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WHAT IS HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION?A New Tool for Learning, Action, and Change

The Right to Know Your Rights

Human Rights Education in the United States

The UN Decade for Human Rights Education

What Is Human Rights Education?

Human Rights Education

“Human rights education is all learning that develops the

knowledge, skills, and values of human rights.”

Human Rights EducationA New Tool for Learning, Action, and Change

Growing recognition of the potential of the human rights framework to effect social change and the importance of human rights awareness for all segments of society.


The Right to Know Your Rights

The mandate for human rights education is unequivocal: you have a human right to know your rights


Human Rights Education in the United States

declares a commitment to those human rights promotes democratic principles

helps to develop the communication skills and informed critical thinking essential to a democracy

engages the heart as well as the mindaffirms the interdependence of the human family


The UN Decade for Human Rights EducationThe strengthening of respect for human rights

and fundamental freedoms;The full development of the human personality

and the sense of its dignity;The promotion of understanding, tolerance,

gender equality, and friendship among all nations, indigenous peoples and racial, national, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups;

The enabling of all persons to participate effectively in a free society;

The furtherance of the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace."

The Plan of Action for the Decade further defines 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

What is Human Rights Education?

How can you be a good Educator of Human Rights?

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Human Rights Education and the United NationsHuman rights education history Human rights education at schools

Human rights education uses in the 21st century

Human rights education models

Children’s rights education


& the United Nations

“Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.”--------Article 26.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

UNESCO has a responsibility to promote human rights education, and was a key organizer of the UN's Decade for Human Rights Education UNESCO attempts to promote human rights education through:

•Development of national and local capacities for human rights education, through its co-operation in development projects and programs at national and sub-regional levels.

• Elaboration of learning materials and publications and their translation and adaptation in national and local languages.

• Advocacy and Networking Activities.

Human Rights Education History

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1953

1974

General Assembly

UNESCO Associated Schools Program

Education for International Understanding, Cooperation and Peace, and Education Relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Human Rights Education History

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1995

International Congress on the Teaching of Humans Rights

World Conference on Human Rights

Human Rights Education began

Human Rights Education at Schools

Human Rights is an academic subject containing units on:

•The theory of human rights

•The practice of human rights

•Contemporary human rights issues

Human rights education uses in the 21st century

As a strategy for development (Clarence Dias)As empowerment (Garth Meintjes)As a way of change for women’s rights

(Dorota Gierycz)As a legal prospective and for law enforcement

(Edy Kaufman)


Values and awareness Model

Accountability Model

Transformational Model


Values and awareness Model

“basic knowledge of human rights issues and to foster its integration into public values”


Accountability Model-associated with the legal and political approach to human rights in which the learners which the model targets are already involved via professional roles.-incorporated by means of training and networking, covering topics such as court cases, codes of ethics, and how to deal with the media.


Transformational Model -effective are those including vulnerable populations and people with personal experiences effected by the topic, such as women and minorities-geared towards recognizing the abuse of human rights but is also committed to preventing these abuses


The teaching and practice of children’s rights in schools and educational institutions, as informed by and consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.


Children's rights education is education where the rights of the child is taught and practiced in individual classrooms.

What is the importance of teaching human rights to PEOPLE in a Formal Education?

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Human rights in the Philippines

Extrajudicial killings Press freedom Freedom of expression

Freedom to travel

International human rights treaties


•Extrajudicial killingsThe military is implicated directly or indirectly in a significant number of deaths. Victims included trade unionists, farmers' rights activists, people from indigenous communities, lawyers, journalists, human rights campaigners and people of religion. (Alston, 2007)


•Press freedomIt indicates the continuing murders of journalists and increased legal harassment in the form of libel suits as part of the problem in the Philippines.


•Freedom of expression"Defamations laws should not ... stifle freedom of expression" "Penal defamation laws should include defense of truth."


"Libel – the unlawful or prohibited act as defined in Article 355 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, committed through a computer system or any other similar means which may be devised in the future."


