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Morning
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Presenters:
Cainoy, April Joy D.
Delos Santos, Rhealein J.
HUMAN RIGHTS
EDUCATION
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the discussion, the
learners will be able to:
• Define the concept of human
rights education.
• To develop awareness among the
people about human rights.
Definition of Terms
Human Rights – those rights which applies to all every single person
simply. because he/she is a human being.
- are certain fundamental rights inherent to all human
beings; everyone has a right to have security for life and personal
properties, medical care, no threat to human dignity and self-respect
irrespective of one’s:
• Nationality
• Place of Residence
• Sex
• Ethnic Origin
• Religion
• Language
• Or any other status
All people are equality entitled to human rights without any discrimination.
Fundamental Human Rights
• The right to life
• The right to liberty and freedom
• The right to the pursuit of happiness
• The right to live your life free of discrimination
• The right to control what happens to your own body and to
make medical decisions for yourself
Fundamental Human Rights
• The right to freely exercise your religion and practice your religious
beliefs without fear of being prosecuted for your beliefs
• The right to be free from prejudice on the basis of race, gender,
national origin, color, age or sex
• The right to grow old
• The right to a fair trial and due process of the law
• The right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment
Fundamental Human Rights
• The right to be free from torture
• The right to be free from slavery
• The right to freedom of speech
• The right to freely associate with whomever you like and to join
groups of which you’d like to be a part.
• The right to freedom of thought
• The right not to be prosecuted from your thoughts
Definition of Terms
Education – is forming desirable, attitudes, values, skills,
understanding and interest.
WHAT IS HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION?
• Promotes democratic principles. It
examines human rights issues without bias
and from diverse perspectives through a
variety of educational practices.
• Engages the heart as well as the mind. It
challenges students to ask what human
rights to them personally and encourages
them to translate caring into informed,
• It promotes understanding of the complex glob forces that
create abuses, as well as the ways in which abuses can be
abolished and avoided.
• It provides multicultural and historical perspectives on the
universal struggle for justice and dignity.
• Is all learning that develops the knowledge, skills, and values
of human rights.
• Human rights education declares a commitment to those
human rights expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights of 1948 and the UN Covenants. It asserts the
responsibility to respect, protect, and promote the rights of all
people.
•The United Nations Decade for Human Rights
Education (1995-2004) has defined Human Rights
Education as “training, dissemination, and
information efforts aimed at the building of a
universal culture of human rights through the
imparting of knowledge and skills and the molding
of attitudes which are directed to:
•
•(a) The strengthening of respect for human rights
and fundamental freedoms;
•
•(b) The full development of the human
© The promotion of understanding, respect, gender
equality, and friendship among all nations, indigenous
peoples and racial, national, ethnic, religious and
linguistic groups; and
(d) The enabling of all persons to participate
effectively in a free society
Goals of Human Rights Education
- To help people understand
human rights, value human rights,
and take responsibility for
respecting, defending, and
promoting human rights.
- An important outcome of human rights
education is empowerment, a process through
which people and communities increase their
control of their own lives and the decisions
that affect them.
Human rights education teaches both about human
rights and for human rights.
Education about human rights provides people with
information about human rights. It includes
learning –
• about the inherent dignity of all people and their
right to be treated with respect
• about the history and continuing development of
human rights
• about human rights principles, such as tl
universality, indivisibility, and interdependence
of human rights
• about international law, like the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights or the Convention
on the Rights of the Child
• about the persons and agencies that are
responsible for promoting, protecting, and
respecting human rights
Education for human rights helps people feel th
importance of human rights, internalize human
rights values, and integrate them into the way they
live. These human rights values and attitudes
include –
• understanding the nature of human dignity and
respecting the dignity of others
• empathizing with those whose rights are violated
and feeling a sense of solidarity with them
• recognizing that the enjoyment of human rights
by all citizens is a precondition to a just and
humane society
• valuing non-violence and believing that
cooperation is better than conflict
Education for human rights also gives people sense
of responsibility for respecting and defending
human rights and empowers them through skills to
take appropriate action. These skills for action
include –
• developing critical understanding of life situations
• analyzing situations in moral terms
• realizing that unjust situations can be improved.
• realizing that unjust situations can be improved
• recognizing a personal and social stake in the
defense of human rights
• analyzing factors that cause human rights
violations
• knowing about and being able to use global,
regional, national, and local human rights
instruments and mechanisms for the protection of
human rights.
THANK
YOU!
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