SYLLABUS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

FACULTY : Atty. Anita Magbitang-Chauhan, Ph,D

Law Course No ________
FIRST SEMESTER SY 2016 -2017

Course Title : HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Course Description :

This course provides a rich content on human rights systems of protection and promotion at the international ,
regional and national level with emphasis on the Philippine system. It starts with a clear understanding of the
normative content of human rights, its principles and classifications . Much discussion shall be focused on
applications of human rights in different fields of development and governance, business, environment . It also
covers discussions on rights of sectors and the international standards in the fields of enforcement of state
obligations and individual responsibilities for the continuing advocacy in curbing state impunity and human
rights violations . The law students shall be walked through hard and soft laws on human rights at the
international level and the means by which human rights are monitored as well as national human rights/ human
rights related laws.The students will be engaged in actual human rights advocacy and case law study on human
rights at the international and national levels.

II. Course Objectives

This course will enrich the minds and hearts of law students as it aims to do the following :

1. Familiarize the students on a broad and deep study of human rights and their enforcement at the international
and national levels;

2. Engage the students in meaningful participation in actual human rights work and advocacy.

3. Gain comprehensive knowledge and skills in human rights investigation and information and education

4. Develop a strong commitment to become a human rights defender and advocate.

III. COURSE CONTENT
CONTENT and ACTIVITY ASSIGNMENT REFERENCE/
Modules Materials
1. GENERAL
Group
Assignment :
Compile at least
one You
Tube/Scribd/
Other On Line
Video/ Power
Point
Presentation Per
Module in a CD
ROM

MODULE I
INTRODUCTION TO
HUMAN RIGHTS
1. History of Viewing: PPT on the module
Human Rights Story of Introduction to Human
Human Rights by Atty. Anita
Rights MChauhan
2. Definition and Lecture
Classification of ppt No.1
Human Rights and
3. Characteristics discussion
of Human Rights
4. Generation of
Human Rights
5. Principles of
Human Rights
6. Human Rights
Obligations
MODULE 2. Group written www.ohchr.com and
SYSTEMS OF reporting other human rights
HUMAN RIGHTS websites and articles
PROTECTION
A. Universal : You Tube
United Nations viewing of
System The UN
1.UN Charter Treaty
Body
2. UN Organs System
and
discussion
3. Charter Based Lecture
System ppt No.2
and
3.1. Human discussion
Rights Council The UN
(HRC) and Charter
Universal Periodic Based
Review (UPR) System of
3.2. HRC Human
Complaints Rights
Procedure Promotion
3.3. Special and
Procedures of the Protection
HRC
4. Treaty Based Lecture
System ppt No.3
4.1.Core and
International discussion
Human Rights The UN
Treaties Treaty
4.2. Ratification Based
Status and System of
Reservations by Human
the Philippine Rights
State Promotion
4.3. Reporting and
Status of the Protection
Philippine State
4.4. Human
Rights Standards
under General
Comments of
Treaty Bodies
4.5. Group
Jurispundence on Assignment :
Communications Prepare an oral
brought before report and submit
Treaty Bodies a written one on a
from the complaint/commu
Philippines nication brought
before one of the
treaty bodies by
any complainant
whether
individual/institut
ional on
 violations
committed by
agents of the
Philippine State.
B. Regional : Lecture WEBsites of Regional
1. European ppt No.4 Systems
System and
2. Inter-American discussion
System The
3. African System Regional
4. ASEAN Human Systems of
Rights Mechanism Human
5. Others Rights
(Arabs,etc) Promotion
and
Protection

