This document discusses human rights education. It defines human rights education as all learning that develops knowledge, skills and values of human rights. It explains that human rights education grew in recognition as a tool for social change and increasing awareness of rights for all. The document outlines that the UN declared a decade for human rights education to strengthen respect for human rights and promote understanding between groups. It discusses models of human rights education including values and awareness, accountability, and transformational models. The importance of teaching human rights and citizenship in formal education is also addressed.

1. Education
on
Human Rights
and
Good Citizenship

2. v

4. What Is Human Rights
Education?

5. “Human rights education is all learning
that develops the
knowledge, skills, and values of human
rights.”

6. A 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.

7. The Right to Know Your Rights
The mandate for human rights
education is unequivocal: you have a
human right to know your rights

8. 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 mind
affirms the interdependence of the human family

9. The UN Decade for Human Rights Education
The 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

10. What is Human Rights Education?
How can you be a good Educator of
Human Rights?
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13. “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

14. 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:

15. •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.

16. • Elaboration of learning materials and
publications and their translation and
adaptation in national and local
languages.
• Advocacy and Networking Activities.

17. 1948
1953
1974
General Assembly
UNESCO Associated Schools Program
Education for International
Understanding, Cooperation and
Peace, and Education Relating to
Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms

18. 1978
1993
1995
International Congress on the
Teaching of Humans Rights
World Conference on Human Right
Human Rights Education began

19. Human Rights is an academic subject contain
•The theory of human rights
•The practice of human rights
•Contemporary human rights issues

20. 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

21.  Values and awareness M
 Accountability Model
Transformational Model

22.  Values and awareness M
“basic knowledge of human rights
issues and to foster its integration
into public values”

23.  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,

24. Transformational Mod
-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

25. 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.

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

27. What is the importance of teaching human
rights to PEOPLE in a Formal Education?
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29. •Extrajudicial killings
The 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)

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

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

32. "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."

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

34. • 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;

35. • 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.

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

37. 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

38. 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
 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

40. •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).

41. •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”

42. •Legal Obligations
No 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.

43. •Social Obligations
To 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.

44. •Moral Obligations
The 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.

45. Don’t disrespect your country
Agreed, 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.

46. Follow rules
Rules 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.

47. •Become more sensitive
It 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.

48. •Be helpful
If 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.

49. •Don’t litter
There 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?

50. •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.

51. 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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