2. Today’s Lesson
•Title: Human Rights
•Date:15/08/2022
•Aim: To develop an understanding of what human rights are,
analyze who is responsible for upholding human rights, apply the
concepts of human rights to your own lives.
3. Lesson
Starter
•Think of your rights as a
student or as a human
being.
•Write on a piece of paper
and put/paste it on the
“Human Rights Tree”.
Human Rights
Tree
4. Introduction
•Rights go hand in hand with responsibilities. When you have a
right, you also have a responsibility to respect that others have
that right.
•Human rights are the rights we have as human beings. They
belong to all of us, regardless of who we are or where we live, and
they cannot be taken away.
5. What are Human
Rights?
• Human rightsare rights inherent to all
human beings, regardless of race, sex,
nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or
any otherstatus. Human rights include the
right to life and liberty, freedomfrom
slavery and torture, freedomof opinion
and expression, the right to workand
education, and many more.
6. What are Human
Rights?
•We are all equally entitled to
our human rights without
discrimination. These rights
are all interrelated,
interdependent, and
indivisible
7. Who governs
it?
•The United Nations (UN) is
an organization founded to
promote worldwide
cooperation and to protect
human rights.
8. Universal
Declaration of
Human
Rights
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
was draftedby the UN Commission on Human Rights
chaired by, then first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. The
UDHR was adoptedby the 56 member nations (now
192) of the UN General Assembly on December 10,
1948.
• December 10this celebratedaroundthe world as
International Human Rights Day.
9. The 7 Substantive Rights
• 1. Right to Life.
• 2. Freedom from torture.
• 3. Freedom from slavery.
• 4. Right to a fair trial.
• 5. Freedom of speech.
• 6. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
• 7. Freedom of movement.
10. Right to Life
• The right to life is the essential right that a
human being has the right not to be killed
by another human being. The concept of a
right to life is central to debates on the
issues of abortion, capital punishment,
euthanasia, self defense and war
11. Freedom from
torture
• Torture has been used as a
method of political re-
education, interrogation,
punishment, and coercion.
• We stand with survivors,
providing therapy and support,
and fighting for change
together.
12. Freedom
from
slavery
• The right to freedom from slavery prohibits people from
being held in conditions in which the powers attaching
to the right of ownership are exercised.
• No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and
the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
13. Right to
a fair
trial
• When a person is charged with a crime, or involved
in some other legal dispute, they have the right to a
fair trial. This means a fairand public hearing,
within a reasonable time, by an independent and
impartial court.
14. Freedom of
speech
• 'Freedom of speech is the right to seek,
receive andimpart information andideas of
all kinds, by any means. ' Freedom of speech
and the right to freedom of expression
applies to ideas of all kinds including those
that may be deeply offensive.
15. Freedom of thought,
conscience and religion
•Everyone has the right to freedom of
thought, conscience, and religion; this right
includes freedom to change his religion or
belief, and freedom, either alone or in
community with others and in public or
private, to manifest his religion or belief in
teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
16. Freedom of
movement
• Freedom of movement asserts that a citizen of a
state in which that citizen is present has the
liberty to travel, reside in, and/or work in any part
of the state where one pleases within the limits of
respect for the liberty and rights of others, and to
leave that state and return at any time.
17. Human
rights in
Islam • Human rights in Islam are firmly rooted in the belief
that God, and God alone, is the Law Giver and the
Source of all human rights. Due to their Divine origin,
no ruler, government, assembly, or authority can
curtail or violate in any way the human rights
conferred by God, nor can they be surrendered.
18. INTRODUCTION:
The first thing that we find in Islam in this connection is that it lays down
some rights for man as a human being. In other words, it means that
every man whether he belongs to this country or that, whether he is a
believer or unbeliever, whether he lives in some forest or is found in some
desert is a human being, which should be recognized by every Muslim. In
fact, it will be his duty to fulfill these obligations.
19. The Right to Life
The first and the foremost basic right is the right to live and respect
human life. The Holy Quran lies down: Whosoever kills a human being
without (any reason like) manslaughter, or corruption on earth, it is as
though he had killed all mankind.
20. The Right to the Safety of Life
•Islam's position on life is that it is a sacred trust from God. No
human being is permitted to take the life of another, unless it is
for justice administered by a competent court following due
process of law.
21. The Right to a Basic Standard of Life
•The right to an adequate standard of living requires, at a
minimum, that everyone shall enjoy the necessary subsistence
rights: adequate food and nutrition, clothing, housing and the
necessary conditions of care when required.
22. Individual's Right to Freedom
• Every individual and every people has the inalienable right to freedom
in all its forms: physical, cultural, economic and political — and shall
be entitled to struggle by all available means against any infringement
or abrogation of this right; and every oppressed individual or people has
a legitimate claim to the support of other individuals and/or peoples in
such a struggle.
23. Right to Co-Operate and
Not to Co-Operate
• This means that the man who undertakes noble and righteous work, irrespective
of the fact whether he is living at the North Pole or the South Pole, has the right
to expect support and active co-operation from the Muslims. On the contrary, he
who perpetrates deeds of vice and aggression, even if he is our closest relation or
neighbor, does not have the right to win our support and help in the name of
race, country, language, or nationality, nor should he have the expectation that
Muslims will co-operate with him or support him.
24. Equality of Human Beings
• The Quran states that all humans are the descendants of one man Adam
andare therefore brothers to one another.
• Islam declares complete equality among all mankind, regardless of one's
faith, skin color, language, gender, or ethnic background. The whole
universe is the dominion of almighty Allah and all the people are his
creatures. Everyone is born equal and will die equal.
