According to Aspect of Life

ECONOMIC
CIVIL
AND
SOCIAL
RIGHTS
RIGHTS

POLITIC CULTUR
AL
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RIGHTS RIGHTS

1. Civil Rights
Rights which the law will enforce at the
instance of private individuals for the purpose
of securing to them the enjoyment of their
means of happiness
Partake of the nature of political rights
when they are utilized as a means to
participate in the government.

2. Political Rights
Rights
Examples
are:

which enable us to
participate
The right
of suffrage in running the affairs of
theto government
either directly or
The right
hold
public
office
indirectly
The right to petition
The rights appurtenant
to citizenship
Vis-a-vis the management
of government

3. Economic and Social Rights

Those which the law confers upon the
people to enable them to achieve social and
economic development.

4. Cultural Rights

Rights that ensure the well-being of the

individual and foster the preservation,
enrichment, and dynamic evolution of
national culture based on the principle of
unity in diversity in a climate of free artistic
and intellectual expression.

What then are cultural rights? Beneath the basic rights of man - the
right to life, the right to dignity and the right to develop ourselves lie our rights to our own culture.
The right to life
The right to dignity
The right to develop ourselves
Cultural rights are thus inalienably part of the rights of man. They
are also, therefore, part of the rights of a people to survival, to selfdetermination, and to development, because a people consists of
humans brought together as members of a society, formed by a
particular culture and history.

Categories of Human Rights

1.

Fundamental Freedom in Political Rights

i. Freedom of conscience and religion

ii. Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and

expression

iii. Freedom of the press and communication

iv. Freedom of association, freedom of peaceful

assembly

v.

Rights to privacy, reputation, and human

dignity

2. Democratic Rights

Commonly exercised in a democratic state

i. Right to vote and to participate in the electoral
process
ii. Right to participate in public or governmental
affairs

3. Mobility Rights
National and international in character
i. Right to travel
ii. Right to return to ones country
iii. Freedom of movement within the country

4. Right to Life, Liberty, and

Security of the Person
Represent the core of fundamental rights which relate to
the right to physical and personal integrity, consistent with
human dignity
i. Right to protection against political and other
extrajudicial killings, the disappearances of persons,
and torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment

5. Legal Rights
Constitute due process that can be invoked by
persons accused
i. Freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention
ii. Protection against unreasonable search and
seizure
iii. Right to counsel
iv. Right to fair and public trial
v. Presumption of innocence
vi. Right against
self-incrimination

6. Rights of Equality
Also known as the right against discrimination
Everyone is equal before the law and is entitled to equal
protection or the equal benefit of the law
i. Protection against discrimination on the grounds of
sex, race, religion, ethnic origin, age, marital status,
and political and social condition