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By: Emmanuel T. Agazon & Mark Gabriel T. Unicruz

Human rights are rights that belong to all of us simply because we are human. They embody values in our society such as fairness, dignity, equality, and respect. They are the means of protection for us all. It helps to strengthen our protections, give us our rights, give us a life that we deserve, and give us the voice we deserve.

The problem is, how do we value Human Rights Nowadays? What is the status of Human Rights in modern society? Why are there still people asking for justice, shouting, resisting, and help because their rights were unfollowed?. Should it be a top priority in modern society?

Cases of Human Rights violations are increasing nowadays as violated in different aspects endlessly. Human Rights nowadays are no longer valued and fail to protect their rights because we have these beliefs in our mind that if you are different from us, you do not belong, if you can not reach the top, you belong at the bottom, and if I don't like you I don't. As it happens nowadays, people will make everyone feel that they don't deserve to live. It looks like no one is doing any right and proper action to end it. Instead of stopping it, cases are increasing that we don't want it. We can't handle seeing those people treated unfairly, with no dignity, no equality, and respect.

The message of the Poster is that, let's uphold Human Rights because it recognizes the inherent value of each person, regardless of background, where we live, what we look like, what we think, or what we believe. Based on Principles of dignity, equality, and mutual respect, shared across cultures, religions, and philosophies. We don't want to hear or see anyone suffer any cases of violation anymore that it has to be a must that we should put it as a priority.

Source

https://humanrights.gov.au/about/what-are-human-rights

ESSAY: Emmanuel Agazon & Mark Unicruz
POSTER: Andrea Pergis

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By: Clifford P. Reyes & Andrea Denise M. Pergis

The three pillars of the responsibility to protect

Pillar I: The individual States carry the primary responsibility to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity (atrocity crimes) following their national and international obligations.

Pillar II: The international community has a parallel responsibility to encourage and assist States to fulfill their responsibility

Pillar III: If a State is manifestly failing to protect its population, the international community must be prepared to take collective action, using appropriate diplomatic, political, humanitarian, and – if necessary – military means, to protect populations from these crimes, by following per under the Charter of the United Nations.

Everyone would agree that international human rights standards are the foundation of R2P. States protect their populations from the worst atrocities based on international human rights precepts. We must not allow political and ideological differences to distract us from paying sufficient attention to signs of increased risk, and taking early action to prevent atrocity crimes from occurring, resulting in uncountable preventable deaths.

The poster says that even though, where on earth we belong, what status in our society, we have the rights and responsibility to be protected in any situation. These three pillars can cover us if someone violated one's human rights or our human rights.

We need to recognize that we have a responsibility to protect ourselves, our neighbors, and the wider international community, not only because it is a moral duty, and a collective commitment, but perhaps more importantly, because of our shared humanity.

Source

https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/responsibility-protect-and-human-rights

ESSAY: Clifford Reyes & Andrea Pergis
POSTER: Andrea Pergis

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By: Mark Gabriel T. Unicruz & Andrea Denise M. Pergis

Katherine Johnson an African-American woman working in NASA gives a speech about how she has to go half a mile just to use the bathroom because of the lack of colored bathrooms in the building she works in and how she isn't being treated equally.

We develop our racial stereotypes in a variety of ways. On a very simple level, it’s human nature to categorize people. It’s our way of making a complex world simpler. Any negative experiences that we have with a member of a particular group will strengthen our racial stereotypes and create fears about particular races. Based on our fears, we develop an us-versus-them mentality that tends to be self-protective. As a result, we miss opportunities to learn and thrive from our differences. Gender bias is behavior that shows favoritism toward one gender over another. Most often, gender bias is the act of favoring men and/or boys over women and/or girls.

Almost every day, there's at least one story in the news that involves racism, sexism, or another kind of bigotry. But when you hear those stories, do you think, "Well, that's not me"? Turns out, even among the best-intentioned people, unconscious biases can exist.

As we gain more awareness and knowledge, not only will our racial stereotypes and gender bias lessen, but we will also become better equipped to educate and challenge others about their racial stereotypes and gender bias. As we change ourselves, we can elicit changes in others through our examples and the quality of our conversations. In doing this, we work to create a society in which all races are valued, appreciated, and embraced.

Sources

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/03/13/biases-racism-sexism-psychology

https://ucc.nd.edu/self-help/multicultural-awareness/overcoming-stereotypes/

ESSAY: Mark Unicruz & Andrea Pergis
VIDEO: Youtube

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By: Gabriel D. Monzon & Meilanehl G. Sabordo

Environmental rights are human rights, as people's livelihoods, their health, and sometimes their very existence depends upon the quality of and their access to the surrounding environment as well as the recognition of their rights to information, participation, security, and redress.

About the poster, failing to protect our environment will give a lot of damage to everyone, like what's happening in our country nowadays. We failed to take care of our surroundings which are very concerning today, especially to those people who are near to this environment that has been destroyed.

All human beings depend on the environment in which we live. A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is integral to the full enjoyment of a wide range of human rights, including the rights to life, health, food, water, and sanitation. Without a healthy environment, we are unable to fulfill our aspirations. Recognizing a human right to a healthy environment could give local people a better chance of opposing development that threatens the nature around them.

