THE CATEGORIES

OF HUMAN RIGHTS
IN THE PHILIPPINES
AS FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM IN
POLITICAL RIGHTS
 The Bill of Rights in the Philippine
Constitution contains these fundamental
freedoms
 Article III of the Philippine Constitution is
the Bill of Rights.
 It establishes the relationship of the
individual to the State and defines the
rights of the individual by limiting the
lawful powers of the State.
AS DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS
 Rights that are exercised in the
Philippines is a democratic state
 democratic rights being those around
being able to vote and run for office,
form political parties etc.
AS MOBILITY RIGHTS
 Right to travel and return to one’s
country, and the freedom to movement
within the country
 National as well as international places
 As long we follow the rules in process of
traveling
AS RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND
THE SECURITY OF THE PERSON

 Represents the core of fundamental

rights which relate to the right to
physical and personal integrity,
consistent with human dignity.
AS LEGAL RIGHTS
 Rights that constitute due process that
can be invoked by persons accused.
 Article III, better known as the Bill of
Rights, which starts with the statement,
“No person shall be deprived of life,
liberty, or property without due process
of law, nor shall any person be denied the
equal protection of the laws.”
AS RIGHTS OF EQUALITY

 Right against discrimination

 Everyone is equal before the law
and is entitled to equal protection
or the equal benefit of the law
AS ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND
CULTURAL RIGHTS
 Considered to be more of standards
to be observed by the State
 Freedom from detention, torture
and other forms of political
repression will be meaningless when
people are hostage to hunger,
disease, ignorance and
unemployment.
AS WORKERS’ RIGHTS
 Includes the right to association, the
right to organize unions, to bargain
collectively, the prohibition of
employment of children, and the
guarantee of minimum wages and
other support.
AS ABORIGINAL RIGHTS
 Associated with the rights of
indigenous cultural tribes or
communities
 They are inherent rights which
Aboriginal peoples have practiced
 Indigenous rights are those rights
that exist in recognition of the
specific condition of the indigenous
peoples.
AS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
 Includes the right to found a
family and bear children, to
gender sensitivity and the
biomedical technology, and to
family planning
AS PROTECTIVE RIGHTS OF
PERSONS IN ARMED CONFLICTS

 Rights provided in the international

humanitarian law for the protection
of children, women and
noncombatants during internal
armed conflicts.
AS RIGHT OF SELF-
DETERMINATION
 This rights was asserted by colonial
peoples in their struggle for
independence
 Right of people to be free from
colonial rule and decide their own
destiny (Article II, Section 7,
Philippine Constitution 1987)
AS MINORITY GROUP RIGHT
 These rights include the
protection of ethnic, linguistic
and religious minorities (Article
XIV, Section 7, Philippine
Constitution 1987)
DIFFERENT KINDS OF RIGHTS
 LEGAL AND MORAL
 Legal is rightness is based on, or concerned
with the law.
 Moral is the goodness or badness of human
character.
 Because of this two we have our dilemma
 Dilemma is a situation in which a difficult
choice has to be made between two or more
alternatives, especially equally undesirable
ones.
LEGALLY WRONG BUT
MORALITY RIGHT
 This scenario is when we violate the
law because we think it is morality
right
 Example- When a police officer
refusing to turn over a witness in
custody as ordered, based on the
belief that the custody was corrupt
and planned to kill the witness.
LEGALLY RIGHT BUT MORALITY
WRONG
 This scenario is when we do not
violate the law but we feel morality
wrong
 Example- When a police officer
arrest a person who use marijuana
for medicinal purpose because it is
in the law that people preventing
that use of marijuana