1.

Create a “Figure of a Person” using any of

the things around the personally owned by
each group member. Every group member
should contribute/share a personal item in
the creation of the said figure.
2. Write your ideas/notions of human rights.
Write your ideas of what should a person
enjoy.
a) Is your “human figure” complete as a
Person? Why? Why not?
b) What do you think should a person enjoy?
c) What is your idea of “human rights”?
HUMAN – TAO
HIGHEST form of a living creature
 love
1. Rational – reason, emotions hate
cry
2. Free – society, norms
3. Conscience – values
4. Mortal – lahat namamatay
 RIGHTS – Dapat

1. Not left
2. Not wrong

Ano ang dapat sa isang tao – Karapat-dapat?

Human Rights started in the year
1200 in England
 TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
1–4
5. Honor your father and - Respect the right of your
your mother parents
Rights of senior citizens
6. Thou shall not kill - Respect the Right to Life
Murder, Homicide, Parricide,
Infanticide
7. Thou shall not commit - Right to found a family,
adultery to marry
- Adultery
8. Shall not steal - Right to property
- Theft
- Robbery

9. Shall not give false - Respect the right to

testimony against your honor and reputation
neighbor - perjury
10. Shall not covet your - Respect for women
neighbor’s wife
- Concubinage
GENESIS – Garden of Eden

Adam & Eve

1.Pinatawag
2.Tinanong
3.Pinarusahan
Definition of Human Rights
UN Definition
Human Rights – those rights which are
inherent in our nature and without which we
cannot live as human beings.
CHR Definition
Human Rights are the supreme, inherent and
invaluable rights to life, to dignity and to self-
development. It is the essence of these
rights that makes man human.
CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Inherent – innate, natural, inborn in us. Not
granted by any authority. Do not need any
event for their existence.
2. Fundamental – Basic, essential, primary.
Without them, the life and dignity of man
will be meaningless.
3. Inalienable – cannot be separated,
transferred or taken away from an
individual. Cannot be given away or be
forfeited.
4. Universal – HR belongs to all people,
regardless of their sex, race, color,
language, natural origin, age, class,
religion or political beliefs.
5. Indivisible – cannot be divided and cannot
be denied even when other rights have
already been enjoyed.
6. Inter-Related and Interdependent – become
sources of other rights eg. From our right
to life – right to clean air, right to food, right
to work, right to clothing, etc.
CLASSIFICATION OF RIGHTS
ACCORDING TO SOURCE
1. NATURAL RIGHTS – God given rights. May
be unwritten but acknowledge by everyone
as morally good. Prevail as norms of
society. Right to life, liberty and property.
2. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS – enshrined in
the constitution. Cannot be removed
unless amended or changed.
3. STATUTORY RIGHTS – Rights provided by
law, promulgated by a law-making body,
and may be abolished by the same body.
RECIPIENT:
1. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OR RIGHTS OF MAN –
Rights accorded to individuals.
- Right to life
- Right to dignity – right to recognition
everywhere as a person, to honor and
reputation, to freedom of thought,
conscience etc.
- Right to self-develop – Right to education,
to share in the cultural life of our
community.
2. COLLECTIVE RIGHTS – Peoples
rights/solidarity rights and rights of society.
Can be enjoyed only in the company of others.
- Right of people as People to survive – right
to peace, non-aggression, to share in
international trade.
- Right of people to self-determination –
freedom from all forms of racial
discrimination.
- Right to Develop as a People – rights freely
to choose the goals and means of
development, to implement social and
economic reforms that ensure the
participation of all the people in the process
and benefits of development.
ASPECT OF LIFE
1. Civil Rights – Right to life, freedom of
expression, right to religion. Rights which
the law will enforce at the instance of
private individuals for the purpose of
securing to them the enjoyment of their
means and happiness.
2. Political Rights – Rights which enable us to
participate in running the affairs of the
government either directly or indirectly.
Eg. Right to vote, right to information on
matters of public concern.
3. Economic and Social Rights – those which
the law confers upon the people to enable
them to achieve social and economic
development, thereby ensuring them their
well-being, happiness and financial
security. Eg. Right to property, education
and promotion or social justice.
4. Cultural Rights – rights that ensure the
well-being of the individual and fortune
preservation, enrichment and dynamic
evolution of national culture based on the
principle of unity in diversity in a climate of
free artistic and intellectual expression.
DEROGABILITY
1. Non – Derogable or Absolute Rights –
those that cannot be suspended nor taken
away nor restricted/limited even in extreme
emergency. Eg. Right not to be deprived of
life arbitrarily, freedom from torture, right
to be recognized as a person.
2. Derogable/Not Absolute Rights – rights that
may be suspended or restricted. Eg. Right
to religion, right to move, travel. Has to
satisfy 3 conditions in order to be
suspended/limited:
a)Provided for by law
b)State of emergency which necessities the
urgent preservation of the public good,
safety and moral
c)Does not exceed what is strictly necessary
to achieve the purpose.
- If I were this HUMAN FIGURE, am I
complete as a human person?
- What else do I need to enable to
function as a person?
- What else should I add to make me
“FULLY HUMAN”?
“ NO cause is more worthy than the
cause of human rights. Human
rights are more than legal, they are
the essence of man/woman. They
are what makes man/woman
human. That is why they are
called human rights, deny them
and you deny man/woman’s
dignity.”