It's very important to protect our environment because as we protect our surroundings we can protect also human rights. Our environment is what houses and helps our ecosystem grow and thrive. Without protecting and taking care of our environment, we're putting so many lives in danger such as animals, plants and crops, and even our own. We believe in the importance of environmental and social rights, as well as the right to participate in decision-making and resist unwanted developments.

Sources

https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/responsibility-protect-and-human-rights

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Environment/SREnvironment/Pages/AboutHRandEnvironment.aspx

https://www.foei.org/what-we-do/environmental-rights-human-rights?fbclid=IwAR2Gly5qpvshte1gOHvgfsje-s3p_DTyalR0bhQ-3QBvET2EzDh3n5bRYmI

https://www.humanrights.is/en/human-rights-education-project/human-rights-concepts-ideas-and-fora/human-rights-in-relation-to-other-topics/human-rights-and-the-environment?fbclid=IwAR3QrMFkD4YyB8jMyX4DV_aMGI857wo7KRgcRx-R0KAbLa_rBYyMQdJUyV8

ESSAY: Gabriel Monzon & Meilanehl Sabordo
POSTER: Andrea Pergis

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By: Joshua Andrei D. Dalay & Bernard Casey B. Sergio

Origin of the Human Rights Timeline

The Cyrus Cylinder (539 B.C.) - The armies of Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, conquered the city of Babylon. But it was his next actions that marked a major advance for Man. He freed the slaves, declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality. These and other decrees were recorded on a baked-clay cylinder in the Akkadian language with cuneiform script. Known today as the Cyrus Cylinder, this ancient record has now been recognized as the world’s first charter of human rights.

The Spread of Human Rights - From Babylon, the idea of human rights spread quickly to India, Greece and eventually Rome. There the concept of “natural law” arose, in observation of the fact that people tended to follow certain unwritten laws in the course of life, and Roman law was based on rational ideas derived from the nature of things.

The Magna Carta (1215) - The Magna Carta, or “Great Charter,” was arguably the most significant early influence on the extensive historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today in the English-speaking world. In 1215, after King John of England violated a number of ancient laws and customs by which England had been governed, his subjects forced him to sign the Magna Carta, which enumerates what later came to be thought of as human rights.

Petition of Right (1628) - The Petition of Right, produced in 1628 by the English Parliament and sent to Charles I as a statement of civil liberties. The Petition of Right, initiated by Sir Edward Coke, was based upon earlier statutes and charters and asserted four principles: No taxes may be levied without consent of Parliament, No subject may be imprisoned without cause shown, No soldiers may be quartered upon the citizenry, and Martial law may not be used in time of peace.

United States Declaration of Independence (1776) - On July 4, 1776, the United States Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. Its primary author, Thomas Jefferson, wrote the Declaration as a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, and as a statement announcing that the thirteen American Colonies were no longer a part of the British Empire. Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in several forms. It was initially published as a printed broadsheet that was widely distributed and read to the public.

The Constitution of the United States of America (1787) and Bill of Rights (1791) - The Constitution of the United States of America is the fundamental law of the US federal system of government and the landmark document of the Western world. It is the oldest written national constitution in use and defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens. The Bill of Rights protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, the freedom of assembly and the freedom to petition. It also prohibits unreasonable search and seizure, cruel and unusual punishment and compelled self-incrimination.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) - The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted by the National Constituent Assembly as the first step toward writing a constitution for the Republic of France. The Declaration proclaims that all citizens are to be guaranteed the rights of “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. The Declaration sees law as an “expression of the general will“, intended to promote this equality of rights and to forbid “only actions harmful to the society.”

The First Geneva Convention (1864) - The diplomatic conference was held for the purpose of adopting a convention for the treatment of wounded soldiers in combat. The main principles laid down in the Convention and maintained by the later Geneva Conventions provided for the obligation to extend care without discrimination to wounded and sick military personnel and respect for and marking of medical personnel transports and equipment with the distinctive sign of the red cross on a white background.

The United Nations (1945) - In April 1945, delegates from fifty countries met in San Francisco full of optimism and hope. The goal of the United Nations Conference on International Organization was to fashion an international body to promote peace and prevent future wars. The ideals of the organization were stated in the preamble to its proposed charter: “We the peoples of the United Nations are determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.”

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses basic rights and opportunities for all. The General Assembly of the United Nations demonstrate the Declaration on 10 December 1948. It announces that human rights are universal to be appreciated by all individuals, regardless of what their identity is or where they reside. It was declared on December 10, 1948. By the general assembly of the united nation. The universal declaration was made for the people to freely choose their personal rights such as freedom and equality. There are numerous articles about this which is all human beings are born free and equal and everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the security of the person.

Human rights are the rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world from birth until death. These rights-based are on shared values such as fairness, dignity, equality, and respect. They are means to protect us all. Nowadays, society is all run by money, but human rights are still important to us. When it comes to abuse and isolation, these rights give us power and enable us to speak up and challenge poor treatment from a public authority. Human rights are must be valued because every person has a right to themselves that people must respect.

Source

https://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/brief-history/the-united-nations.html

ESSAY: Joshua Dalay & Bernard Sergio
TIMELINE: Andrea Pergis