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August 2023
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
The main research problem of this study is to determine how many are aware
and the extent of awareness and experiences, regarding human rights law among
HUMSS students. The general goal of this research is to assess the current level of
understanding, attitudes, and experiences of students towards human rights law, with
the aim of identifying areas of improvement in educational approaches. Addressing this
research problem is vital as it can provide insights into the effectiveness of current
educational methods and the potential need for enhanced human rights education. By
examining the level of awareness and experiences, this study contributes to the broader
understanding of how educational institutions can better equip students with the
knowledge and skills necessary to promote and protect human rights in society.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Human Rights Law is under the 1987 Constitution of the philippines Article III
“Bill of rights” herein is found the generalization of the human rights law stating diffirent
laws such as Art. 3 section 1: “No person should be deprived of life,liberty or property
without due process of law,nor any person be denied the equal protection of the laws”
or Art. 3 section 2: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures of whatever nature
and for any purpose shall be inviolable, and no search warrant or warrant of arrest shall
issue except upon probable cause to be determined personally by the judge after
examination under oath or affirmation of the complainant and the witnesses he may
produce, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things
to be seized” these two laws are such examples found in this article containing 22
sections just solely for our human rights.The concept and practice of human rights
within the Philippines is defined by this Article of the Philippine Constitution, as well as
the United Nations International Bill of Human Rights, to which the Philippines is a
signatory. But even so not many people are aware of this law even our own government
have pretty much forgotten this law according to Human Rights Watch in 2016 with the
recent War on drugs administration police and their agents have killed between 6,200
alleged drug dealers and users as many as 30,000 people an estimate by domestic
rights groups of this 30,000 people most were found to be urban poor.That is probably
why this problem still exist as even our own government officials violates this law
prosecuting and murdering individuals without the due process of law but this doesn’t
mean that we civilians are also innocent because almost everyday we are excercising
our human rights most of us dont know what are the limits and boundaries of this law
are even if you have a law related family background or have experienced the bliss and
violation of human rights law,that is why it is not a common occurence in our everyday
life that we are violating this law or our rights are violated by others.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
This study aims to describe the students’ perception of their experiences on exercising
human rights. Specifically, this study sought to answer these research questions:
2. What are the most commonly acknowledged human rights based on students’
experiences?
3. What are the least commonly acknowledged human rights based on students’
experiences?
This study aims to determine how many are aware and the Level of awareness
and experiences regarding human rights law among HUMSS students in PHINMA COC.
This study is limited to HUMSS students as we researchers believe that they have the
qualities and skills that are ideal to our research and can produce a great deal of results
and we can find out what the effects of being both being a student undergoing the study
of laws and having experienced these laws firsthand in PHINMA COC located at Max Y.
Suniel St, Cagayan de Oro, 9000 Misamis Oriental of the school year 2023-2024 for
their Level of awareness and experiences regarding human rights laws.
1.) Students – As we are conducting this research the students that we are
going to interview and ask questions too, will start to wonder what human rights law
really is and how it helps them which in turn will broaden their knowledge regarding
human rights.
2.) Their parents – Having their children be aware to human rights law they can
learn from them or be assured that their child are learning important lessons at school
and will be growing up to be a great addition to society.
3.) Faculty – This research can be the start of a new curricula for students in
order to help and shape young minds to be future promising individuals.
4.) Society – This study can be a base for future researchers on how and what
needs to be done for our society to spread the awareness of human rights law how it
helps and maintains peace in us all.
Conceptual Framework:
For clarity of ideas, the following terms are defined according to how they are
used in the study:
Constitution - is the rule book for a state. It sets out the fundamental principles by
which the state is governed.
Drugs - substance which has a physiological effect when injested or introduced into the
body by other means.
Human rights – the right that is believed rightfully belonging to every person
Seizure – when the government or its agent removes property from an individual's
possession as a result of unlawful activity or to satisfy a judgment entered by the court.
Signatory - a party that has signed an agreement, especially a country that has signed
a deal of another party/ies or country.
