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    Casiple argues that human rights are not inherently political and should not be used to further political agendas. While human rights advocates often support those who further human rights and oppose those who violate them, leftist groups sometimes portray themselves as human rights champions to undermine regimes and replace them with their own political ideals. Casiple also notes that while human rights are meant to be universal, their universality requires acceptance by the international community. Moyn challenges the notion that human rights are inherent to humanity by arguing that the modern conception of human rights emerged in response to the Holocaust. Left-leaning groups in the Philippines initially found common ground with Duterte but have since distanced themselves due to his deadly "war on drugs" which

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    Casiple argues that human rights are not inherently political and should not be used to further political agendas. While human rights advocates often support those who further human rights and oppose those who violate them, leftist groups sometimes portray themselves as human rights champions to undermine regimes and replace them with their own political ideals. Casiple also notes that while human rights are meant to be universal, their universality requires acceptance by the international community. Moyn challenges the notion that human rights are inherent to humanity by arguing that the modern conception of human rights emerged in response to the Holocaust. Left-leaning groups in the Philippines initially found common ground with Duterte but have since distanced themselves due to his deadly "war on drugs" which

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    Assignment in Comparative Human Rights Law - Session 2 (Casiple)

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    Assignment in Comparative Human Rights Law

    Session 2
    Questioning Human Rights (Casiple)
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    Joselito C. Manuel

    Casiple posits the thesis that human rights are not a political agenda, hence, apolitical.
    Baylosis on the other hand, as Casiple points out, uses human rights to further or push (his of
    the CPP-NPA‟s) political agenda. Human rights have no definite political orientation. While
    Casiple admits that at times, human rights proponents often would take sides, those who
    commit atrocities against human rights they oppose, and those who advance human rights
    they side with. Casiple mentions that CPP or leftist groups oppose regimes with „human
    rights‟ as a front intending their own political ideals to replace the power vacuum created
    once regimes are toppled.
    This in a way coincides with Samuel Moyn‟s perspective on looking at history to fully
    understand the form human rights took at present times. Revolutions like the French or
    American (civil war) struggle to oppose monarchy rule has the tinge of fighting for „human
    rights‟
    Casiple mentioned that human rights, being non-derogable in nature, are universal.
    However its universality, meaning that it is inherent in all peoples of the world, regardless of
    race, ethnicity, citizenship, color, or religion, human rights, being inherent by virtue of being
    human, also needs universal acceptance of these rights by the international community.
    While this the generally accepted concept of universality of human rights, Samuel Moyn
    challenges this by doing the historical approach that „human rights‟ came only as a response
    to the holocaust of WW2. Moyn even quoted Lafayette saying that universal and particular
    rights of any people were best protected by sovereign nation states.
    However, in relation to Duterte and the Left inclined groups, In the Friends or Foes
    essay, it was mentioned that, while at the start of Duterte‟s political career, these leftist
    groups has a bit of success in working with him, then a Mayor in Davao. National
    Democratics, or NatDems, while having “principled opposition” against EJS and with
    Duterte a firm proponent of drug pusher‟s EJS, both were able to work together. Social
    programs, release of captives, and peace negotiations among others. His campaign promises
    may lean towards the left; ending contractual labor, indiscriminate mining damaging natural
    resources, as well as his álmost‟ anti-american sentiments sits well in these natdem‟s
    philosophies. However, of the late War on Drugs campaign of Duterte, EJS left and right, the
    dead and the disappeared mounting to thousands, has the Left, being the champion of Human
    Rights, distancing themselves with Duterte. His utter disregard for due process, a key
    element of human rights, renewed the war on human rights. This time, terrorism is not the
    enemy of human rights, but the radical means used in the war on illegal drugs.

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