According To Aspect of Life: Civil Rights Politic AL Rights Cultur AL Rights
According To Aspect of Life: Civil Rights Politic AL Rights Cultur AL Rights
ECONOMIC
CIVIL
AND
SOCIAL
RIGHTS
RIGHTS
POLITIC CULTUR
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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
4. Cultural Rights
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.
v.
2. Democratic Rights
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
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