HRE(Human Rights Education)

• The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed the commencement of Human Rights Education (1 January 2006).
• The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines issued Resolutions Nos A2007 - 028 and A2007 - 029 urging the Commission on Higher Education and law schools to offer Human Rights in the Philippine Law curriculum.
• The UNGA adopted the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training that it “concerns all ages” and “all levels” including pre - school, primary, secondary, and higher education.
• Human Rights Education is an essential tool for human rights awareness and empowerment.
• Human rights education equips people with the knowledge, skills and values to recognize, claim and defend their rights.
• Human rights education is a crucial part of building and advancing societies.
• Human rights education empowers people to know, claim and defend their rights.
• Human rights education promotes participation in decision making and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
• Human rights education encourages empathy, inclusion and non - discrimination.
• The Philippines is one of the 48 countries that adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948.
• The Philippines is a signatory to the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which it ratified on 7 June 1974.
• The Philippines is a signatory to the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which it ratified on 23 October 1986.
• The Philippines is a signatory to the International Convention Against Racial Discrimination, which it ratified on 23 October 1986.
• The Philippines is a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which it ratified on 23 October 1986.
• The Philippines is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which it ratified on 23 October 1986.
• The Philippines is a signatory to the U.N. Convention on the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Conflict (the First Geneva Convention), which it ratified on 23 October 1986.
• Political rights are those rights which enables us to participate in running the affairs of the government either directly or indirectly.
• Constitutional rights are those rights which are conferred and protected by the Constitution.
• Civil rights are those rights which the law will force at the instance of private individuals for the purpose of securing to them the enjoyment of their happiness.
• Human Rights are inherent to all human beings, regardless of nationality, place of residence, sex, nationality, ethnicity, skin, color, religion, language or any other status.
• Economic and Social rights are 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.
• Collective rights, also called “people’s rights” or “solidarity rights”, are the rights of the society, those which can be enjoyed only in the company of others.
• The second generation of economic, social and cultural rights include a right to work; right to social security; right to form and to join trade unions; right to education; right to rest and leisure; right to health; right to shelter.
• The third generation of solidarity rights include a right to peace; right to development; environmental rights; right of self-determination; right to food; rights of women; rights of children; right to humanitarian disaster relief; right to water.
• Statutory rights are those rights which are provided by law promulgated by the law-making body and, consequently, may be abolished by the same body.
• Human Rights refer to the “basic rights and freedoms that all human beings have.”
• Human Rights are classified by Karel Vasak in 1979 based on the French revolution’s three slogans: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
• Natural rights are God-given rights, acknowledged by everybody to be morally good.
• The first generation of civil and political rights include a right to life, liberty and security of person; right against torture; right to equal protection against any discrimination; right against arbitrary arrest and detention; right to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal; right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty; right to privacy, freedom of opinion and expression.
• Civil and political rights are individual rights against the state and are partly seen as negative rights because they prevent the state from the performance of certain things that are considered harmful.
• Individual rights are those rights being accorded to individuals.
• The Philippines is a signatory to the Convention Against Homicide (CAH), which it ratified on 23 October 1986.
• Aboriginal Rights are associated with the rights of indigenous cultural tribes or communities.
• Rights of Equality, also known as the right against discrimination, ensure that everyone is equal before the law and is entitled to equal protection or the equal benefit of the law.
• Universal human rights belong to every human being, no matter what he or she is like; because rights are universal, its promotion and protection are the duty of all States, regardless of cultural, economic or political systems.
• Fundamental human rights are inherent birthrights of all human beings, existing independently of the will of either an individual human being or group; not obtained and granted through any human action or intervention; when one is born, he carries with him these rights; and cannot be separated or detached from him.
• Inalienable human rights cannot be deprived or repudiated by any person and cannot be the subject of the commerce of man.
• Universality of human rights 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.
• Minority Group Rights protect ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities.
• Indivisibility and Interdependence of human rights mean that the first generation of liberty rights and the second generation of equality rights are inter-related and are co-equal in importance; form an indivisible whole and only if these rights are guaranteed that an individual can live decently and in dignity.