Human Rights Notes

Human rights

Are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality,
ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.

Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and
torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education,
and many more.

- Human rights are universal (applied equally without discrimination)

-Human Rights is inalienable no one can take away this right

-Human Rights is indivisible and interdependent- all rights – political,
civil, social, cultural and economic – are equal in importance and none can
be fully enjoyed without the others. They apply to all equally, and all have the
right to participate in decisions that affect their lives.

Collective rights are human rights that protect communities and the
environment. Collective rights emerged because individual human rights do
not adequately protect peoples living collectively, especially Indigenous
peoples, local communities and other minorities.

CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS- This codified the necessity

of human rights for all.

Natural Rights - refer to rights that are universal and inalienable.

Natural law is also distinct from divine law in that the latter, in the Christian tradition,
normally referred to those laws that God had directly revealed through prophets and
other inspired writers.

Natural law can be discovered by reason alone and applies to all people, while divine
law can be discovered only through God’s special revelation and applies only to those to
whom it is revealed and whom God specifically indicates are to be bound.

FIVE KINDS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

- Economic
-Social
-Cultural
-Civil
-Political

. Economic, social, and cultural rights include the right to work, the right to food and
water, the right to housing, and the right to education.

International Covenant on Economic,Social and Cultural Rights