•Freedom to travel

"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

International human rights treaties• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR);• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),

ratified on 23 October 1986;• United Nations Convention Against Torture, acceded to on 18 June

1986;• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial

Discrimination, ratified on 15 September 1967;• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

ratified on 7 June 1974;

International human rights treaties• United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All

Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, ratified on 5 July 1995;• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination

Against Women, ratified on 5 August 1981;• Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified on 21 August 1990;

and,• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified on

15 April 2008.

Give other rights exercised by the Filipino People. (at least 5)

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Other Human rights in the Philippines

Political Rights Individual’s participation in government or the political process

“Legal” Rights Rights that apply to individuals when subjected to the law and/or legal procedures and processes

Civil Rights Rights enjoyed to enable individuals to undertake the everyday business of life

Civil Rights Freedom of Speech Right to a Free Press Freedom of Assembly The Right of Petition Freedom to form Associations The right to Private Property Right to Privacy Freedom of Religion Liberty of Abode Right to Travel Right to Access to Information The right to due process of law The right to equity under the law The right to a speedy trial Freedom from political persecution Freedom from forced labor unless as punishment

arising from a conviction

Other Human rights in the Philippines

Miranda rights Right to Bail Right to due process of law in criminal

cases The right to confront one’s accusers Right against self incrimination Writ of Habeas Corpus Right against excessive fines Right to reasonable and humane

punishment Freedom from debtor’s prison Protection from retroactive laws

Good Citizenship

What is Good Citizenship?

Social Obligation Legal ObligationMoral Obligation

5 Ways to Become a Responsible Citizen

Duties of Responsible Citizens

•Good citizenship is sometimes viewed as requiring both intellectual skills (such as critical thinking) and participatory skills (such as deliberating civilly, monitoring the government, building coalitions, managing conflict peacefully and fairly, and petitioning, speaking or testifying before public bodies).


•A good citizen is one who properly fulfills his or her role as a citizen.•Theodore Roosevelt said, "The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight”



•Legal ObligationsNo one can be a responsible citizen without staying within the law. So to be a responsible citizen, we must respect these laws and abide by them. Harming others or others’ property does not equate to being a good citizen.


•Social ObligationsTo be a responsible citizen, we should help our communities and those who live in them. So, being a responsible citizen can encompass things such as volunteering.


•Moral ObligationsThe environmental problems society is facing are of our own making and we all have a moral obligation to do what we can to change this. So by living as environmentally friendly life as possible, we can help fulfil our moral obligations of being a responsible citizen.


Don’t disrespect your countryAgreed, not many things are right with our country - right from the education and health system to our politicians. However, it still doesn’t mean we talk ill about it. Do we talk ill about our family in front of others just because we are mad at them? No. Dissing or insulting our own country is like piling dirt on the plate you eat your food on. So as far as possible, let’s project a positive image about our country.


Follow rulesRules are there for a reason. If they weren’t in place, this planet would’ve become a jungle. Always ensure you follow rules; be it traffic rules on the road or filing your taxes or standing in a queue for movie tickets. Do things like they are to be done. If you follow rules, others might also start following them. It doesn’t mean you don’t question things when they don’t seem right, for example, if someone at the airport says it is a rule that you pay an airport tax before boarding your flight, you have the right to question them.


•Become more sensitiveIt is very important that we become more sensitive. Not only is it very important, it is also what makes us human. You don’t really have to go to a school to learn how to be sensitive. It is fairly easy. In trains and elevators, wait for the people inside to alight first; don’t honk on the road unless absolutely needed; keep your cell phones on silent mode in important places, like work or a bank, or a hospital. Say please and thank you often.


•Be helpfulIf you see someone needing help, on the road or anywhere else, don’t hesitate to help. Case in point, the Delhi gang-rape episode. Maybe if some passersby had taken her to the hospital earlier, it could have been possible to save her life. You never know when it could be one of your own. So whenever possible, reach out and try and help people. Even animals do, and they are supposed to be without feelings.


•Don’t litterThere have been a million public service messages on this issue and we still find people littering: throwing empty chocolate wrappers or juice cartons from cars; spitting; throwing cigarette butts, paper and what not. But how come when the same people go abroad, they are on their best behavior?


•Agreed, there won’t be a dustbin everywhere you go. So keep the trash with you until you return home and then dispose it. In case that is not possible, then find a corner where you can dump it. Don’t act like you own the place and throw it in the middle of the road.

Are you a Good Citizen of the PHILIPPINES? Why? What are the actions that you did to become a good citizen?

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