NSTP MIDTERMS CONCEPTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS Flashcards
moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behavior and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law.
Human rights
*____________recognized around the world are declared by the United Nations through the **___________
*Basic human rights
** Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This declaration was held by __________________at the _____________ in Paris, France on ____________
United Nations General Assembly
** Palais de Chaillot
**10 December 1948.
How many human rights we’ve tackled?
30
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
- All human beings are free and equal.
Everyone is entitled to all rights and freedoms, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made based on the political, jurisdictional, or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs.
- No discrimination
Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
- Right to life
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
- No slavery
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
- Same right to use law.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
- No torture and inhuman treatment
All are ___________ and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation and against any incitement to such discrimination.
- Equal before the law
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
- Right to treated fair by court.
no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile
- No unfair detainment
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
- Right to trial
Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offense on account of any act or omission that did not constitute a penal offense, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed.
- Innocent until proven guilty.