C. National Human Lecture Visit to CHR PCHR Website
Rights Systems ppt No. 5 Regional Office 3
1. National Human and
Rights Institutions discussion
(NHRIs) The
2. The Philippine National
Human Rights Systems of
System of Human Human
Rights Protection Rights
and Promotion Promotion
3. The Philippine and
Commission on Protection
Human Rights
4. Human Rights (Philippine
Violations Specific)
Investigation :
Procedures and
Standards
MODULE 3 : Group Group UN Fact Sheets
HUMAN RIGHTS Reporting Assignment and Websites of OHCR and
OF SECTORS and on Reporting: other HR websites
Human Rights Selected Submit a List of ILO, UNICEF,ICRC and
Laws for Their Sectors International other specialized
Protection at the Treaties and Soft international agencies;
International and laws and Philippine law websites
National Level Philippine Laws
(Philippine Laws that promote one
as Focus) of the sectors
1. Women listed under this
2. Children module. Each law
3. Migrants should be
4.Persons with described briefly
Disabilities as to its salient
5. Indigenous features
People (substantive and
6. Cultural remedial content)
Minority
7. Internally
Displaced Persons
and Refugees
8. Human Rights
Defenders
9. Elderly
10. Prisoners and
Detainees
11. Workers and
Laborers
12. Urban
Poor/Homeless
MODULE 4 HUMAN
RIGHTS
APPLICATIONS
1. The Human Lecture UNFPA HRBA Manual
Rights to PPT NO. 6 HRBA in Google and
Development and and other search engines
Governance Based Discussion Socorro Diokna s HRBA
Approach on Guide
(HRBADG) HRBADG 2008 Ruggie Report on
1.1. The Right To Business and Human
Development Rights
1.2. Principles of [PDF]Human Rights
HR Applied to Standards and Practice
Development and for the Police - ohchr
Governance [PDF]Human Rights and
1.3. HRBA in Law Enforcement - ohchr
Planning and [PDF]International
Programming Human Rights Standards
2. Human Round Group for Law Enforcement -
Rights ,Business Table Assignment : Five ohchr
and Corporate Discussion groups of the [PDF]independence and
Social on the class will invite at impartiality of judges,
Responsibility Topic : least five sectoral prosecutors and
(CSR) Human representatives lawyers ...
3. Human Rights Rights and to attend the [PDF]international
and The Police Your round table human rights law and the
4. Human Rights Sector discussion role of the legal ... -
and the Military presided by the ohchr
5. Human Rights Professor and www.ohchr.org/document
and Judges, participated in by s/publications/training9c
Prosecutors and the NGO sector. hapter1en.pdf
Lawyers [PDF]Human Rights in the
6. Human Rights Administration of Justice
and Politicians A Facilitator's ... - ohchr
www.ohchr.org/Document
s/Publications/HRAdminis
trationJustice.pdf
A Manual on Human
Rights for Judges,
Prosecutors and Lawyers
hrlibrary.umn.edu/monito
ring/hradmin.html
Special Rapporteur on
the Independence of
Judges and Lawyers
www.ohchr.org OHCHR
English Your Human
Rights
Ms. Mnica Pinto, Special
Rapporteur on the
Independence of Judges
and Lawyers In 1994, the
Commission on Human
Rights, in resolution
1994/41, noting ...
[PDF]Human-rights law
and military operations
Human Rights and the
 Military: Legal Rules -
JStor
[PDF]The Philippine
Corrections System:
Current Situation and
Issues
[PDF]A STUDY ON THE
EFFECTIVITY OF THE
PHILIPPINE PRISON

Standard Minimum Rules

for the Treatment of
Prisoners - ohchr
[PDF]A Human Rights
Approach to Prison
Management -
International ...
www.prisonstudies.org/si
tes/default/files/resource
s/.../handbook_2nd_ed_en
g_8.pdf
[PDF]Prison Incident
Management Handbook
https://www.un.org/.../Pri
son_Incident_Managemen
t_Handbook_OROLSI_Mar
2013

Business and Human

Rights :
1.The 2008 Ruggie Report: A
Framework for Business and
Human Rights
2. John Gerald Ruggie,
Business and Human Rights
The Evolving International
Agenda
3. UN Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights
4. Human Rights and
Responsible Business Practices
Frequently Asked Questions
5. A Guide for Business: How
to Develop a Human Rights
Policy
6. A Resource Guide to
Corporate Human Rights
Reporting

MODULE 5 HUMAN Class Group Human Rights Tactics

RIGHTS ISSUES, Discussion Assignment : New Tactics in Human
CHALLENGES AND on the ADVOCACY or Rightshttp://www.newtactics.org
ADVOCACY topics of SURVEY The Justiciability of Social
the module 1. Conduct a
and Economic Rights: An
1. Human Rights survey using
Education and purposive
Updated Appraisal
Resource Page on Justiciability
Advocacy sampling on a
of Economic, Social and
2. Human Rights particular chosen Cultural Rights (ESCR)
Treaty, Law and legal issue JUSTICIABILITY OF
Policy Compliance approved by the ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND
and Enforcement professor or CULTURAL RIGHTS
3. Human Rights 2. Organize a
Standards and Human Rights RELEVANT CASE LAW
Justiciability Education Forum Shivani Verma
(HREF) targeting How Is International
a particular Human Rights Law
sector on a theme Enforced? Harold Hongju
approved by the Koh Yale Law School
professor within Human Rights Enforcement
the semester Mechanisms of the United
3. Arrange and Nations
conduct a radio Human Rights and Law
broadcast or Enforcement
media conference HUMAN RIGHTS
agreed upon ENFORCEMENT IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Period of Douglas Donoho
Undertaking : Any The Growing Relevance
day within the and Enforceability of
Human Rights Corporate Human Rights
Week Celebration Responsibility
David Scheffer
The Key Human Rights
Challenge: Developing
Enforcement Mechanisms
Harvard Human Rights Journal,
Spring 2002
03/01/2002
by Terry Collingsworth
Harvard Human Rights Journal,
Spring 2002, p.183

CULMINATI
ON DAY
:Dec
10,2016
(Internatio
nal Human
Rights
Day)
Celebratio
n

IV. COURSE REQUIREMENTS

To pass this course, the student must be able to undertake the following :
1. COURSE EXAM.,..30%
2. Group Work and HR Research .. 25%
3. Oral Presentation/Recitation..20%
4. ADVOCACY.. 25%
TOTAL100 %