Lesson 1

• Human dignity - core values which serves as the foundation for peace and development
• human dignity - it is a principle which recognizes the humanness of man; that man is endowed with rights and has certain human faculties to perfect or maximize.
• Human Rights - are the rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.
• Characteristics of human rights:

  • fundamental
  • inalienable
  • imprescriptible
  • invincible
  • inherent
  • universal
  • interdependent
• Human rights are inherent

  This means that we cannot be fully called human if are acting or treated otherwise.
• Human rights are fundamental


  without them the life and dignity of man will be meaningless
• Human rights are inalienable 


  It cannot be taken away from a person. No free individual can be legally tortured or hurt by anyone and can actually claim the rights of others.
• human rights are imprescriptible 


  Because they cannot be lost even by a ling passage of time. This means that even if a person has not asserted his/her rights for a long period of time, this does not take away one's human rights
• invincible


  because even if they have already been enjoyed before, one can still be enjoyed for the rest of one's life
• human rights are universal


  which means that all human have them
• Human rights are interdependent


  because the realization of these rights are dependent on each other. This means that one could not fully exercise one right when the others are being restricted or violated
• Kinds of human rights:

  • Economic
  • Social
  • Cultural rights
• Economic rights - the right to work in just and favorable conditions
• Social rights - the right to social protection, to an adequate standard of living and to the highest attainable standards of physical and mental well-being.
• Cultural rights - the right to education and the enjoyment of benefits of cultural freedom and scientific progress.
• United Nations - generally defined as those rights which are inherent in our nature and without which we cannot live as human beings
• CHR - the supreme inherent and inalienable rights to life, to dignity and to self-development. It is the essence of this rights that makes man human.
• Social justice - justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.
• Social justice and human rights have shared goal: human dignity, equally for all
• Social justice - It is a complex issue, is based on premise that all people are entitled to the same basic rights and freedoms as everybody else.
• Betty Reardon - "the achievement of positive conditions of human rights provide the foundation of nonviolent social order and greatly reduce the causes of armed conflict"
• Upholding human dignity is the center of the values system that we associate with social peace.
• Social justice -is a non-material indicator of human development
• People are the means and end of development