Social Sciences - any branch of academic study or science that deals with human
behaviour in its social and cultural aspects
Urban poor - refers to the set of economic and social difficulties that are found in
industrialized cities.
Warrant - an written order of a court which directs a law enforcement officer to arrest
and bring a person before the judge.
CHAPTER 2
This chapter presents the literature and studies which are relevant and similar
to this research. This includes research articles, finished thesis, and other references
which address ideas, concepts, generalizations, and recent developments related to the
study from past to present.The information in this chapter help in familiarizing details
which are significant to the present study.
RELATED LITERATURE
The Human Rights Law is our Independent Variable.The human rights law is the
law that was passed by the United nations which the philippines is a signatory which
means we pilipinos are agreign to and are adapting this law this law can even be found
in our constitution Article 3.”Bill of Rights section” 1 – 22 focusing about the rights of the
inhabitants here in our nation protecting us from slavery,oppression,loss of freedom and
many more. Awareness on human rights refers to an individuals understanding and
knowledge of their fundamental rights and freedoms as stated in our constitution and
the united nations international bill of rights this law is important to an indivivudual as it
serves as a protection,power,and order to a community by knowing these rights an
individual can protect themselves and others dignity,property,and justice imagine if this
law didnt exist one could just be killed in the streets like a dog by the police if we didnt
have rights or even when the police arrests you when you were just walking around that
is why a citizen should know what are his/her rights so they can avoid violating
someone elses and be violated themselves.
The practical experiences of human rights vary from people to people with others
not even knowing about it,others violating it without even knowing The Level of
awareness and experiences of PHINMA COC HUMSS strand students is our dependent
variable we will be accessing and recording the level of their awareness and their
experiences in our research study finding out what really is and what are the levels of
their awareness and experiences regarding human rights law.Many people have
experiences regarding human rights law even just by existing we are excercising our
human right but not many are aware of this as human rights law was a law purely based
on promoting common good and compassion to others,it already existed at the dawn of
humanity that is why not many people are actually aware what the human right laws are
and are they even experiencing it when it actually the most crucial law to us people.The
right to have access to justice,equality and non-discrimination,protection from
abuse,freedom of both self and expression,right to education and work,health and well
being,dignity and many other rights that we have that are just pretty much just common
sense in our daily lives.
RELATED STUDIES
Local
Foreign
The research conducted by Singh, Sheojee & Singh, Harjinder. (2015). titled
“HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS AMONG B.ED. STUDENTS”. Is a research conducted
in India for B.ED (Bachelor of Education) students to access the relevance of Human
rights to them as soon to be educators which yield results that showed that their
research participants were only a few showed a high level awareness while most
showed middle level awareness so it concluded that their participants awareness
regarding human rights were excellent and didnt need any betterment..In adition
Macsorley P, Gordon S, Gardiner T, Newton-Howes G.(2023) Awareness of the Need
for Change: A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Medical Students' Understanding of
Human Rights in Mental Health. Is a study conducted in University of Otago,
Wellington , New Zealand on their medical students focused on psychiatric health about
their theoretical understanding of the value of a service user led human rights of their
psychiatric patients which they found that after the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (CRPD) this made the psychiatric module of their curricula was lagging
behind and this convention helped them be aware of the human rights of their mentally
ill patients.This research shows what will actually happen if a person has or have been
given awareness on human rights even if the person is mentally ill he/she is still human
with right in this study it was even shown the reflection of their 98 participants where
most where thankful of the contibution of the CRPD in their line of study.
Ther researchs is pretty much the same us our research the only dissimilarities
would be their research setting and research participants but our study is unique from
our foreign related studies due to its specific focus on the awareness and experiences
of HUMSS strand students at PHINMA COC Senior High School in relation to Human
Rights Law,Its specific target group (PHINMA COC HUMSS strand students), it
explores both the level of awareness and the actual experiences of the HUMSS strand
students where this approach can offer a comprehensive view of how human rights
education is integrated into our participants academic journey and how it might impact
their personal and professional development.
CHAPTER 3
METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the research design, data collection method, sampling,
and data analysis of the study.
