2. An individual’s human rights are the
attributes of his human person. They include:
1. The right to life, liberty and security of
person
2. Freedom of thought, religion and
expression;
3. Freedom of assembly, equality before the
law.
4. The right to adequate standard of living
and just working conditions;
5. Freedom for arbitrary arrest, detention or
exile
3. 6. Freedom of movement and residence within
the border of each state
7. The right to nationality
8. The right to marry and found a family
9. The right to own property
10. The right to take part in the government
11. The right to form and join trade union for
the protection of one’s own interests
12. The right to just and favorable
renumeration
13. The right to rest and leisure
14. The right to education
4. 15. The right to participate in the cultural life
of a community.
16. The right to seek and be granted asylum.
17. The right to social and international order.
5. Since the adoption of the Spanish
Constitution of 1812, the people of
Spain enjoyed:
6. 1. Freedom of speech
2. Freedom of the press
3. Freedom of the association
7. During the nineteenth century the
Spaniards struggled hard to secure
respect and recognition of their human
rights. The Filipinos could not
understand why the Spaniards who
fought for the sacred rights of men would
deny them the same rights. Sinibaldo
sympathized with the Filipinos and
expressed what they felt.
8. “Why do we fall into an anomaly, such as
combining our claim for liberty for
ourselves, and for our country, and our
wish to impose our law or remote people?
Why do we deny to others the benefit
which we desire for our fatherland?”
- Sinibaldo de Mas; Spanish economist
and diplomat
9. Rizal voiced the respect and recognition
of human rights as essential in promoting
harmony among people. His observations
and experiences prodded the Filipinos to
work for the recognition of these rights.
10. Neither obscurantism and fanaticism
nor oppression or superstitions ever bind
or have bound people. On the other hand,
liberty, rights and love group distinct
races around the same standard, one
aspiration, one destiny.
