Core Values and Principles

CHAPTER
THREE:

of Community-Action
Initiatives
HUMAN RIGHTS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; EMPOWERMENT AND
ADVOCACY; PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT; GENDER EQUALITY
HUMAN is defined as the rights
RIGHTS inherent to all human being
whatever our nationality, place or
residence, sex, national or ethic
origin, color, religion, language or
any other status.
 BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS

•RIGHT TO LIFE
•RIGHT TO LIBERTY
•RIGHT TO PROPERTY
 NATURAL RIGHTS
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Privacy, property, religion,
expression, contract, and movement.
 POLITICAL RIGHTS

Assembly, petition, suffrage, direct,

indirect participation, self-
determination, self-government, and
election to public office.
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS
Livelihood, equal opportunities,
education, housing, leisure and
recreation, the freedom to choose one’s
occupation, to picket and to strike for
better working conditions and various
benefits to improve the quality of life.
SOCIAL Humanization of laws
JUSTICE and the equalization of
social forces by the state
and economic
so that justice may at least be
approximated.
 According to former Senator Jose W.
Diokno, social justice is a system of law that
seeks so attain the following objectives:

• Respect our rights and freedoms as

individuals and as a people;
• Eliminate poverty as quickly as our
resources and abilities would follow;
• First, provide everyone with their basic
material needs; then, improve their
standard of living; and
• Change institutions and structures to
address inequalities.