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Human Rights

1. Five Primary Categories of Human Rights: • Civil Rights • Political Rights • Economic Rights • Social Rights • Cultural Rights

2. Bellringer #1 View the list of Human Rights on Firefly, classify them in your notebook, which do you think are • Civil Rights • Political Rights • Economic Rights • Social Rights • Cultural Rights?

3. DEFINITION HUMAN RIGHTS is defined as the supreme, inherent, and inalienable rights to life, to dignity, and to self-development. It is concerned with issues in both areas of civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights founded on internationally accepted human rights obligations

4. Core Principles What are the Human Rights Principles? Human Dignity, Equality, Non-discrimination, Universality Interdependency, Indivisibility Inalienability, Responsibilities. The rights that someone has simply because he or she is a human being & born into this world .

5. HUMAN RIGHTS RIGHTS – moral power to hold (rights to life, nationality, own property, rest and leisure), to do (rights to marry, peaceful assembly, run for public office, education), to omit (freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment, freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention or exile) or to exact something (equal protection of the law, equal access to public service, equal pay for equal work)  HUMAN RIGHTS coined by Eleanor Roosevelt to replace Rights of Man  NATURE – Human rights are more than legal concepts: they are the essence of man. They are what make man human. That is why they are called human rights; deny them and you deny man’s humanity (Jose Diokno)

6. Characteristics of Human Rights Universal Internationally guaranteed Legally protected Protects individuals and groups Cannot be taken away Equal and indivisible Obliges States and State actors

7. Human Nature - A search for Common secular inquiry and human reason 400 B.C.E. est. - Mo Zi founded Mohist School of Moral Philosophy in China Importance of duty, self-sacrifice, and an all-embracing respect for others – “universally throughout the world” 300 B.C.E. est. – Chinese sage Mencious Wrote on the “human nature” – “humans are fundamentally good, but goodness needs to be nurtured” 300 B.C.E. est. – Hsun-tzu Asserted “to relieve anxiety and eradicate strife, nothing is a effective as the institution of corporate life based on a clear recognition of individual rights”

8. Human Nature

9. Human Nature with Spiritual/Religious Traditions

10. Natural Law

11. Precursors to 20 th century Human Rights Documents

12. 19th and 20th Century Human Rights based on Natural Rights

13. Legal basis - UN Charter

14. Legal Basis

15. Five Categories of Human Rights

16. Some Civil Rights

17. Some Political Rights

18. Some Economic Rights

19. Some Social Rights

20. Some Cultural Rights