Research Design
We the researchers chose the descriptive research design for our research
“HUMSS Student’s Level of Awareness on Human Rights and Their Experiences”
because it answers the 5 WH questions and as it answers these questions we can
better associate our research to our desired results that aims to provide a detailed
account or description of the phenomenon without manipulating its variables in this case
the variables are Awareness and the experiences of the HUMMS strand students.
Research Environment
The research environment for the study "HUMSS Student’s Level of Awareness
on Human Rights and Their Experiences" is located at the Phinma Coc Carmen
Campus in Cagayan de Oro, specifically in the Senior High School building on Max Y.
Suniel St, Misamis Oriental, Philippines where our respondents are currently studying in
their desired focuses.
Research Respondents
Where n is the sample size,N is the population size,and X is the margin of error or
precision.Where in our research N = 370 and our margin of error (X) is = 5% (0.05) so
we can have a 95% confidence level in our research so now we can compute.
Research Instrument
a.Very aware (have heard and knows the basics of human rights)
b.Somewhat aware (have heard but only knows some of the basic rights)
c.Neutrally aware (have heard but only knows the concept of human rights)
e.Never ever even heard of it (doesn’t know the basics nor the concept of human rights)
a.Yes b.No
3.Do you know what are civil rights?(Right to freedom and equality in dignity and
right, Right to life, liberty and security of person, Right to freedom from slavery
and servitude etc.)
b.Somewhat aware (have heard but only knows some of the civil rights)
c.Neutrally aware (have heard but only knows the concept of civil rights)
e.Never ever even heard of it (doesn’t know the basics nor the concept of civil rights)
b.Somewhat aware (have heard but only knows some of the civil rights)
c.Neutrally aware (have heard but only knows the concept of civil rights)
e.Never ever even heard of it (doesn’t know the basics nor the concept of civil rights)
a.Very aware (have heard and knows both Legal and political rights are)
b.Somewhat aware (have heard but only knows some of the Legal and political rights)
c.Neutrally aware (have heard but only knows the concept of Legal and political rights)
e.Never ever even heard of it (doesn’t know the basics nor the concept of Legal and
political)
a.Very aware (have heard and knows both Legal and political rights are)
b.Somewhat aware (have heard but only knows some of the Legal and political rights)
c.Neutrally aware (have heard but only knows the concept of Legal and political rights)
e.Never ever even heard of it (doesn’t know the basics nor the concept of Legal and
political)
7. Do you know that human rights are what we humans have in order to know
what our obligations and our protections are?
8.Have you ever heard of article XIV, Section 1, of the 1987 Constitution?
a.Have heard and I know it word for word (knows it word for word)
b.Have heard but I dont know it word for word (can say the important parts of the
section)
e.Never ever even heard of it (doesn’t know the basics nor the concept)
a.Yes I have
c.No I haven’t
d.Don’t know as it might be at the time towards today I didn’t know if it was a violation
e.Prefer not to talk about it
11. At the time of the violation do you think having known what human rights are
it could have gone diffirently?
a.Very useful
b.Somewhat useful
c.Neutral
d.Sometimes useful
e.Useless
We plan to use this questionnaire by giving this to our research respondents with the
sample size of 20 chosen using simple random sampling in order to find the desired
result of our research which is to answer the HUMSS Student’s Level of Awareness on
Human Rights and Their Experiences.
Data Analysis
This study aims to measure various key variables related to HUMSS students'
awareness of human rights and their experiences. These variables include the
participants' level of awareness on different categories of human rights, participation in
human rights education, knowledge of specific rights, experience of rights violations,
and the perceived usefulness of human rights law.Collectively, the data gathered from
these variables will be subjected to quantitative analyses to derive meaningful insights
into HUMSS students' awareness of human rights and their real-world experiences. It's
crucial to recognize the limitations of the research, including the 20 people sample size,
potential self-reporting biases, and variations in the interpretation of terms, to ensure a
comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the study findings.Provided that this
limitations are stated we will interpret our data collected from our 20 random people
sample size as the HUMSS students awareness of human rights and their experiences
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