Lesson 3 - United Nations Principles on Human Rights

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHD) – a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind.
• Article 2 Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Declaration, without distinction

  of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,

  property, birth or other status.
• Article 3

  • Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person
• Article 4

  • No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
• Article 5

  • No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
• Article 6

  • Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
• Article 7

  • All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.
• Issues of Human Rights in the Philippines

  a.Philippine War - Drug Campaign

  b.Death Penalty

  c.Lowering the Age of Criminal Liability

  d.Freedom of Expression

  e.Rights of the members of the LGBTI Community
• Philippine War – Drug Campaign

  • human rights groups and activists are accusing the Duterte

  government of extra-judicial killings.
• . Death Penalty – many representatives filed bills seeking to reinstate the Death Penalty which were strongly opposed by the Catholic Church
• Lowering the Age of Criminal Liability – the constitution provides that children are 18 years below. Lowering the criminal liability is a violation of children’s rights.
• Freedom of Expression – the closure of ABS-CBN and veteran journalist Maria Ressa were categorized by their supporters as violation of human rights.
• . Rights of the members of the LGBTI Community – the controversial SOGIE Bill divided the opinions of Filipinos about human rights.