.
100150, Jan. 5, 1994) (see also UN definition)
 UNITED NATION

"Human rights are those rights

which are inherent in the
person's nature and without
which s/he cannot live as human
being."
 COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
PHILIPPINES

"Human Rights are the supreme,

inherent and inalienable rights to
life, to dignity and to self
development. It is the essence of
these rights that makes a person
human."
 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS (Hands
on Policy by the Government)

Are those which the law confers

upon the people to enable them
to achieve social and economic
development, thereby ensuring
them their well being, happiness
and financial security.
 Interdependence and
1. Interrelatedness
CORE 2. Universality and Inalienability
PRINCIPLE 3. Accountability and Rule of Law

OF HUMAN 4. Indivisibility

RIGHTS 5. Participation and Inclusion

Equality and Non-
6. discrimination
 Feminism and
human rights
In traditional feminist political theory, the
interest in cosmopolitanism is reflected in
attempts to theorize global feminism and
transnational advocacy, especially in relation to
“women’s rights as human rights” (Okin 2000;
Ackerly and Okin 1999; Jaggar 2000).
 Feminism and
human rights
It is important to note that cosmopolitan
feminism does not assume that women are
united by a common gender identity or
common experience of patriarchal
oppression across regions and other
boundaries.
Feminism and human rights
A number of factors have combined to
draw the attention of traditional feminist
political theorizing to the global arena and
the prospects for feminist solidarity and
gender justice beyond the liberal
democratic state.
 Feminism and
Human Rights
These include:
(1) The rising influence of antiracist,
Third World, and postcolonial feminist
theorizing from different philosophical
perspectives (for example, hooks
1984; Spivak 1988; Mohanty, Russo,
and Torres 1991);
 Feminism and
Human Rights
(2) The surge in transnational feminist
organizing sparked by the UN Decade
on Women (1975–1985) and extended
throughout the 1990s to the present
(Antrobus 2004; Fraser and Tinker
2004; Moghadam 2005);
 Feminism and
Human Rights
(3) Growing recognition within feminism
of the need to address the gendered
impacts of globalization and refocus
attention on the interplay between
economic, social, and political arenas
(Mohanty 2003; Moghadam 2005).
 Gender base
discrimination
•Despite of all the conventions and the work
done on gender issue Violence against
women continues at breathtaking rates.
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 Gender base
discrimination
•Domestic violence appears to be on the
increase as tensions rise in the global economic
crisis. Gender based discrimination persists in
the workplace, and in housing, education,
disaster relief, political life, inheritance, health
care, access to food, and countless other areas.
 Gender base
discrimination
• In 2008, the United Nations Population
Fund reported that the number of women
dying as a consequence of pregnancy and
childbirth is 'essentially unchanged since the
1980s'.
 Gender base
discrimination
• Religion, tradition, and culture continue to
be used as a shield for violating women's
rights, despite strong and persistent
statements adopted by states in United
Nations' fore that they are not a valid
justification for such violations.
 Women rights
• Women rights are the rights and
entitlements claimed for women and
girls of many societies worldwide. In
some places, these rights are
institutionalized or supported by law,
local custom, and behavior, whereas in
others they may be ignored or
suppressed.
 Women rights
• Issues commonly associated with
notions of women's rights include, though
are not limited to, the right: to bodily
integrity and autonomy; to vote (suffrage);
to hold public office; to work; to fair wages
or equal pay; to own property; to
education; to serve in the military or be
conscripted; to enter into legal contracts;
and to have marital or parental rights
Work on Women rights
Even after the formation of UDHR
following work have been done on gender
equality and rights of women;

o Convention on the Elimination of All

Forms of Discrimination Against Women

o United Nations Security Council

Resolution 1325 Maputo Protocol
 Collins, D., Falcón, S., Lodhia, S., &
Talcott, M. (2010). New directions in
feminism and human rights. Taylor

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