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GALAN, PAULINE R.

BS CRIM
3- ALPHA

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION


QUIZ 1

1. Define Human Rights.


 Human rights are the rights that we have as a human being to protect us right
after we are brought to life until death.
2. What are the Kinds of Human Rights? Briefly discuss each
 There are 3 kinds of human rights, the first, second and third generations. In the
first generation, it serves as an individual’s liberty rights protecting them from the
unjust power of the authorities. It is one’s civil and political rights. It is natural
ever since we are born. In the second generation, it is simply our equality rights
in the cultural, socio-economic sectors. Lastly, the third generation rights is
simply the solidarity rights of an individual or group of individuals. It revolves
within the rights of a person to have a sustrainable living.
3. What are the rights usually abused due to arbitrary exercise of police power?
 The first generation of human rights.
4. Briefly discuss how these rights are violated. State the legal bases.
 Human rights are being violated typically by the abuse of power of the authority
and by the breaking of laws and committing crimes. In the 1987 Philippine
Constitution as the preamble states that “We, the sovereign Filipino people,
imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society
and establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations,
promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to
ourselves and our posterity the blessings of independence and democracy under
the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace,
do ordain and promulgate this Constitution. “ as the 1987 Constitution is the
basic source of the Human rights Law in the Philippines for it has many human
rights and human rights- related provisions. Therefore, the human rights are
being protected by these laws due to the violations of the people and unjust
ruling of the authorities.

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