MIDTERM Flashcards
It are rights INHERENT TO ALL HUMAN BEINGS, regardless of race nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.
Human Rights
It is include the RIGHT TO LIFE AND LIBERTY, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression the right to work and education, and many more.
Human Rights
It is generally defined as those rights which are INHERENT IN OUR NATURE and without which, we cannot live as human beings.
Human Rights
It is the branch of public law that deals with the BODY OF RULES, rules, procedures, and institutions designed to respect.
Human Rights Law
This means that different human rights are intrinsically connected and CANNOT BE VIEWED in isolation from each other.
Human rights are indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated
This means that you cannot
lose them, because they are LINKED TO VERY FACT OF HUMAN existence, they are inherent to all human beings.
Inherent
What are the Basic Characteristics of Human Rights?
A.Inherent
B.Human rights are indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated
C.Human rights are universal
D.Human rights as imprescriptible
E.Human rights are inalienable
It means human rights CANNOT BE LOST even if the person fails to assert them. It does not expire even by long passage of time.
Human rights as imprescriptible
Which means that they APPLY EQUAL TO ALL PEOPLE everywhere in the world, and with no time limit.
Human rights are universal
It does NOT EXPIRE even by long passage of time.
Human rights as imprescriptible
It means that Human rights CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY from an individual nor be given away, transferred or forfeited.
Human rights are inalienable
Other characteristics Of Human Rights?
A.Human rights are essential and necessary
B.Human rights limits state power
It is Human rights is important to UPLIFT THE MORAL of the people and necessary to fulfill the purpose of human life.
Human rights are essential and necessary
It such as the state bears the DUTY TO OBSERVE and respect human rights
Human rights limits state power
Duty bearers MEANS
Duty to respect the life of others
What are the classifications of Human Rights?
A. According to Source
B. According to recipient
C. According to aspect of life
D. According to struggle for recognition
According to Source:
- Natural Right
- Constitutional
- Statutory
It is Based on ONES DIGNITY as Human Person.
Natural Right
It is UNWRITTEN
Natural Right
It is Outlined in the CONSTITUTIONS bill of rights.
Constitutional
It is PROVIDED for by law
Statutory
right to life, right to liberty. It is example of?
Individual Right
It is the Rights APPLICABLE TO INDIVIDUAL
Individual Right
It is the Rights that can be enjoyed ONLY IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS.
Collective/Group/Solitary Rights
It is the Rights ENJOYED BY INDIVIDUAL to undertake the everyday business of life.
Collective/Group/Solitary Rights
According to Recipient:
- Individual Right
- Collective/Group/Solitary Rights
According to aspect of life:
- Civil Right
- Political Right
- Economic, Social and Cultural Right
It is the Right to ENVIRONMENT, right to peaceably assemble.
Civil Right
It pertains to individual’s participation in the GOVERNMENT.
Political Right
These are privileges that individuals and communities required to HAVE A DECENT LIFE.
Economic, Social and Cultural Right
Right to adequate food, right to adequate housing. right to education, right to health. It is example of?
Economic, Social and Cultural Right
According to struggle for recognition:
- First Generation of Rights
- Second Generation of Rights
- Third Generation of Rights
Encompasses an individual’s CIVIL AND POLITICAL rights.
First Generation of Rights
Encompasses SOCIO ECONOMIC right.
Second Generation of Rights
Encompasses BOARD CALSSES rights.
Third Generation of Rights
Such at rights of INDIGENOUS PEOPLE and religious minorities
Third Generation of Rights
What are the THEORIES advanced as the sources of human rights?
A. Religious or theological approach
B. Natural Law
C. Positivist
D. Marxist
E. Functional or sociological approach
F. Utilitarian Theory
G. Theory based on Justice
H. Theory based on Equality and Respect
The conduct of men must always conform to the LAW OF NATURE, and this theory is detached from religion
Natural Law
It is doctrine of a Supreme Being, the creator, the FATHER OF ALL HUMANITY
Religious or theological approach
It states that all rights and authority COME FROM THE STATE and what - officials have promulgated
Positivist
It emphasizes the interst of society over an individual’s INTEREST COMMUNISM
Marxist
human rights exist as a means of social control, that human rights exist to serve the SOCIAL INTERESTS OF SOCIETY
Functional or sociological approach
When the Functional or sociological approach developed?
early 20th century
It is principle that requires government to MAXIMIZE THE TOTAL NET SUM of citizens.
Utilitarian Theory
It emphasizes that an individual CANNOT BE MORE IMPORTANT than the entire group
Utilitarian Theory
each person has EQUAL RIGHTS to the whole system of liberties
Theory based on Justice
The general conception of justice is one of FAIRNESS and those social primary goods such as opportunity, income and wealth and self-respect are to be distributed equally.
Theory based on Justice
The government must TREAT ALL THEIR CITIZEN EQUALLY and must intervene in order to advance the general welfare.
Theory based on Equality and Respect
The first generation is known as the?
first generation of civil and political rights
The second generation is known as the?
second generation of economic social and cultural rights
The third generation is known as the?
third generation of solidarity rights or collective rights
It include the ENSURING OF PEOPLE’ physical and mental integrity, rights like right to life and safety, protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, nationality
Civil rights
It include the rights that involve the participation of people in the establishment or ADMINISTRATION OF A GOVERNMENT or any other authority
Political rights
