HUMAN RIGHTS

• Human Rights


  Refers to the concept of human beings as having universal natural rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors such as ethnicity, nationality, and sex
• Characteristics of Human Rights

  • Inherent
  • Universal
  • Indivisible
  • Inalienable
• Types of Human Rights

  • Civil Rights
  • Political Rights
  • Economic Rights
  • Social Rights
  • Cultural Rights
• Civil Rights


  • Right to a name
  • Right to freedom from discrimination
  • Right to equality before the law
  • Right to public trial
  • Right to marry
  • Right to leave a country
• Political Rights


  • Right to vote
  • Right to freedom of expression
  • Right to free and periodic elections
• Economic Rights


  • Right to work
  • Right to own property
  • Right to adequate standard of living
• Social Rights


  • Right to social security
  • Right to social welfare
• Cultural Rights


  • Right to take part in the cultural life
  • Right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its application
• Human Rights Education entitles every woman, man, youth, and child to the human right to free and compulsory elementary education and to readily available forms of secondary and higher education
• Human Rights Education entitles every individual to freedom from discrimination in all areas and levels of education, and to equal access to continuing education and vocational training
• Human Rights Education entitles every individual to information about health, nutrition, reproduction, and family planning
• The human right to education is linked to other fundamental human rights

  Rights that are universal, indivisible, interconnected, and interdependent
• Other fundamental human rights

  • The human right to equality between men and women and to equal partnership in the family and society
  • The human right to work and receive wages that contribute to an adequate standard of living
  • The human right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief
  • The human right to an adequate standard of living
  • The human right to participate in shaping decisions and policies affecting one’s community, at the local, national and international levels
• Environment and Human Rights

  • All people should have the right to a generally satisfactory environment favorable to their development
  • The State shall protect and advance the right of the people to a balance and healthful ecology in accord with the rhythm and harmony of nature
• Peace and Conflict Transformation

  • Narrow definition of PEACE: absence of war, absence of terrorism, absence of direct or physical violence (domestic violence, child abuse, sexual harassment, etc.)
  • Broader definition of PEACE: state and process of well-being and security in which human rights are respected and basic human needs are met, defined holistically, absence of indirect structural violence (racism, sexism/gender biases, human rights violation, poverty, ecological imbalance, etc.)
  • PEACE: more than just the absence of war, realization of justice, not just the absence of conflict, creatively dealing with conflict, promoting well-being
• • Conflict is a product of our inherent differences and diversities. Thus, it is natural
  • Conflict is neither positive nor negative. It depends on how we approach it
  • Our approach to conflict is our choice and is determined by our conception of conflict
• Conflict Transformation


  Describes that conflict changes things and transforms relationships, prescribes the need to be aware of our conception of conflict, transform it, and manifest this transformation in our behavior and attitude, focuses on changing relationships from competition to cooperation
• Arms Control


  • Small arms and light weapons refer to weapons that can be carried by a single person, covers a wide range of weapons like pistols, machine guns, grenades, portable anti-tank systems, and mortars
• Small arms are weapons of mass destruction, killing hundreds of thousands of people each year, relatively cheap, highly portable, easily concealable, long-lasting, and easy to operate, making them easy to traffic illegally and use in violations of human rights, often sold illegally in exchange for hard currency or goods such as diamonds, drugs, or other contraband
• Small arms are particularly easy to traffic illegally and use in violations of human rights
• Items used in illegal exchange for small arms

  • Diamonds
  • Drugs
  • Other contraband
• Millions of small arms, the majority, are owned by civilians
• Violence Against Women
• Violence against women includes any threat or actual act, behavior, or practice
• Violence against women endangers and results in harm and suffering in the life, body, mind, dignity, and freedom of women
• Violence against women is rooted in the unequal status of women and men in society
• Violence against women systematically occurs in private and public life
• Forms of abuse against women and girls

  • Physical
  • Emotional
  • Financial
  • Sexual
• Abuses against women and girls violate their human rights including the right to life, dignity, freedom, and self-security, and their rights against cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment
• Every abused woman is a life destroyed. And every woman is a daughter, sister, mother, or wife and therefore a family affected
• The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights


  December 10, 1984
• Following the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and to disseminate it in schools and other educational institutions without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories
• Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • Right to Equality
  • Freedom from Discrimination
  • Right to Life, Liberty, personal Security
  • Freedom from Slavery
  • Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment
  • Right to Recognition as a Person before the Law
  • Right to Equality before the Law
  • Right to Remedy by Competent Tribunal
  • Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest and Exile
  • 10. Right to Fair Public Hearing
  • 11. Right to be Considered Innocent until Proven Guilty
  • 12. Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
  • 13. Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country
  • 14. Right to Asylum in other Countries from Persecution
  • 15. Right to a Nationality and the Freedom to Change It
  • 16. Right to Marriage and Family
  • 17. Right to Own property
  • 18. Freedom of Belief and Religion
  • 19. Freedom of Opinion and Information
  • 20. Right to Peaceful Assembly and Association
  • 21. Right to Participate in Government and in Free Elections
  • 22. Right to Social Security
  • 23. Right to Desirable Work and to Join Trade Unions
  • 24. Right to Rest and Leisure
  • 25. Right to Adequate Living Standard
  • 26. Right to Education
  • 27. Right to Participate in the Cultural Life of the Community
  • 28. Right to a Social Order that Articulates this Document
  • 29. Community Duties Essential to Free and Full Development
  • 30. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein