Clj2 human rights education

• Rights - are legal, social, or ethical principle of freedom or entitlement.
• Rights - are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.
• Human rights - are those rights which we inherent in our nature and without which we cannot live as human beings. United nation
• Inherent - natural or inborn. Belongs to us by nature.
• Jose Zalaquett -chilean lawyer who wrote that human rights are regarded as a system of values or elements which are inherent to human dignity.
• Jacques maritain - in his book, the rights of man, stressed why man has rights. The human person, possesses rights because of the very fact that is a person, a whole master itself, and of its acts and which consequently Is not merely a means to an end, but an end must be treated as such.
• Pope John xx||| - shares the thoughts of Jean Jacques. In his papal encyclical " Pacem in terris" Peace on earth.
• Pope John xxlll - he said that any human society, if it so well ordered and productive, must lay down as a foundation, this principle, namely, that every human being is a person, that is his nature endowed with intelligence and full will. By virtue of this, he has rights and duties, flowing directly and simultaneously from his veryvery nature.
• Human rights law - a branch of public law that deals with the body of laws, rules, procedures and institutions designed to respect, promote, and protect human rights at the national, regional and international levels.
• Human rights law - It also deals with decision of the supreme Court and the international criminal Court and writings of advocates of human rights.
• December 10, 1948 - The UDHR (Universal of declaration of human rights. ) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in what year.
• Magna Carta - it was signed by the king of England in 1215.
• Ratification - approval of agreement by the state.
• The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed the commencement of the World Programme for Human Rights Education on January 1, 2005.
• On December 19, 2011, the UNGA adopted the United Nations Declaration on human rights Education and Training, wherein it states in its Article No. 3.
• Inherent - not granted by any person.

  Fundamental - life without it would be meaningless.

  Inalienable - cannot be rightfully taken away as an individual.

  Imprescriptible - cannot be lost thru passage of time.

  Indivisible - incapable of division and cannot be denied though availed.

  Universal - irrespective of their origin, status, condition or place where they live.

  Interdependent - fulfillment cannot be materialized without the realization of another.
• The right of every people are soso many that it compelled Czech french jurist Karel Vasik in 1979 toto classify these rights into three generation of rights.
• Generation - refers to the succession of periods when societies and government began recognizing a set of rights.
• Civil - political ( 1st generation). Liberty- oriented rights. These are considered as a "negative rights" In the sense that they prohibit the doing of something. Or "No one shall rights... "

  For example, no torture, slavery, inhumane treatment, arbitrary arrest.

  For example, freedom of thought and religion, political participation in ones society, freedom of assembly and voluntary association.
• Socio economic (2nd generation) - also known as second generation of equality rights. (Positive rights) that States to perform an act or do something for the enjoyment of these rights by the people.

  Found in the international convention on Economic, social and cultural rights (ICESCR)

  Right to work, to education, and health.

  "State shall rights..."

  For example nutrition, health care, education, shelter.
• Collective - development 3rd generation. Intended to benefit individuals, groups and it's realization will need global cooperation based on international solidarity.

  -Newly emerging rights.

  -rights to development, environmental rights, tot live in piece. Self determination, right to natural resources, right to a healthy environment.

  -solidarity right
• Classification of right

  -natural right-  god, given rights, acknowledged by everyone to be morally good.

  -constitutional rights- those rights which are conferred and protected by the Constitution.

  -statutory rights- those rights which are provided by law promulgated by the law-making body and, consequently, may be abolished by the same body.
• According to recipient

  1. Individual rights- those rights being accorded by individuals.
  2. Collective rights- also called "people rights" Or "solidarity rights", are the rights of the society, those which can be enjoyed only in the company of others.
• According to aspect of life

  1. Civil rights - those rights which law will force at the instance of private individuals for the purpose of securing to them the enjoyment of their happiness.
  2. Political rights - those rights which enables us to participate in running the affairs of the government either directly or indirectly.
• 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.

  4.cultural rights- those rights that ensure the well-being of the individual and foster the 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.
• According to struggle and recognition

  1. First generation of human rights- covers civil and political rights which derives primarily from 17th and 18th centuries reformist theories and which are associated with english, American and French Revolution.  
  2. Second generation of human rights- covers economic, social and cultural rights which find their origin primarily in the socialist tradition and have been variously promoted by revolutionary struggles and welfare movement
• 3. third generation human rights - covers collective rights. The rise and decline of the notion states in the last of the 20th century.  
• Non-derogable - those that cannot be suspended nor taken away nor restricted/limited even in the extreme emergency and even if the government invokes national security.

  Derogable or relative rights - those that may be suspended or restricted or limited depending on the circumstances which call for the preservation of social life.
• Principles of human rights

  Universality - means that rights belong to and are to be enjoyed by all human beings without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, or language, religion, political and other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other stature.
• Indivisible - whether they relate to civil, cultural, economic, political, or social issues, human rights are inherent to the dignity of every human being.

  Equality - ensuring that every individual has an equal opportunity to make the most of their lives and talents.