This document provides an introduction to the human rights framework. It summarizes key human rights instruments established from 1945 to 1989, including the UN Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Geneva Conventions, and conventions on racial discrimination, women's rights, torture, and children's rights. It then discusses the core principles of human rights - that they are universal, inalienable, indivisible, and require accountability and participation to be realized fully. The document emphasizes that both duty bearers and rights holders have important roles to play in ensuring human rights are respected.

1. The Human
Rights
Framework
An Introduction
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Rosa Guinto
Facilitator, IFMSA Small Working Group on Health Inequities
Immediate Past President, Asian Medical Students’ Association-Philippines
Doctor of Medicine Class of 2012
University of the Philippines Manila

2. WHAT ARE
HUMAN
RIGHTS?

10. Key Human Rights Instruments
• 1945: UN Charter: peace, human rights, development
• 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• 1949: Geneva Conventions (International Humanitarian Law)
• 1965: Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial
Discrimination (CERD)
• 1966: Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• 1966: Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• 1979: Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
• 1984: Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)
• 1989: Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

11. Who among you can enjoy
human rights?

12. • Universal
All human beings have the same rights
everywhere all the time

13. Who among you cannot enjoy
human rights?

14. • Non-discrimination and special attention
to vulnerable groups

15. When did you start having
human rights?

16. • Inalienable
- Every human being is born with human
rights.
- Human rights cannot be taken away.
- Human rights cannot be given up.

17. Please state two or three
human rights

18. • Indivisible and interconnected
All rights are linked and have effects on
each other. If one right is denied, this has
an impact on other rights. One person’s
enjoyment of rights should not come as a
result of the suppression of others’ rights.

19. What is your role with respect to
how you will enjoy your rights?

20. • Participation
Human rights are greatly protected and
fully enjoyed only if people participate in
the process, assert their rights, and let
other people know about their rights as
well.

21. What happens when your
rights are violated?

22. • Accountability
The duty bearer is accountable to the
rights holder in ensuring that his/her rights
are being protected and enjoyed.

23. ACCOUNTABILITY & PARTICIPATION
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24. “I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your
right to say it.”
Voltaire

25. If people don’t know their own
rights, how will they ever respect
anyone else’s?
Bring human rights to life.
We can help.

26. Thank
You
Very
Much!