Human rights education : a textbook for criminal justice education students and law enforcers / Danilo L. Tancangco and Dioscoro C. Orlain Jr. --

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface i -- Acknowledgement iii -- Chapter I: Historical development of human rights 1 -- Chapter II: General nature and definition of human rights 13 -- Chapter III: Concepts of human rights education 23 -- Chapter IV: Theories in relation to human rights education 29 -- Chapter V: The Philippine bill of rights 39 -- Chapter VI: The international bill of human rights 63 -- Chapter VII: The international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (ICESR) 75 -- Chapter VIII: International covenant on civil and political protocol 95 -- Chapter IX: Human rights in the contemporary world 127 -- Chapter X: Islamic perspective on fundamental human rights 141 -- Chapter XI: Human rights in the Philippines 153 -- Bibliography 158 --

"A universal culture of human rights requires that people everywhere must learn this common language of humanity and realize in their daily lives. Eleanor Roosevelt's appeal for education about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is no less urgent decades later: Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere,. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. But to uphold their rights, such concerned citizens need first to know them. "Progress in the larger world," must start with human rights education in just those "small places, close to home." In 1991 the Human Rights Educators' Network of Amnesty International USA published a defining rationale for human rights education that reflected the expanding definition of the field: Human Rights Education declares a commitment to those human rights expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the UN Covenants, and the United State Bills of Rights." --