Human Rights Flashcards
5 major rights
1) Personal Rights
2) Religious and Moral Rights
3) Social Rights
4) Economic Rights
5) Vocation Rights
Claims, titles or powers to:
Do, accomplish, possess or dispose of something to have dignified life
Human Rights
Law that encompasses the nature of human beings
Free, Relational, Historical, Unique yet fundamentally equal, Rational
Natural Law
Bu grounding our human rights ultimately on God, the Church provides us with incomparable contributions to our work for promoting human rights
Church’s View
Secondary to our natural human rights, they are derived from our human rights to:
Help, respect, protect and promote our dignity
Civil Rights
Under personal rights
1) Right to LIFE
2) Right to ONE’S PERSON
3) Right to ONE’S PERSONALITY
Under religious and moral rights
1) Right to EDUCATION
2) Right to CONSCIENCE
3) Right to RELIGION
Under social rights
1) Right to HONOR and RESPECT
2) Right to FREE EXPRESSION
3) Right to ORGANIZE
Economic Rights
1) Right to LIVELIHOOD
2) Right to PROPERTY
Vocation Rights
1) Right to CHOOSE ONE’S WAY OF LIFE
2) Right to MARRIAGE
This is the most fundamental right
Primary condition of all other human rights for the reason that only when persons are alive they can exercise their other rights
Right to Life
We have a right over our own bodies
God created us as embodied spirits to enable us to carry out our tasks in the physical world
Right to one’s person
This is our right to develop our own individual character
Right to one’s personality
This is our right to avail of all possible means and opportunities to help us develop physically, intellectually, spiritually and socially
Right to Education
The right to follow that inner voice which help us judge what is morally good or evil
Right to Conscience
Our natural right to relate to God and to freely express and develop this relationship within the teachings and practices of our chosen religion
Right to Religion
Our right to acquire honor, which refers to credibility and esteem human persons in society
Right to Honor and Respect
Also known as Freedom of speech
Without these rights we could have dictatorship with all other rights surpressed
Right to Free Expression
Also an essential for a free society
Our right to form associations with common objectives whether they are religious,civic, economic, social or political
Right to Organise
Right to acquire work which is primarily where human persons gain the means to satisfy essential needs in life
Right to Livelihood
Our right to exclusive control over our own possession
Right to Property
Our right to choose our own character, vocation and status in life
Right to choose one’s way of life
Refers to the right of every person to seek a partner in life and enter a union. As long as the act is within the grounds of the law and dictates of natural law
Right to Marriage
Characteristics of Human rights
1) Inherent
2) Inviolable
3) Inalienable
