Assignment.

Answer the following questions and keep them in your files

1. Define values
Values are basic and fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate attitudes or actions.
They help us to determine what is important to us. Values describe the personal
qualities we choose to embody to guide our actions; the sort of person we want to be; the
manner in which we treat ourselves and others, and our interaction with the world
around us. They provide the general guidelines for conduct.

2. Enumerate the kinds of values

 Personal values: values endorsed by an individual. For example, some people
regard family as their most important values, and structure their lives so that they
can spend more time with their family. Other people might value success instead,
and give less time to their families in order to achieve their goals.
 Moral values: values that help determine what is morally right or wrong, e.g.
freedom, fairness, equality, etc, well-being. Those which are used to evaluate
social institutions are sometimes also known as political values.
 Aesthetic values: values associated with the evaluation of artwork or beauty.

3. Find readings to understand the four NSTP Perspectives. Maka-Diyos, Maka tao,
Maka-bayan, and maka kalikasan)

4. Get a copy of the CEU Core Values

5. Enumerate CEEGA
Life Long Learner

• Learns and works independently as well as collaboratively

• Translates knowledge generated from research and other sources to improve quality of life

• Creates new ideas to better understand society

• Evaluates own thinking, behavior and spirituality for self-growth

Reflective and Creative Thinker

• Thinks critically and creatively

• Open-minded

• Solves problems systematically

• Loves and shows artistic sensibility

Caring and Trustworthy

• Values people and acts in unity with others

• Commits to social justice and principles of sustainability and respect for diversity

• Practices good stewardship and accountability

• Manifests social responsibility by helping improve conditions of those who have less in life
or circumstance

Proficient Communicator

• Articulates ideas clearly for varied purposes and audiences or diverse culture

• Listens attentively, engages in meaningful exchange and shares knowledge, values,

attitudes and intentions

• Utilizes effectively appropriate media and information technologies

Competent and Productive Professional

• Initiates and innovates better ways of doing things

• Promotes quality and productivity

6. What is your concepts of Human Rights

Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human
behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and
international law.

7. What is the provision of the Philippine Constitution, re: Human Rights

8. Section 17. (1) There is hereby created an independent office called the Commission
on Human Rights.

(2) The Commission shall be composed of a Chairman and four Members who must
be natural-born citizens of the Philippines and a majority of whom shall be members
of the Bar. The term of office and other qualifications and disabilities of the Members
of the Commission shall be provided by law.

(3) Until this Commission is constituted, the existing Presidential Committee on

Human Rights shall continue to exercise its present functions and powers.

(4) The approved annual appropriations of the Commission shall be automatically

and regularly released.

Section 18. The Commission on Human Rights shall have the following powers and
functions:

(1) Investigate, on its own or on complaint by any party, all forms of human rights
violations involving civil and political rights;

(2) Adopt its operational guidelines and rules of procedure, and cite for contempt for
violations thereof in accordance with the Rules of Court;

(3) Provide appropriate legal measures for the protection of human rights of all
persons within the Philippines, as well as Filipinos residing abroad, and provide for
 preventive measures and legal aid services to the underprivileged whose human
rights have been violated or need protection;

(4) Exercise visitorial powers over jails, prisons, or detention facilities;

(5) Establish a continuing program of research, education, and information to

enhance respect for the primacy of human rights;

(6) Recommend to Congress effective measures to promote human rights and to

provide for compensation to victims of violations of human rights, or their families;

(7) Monitor the Philippine Government’s compliance with international treaty

obligations on human rights;

(8) Grant immunity from prosecution to any person whose testimony or whose
possession of documents or other evidence is necessary or convenient to determine
the truth in any investigation conducted by it or under its authority;

(9) Request the assistance of any department, bureau, office, or agency in the
performance of its functions;

(10) Appoint its officers and employees in accordance with law; and

(11) Perform such other duties and functions as may be provided by law.

Section 19. The Congress may provide for other cases of violations of human rights
that should fall within the authority of the Commission, taking into account its
recommendations.

9. What is the human rights situation in the Philippines

The human rights crisis in the Philippines unleashed since President Rodrigo Duterte
took office in June 2016 deepened in 2018 as Duterte continued his murderous “war on
drugs” in the face of mounting international criticism. In March, Duterte announced
that the Philippines would withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)
“effective immediately” in response to the ICC’s move in February to launch a
preliminary examination of “drug war” killings to determine whether to open a full-blown
investigation. Duterte sought to silence his critics via various means. His most
prominent critic, Senator Leila de Lima, remained in detention on politically motivated
drug charges. In May, the Philippine Supreme Court took unprecedented action to
remove Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, apparent reprisal for her criticism of
Duterte’s “drug war” and other abusive policies. In September, Duterte revoked the
amnesty given to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, another Duterte critic, by the previous
administration for leading mutinies in 2003 and 2007 when he was a naval officer; in
October, a Manila court denied a Department of Justice petition to issue a warrant for
his arrest.
In November, in a rare triumph of accountability in the Philippines, a Manila court
found three police officers guilty for the murder of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos in
August 2017. The killing, which was caught on surveillance camera, sparked outrage
against the “drug war.” In September, a court in Bulacan province convicted ex-army
Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan and two other military men for the kidnapping and illegal
detention of Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan, two student activists who were
allegedly abducted, raped, and tortured by military agents in 2006. The two women
remain missing.

10. What is RA 9710 and Human Rights

The Magna Carta of Women is comprehensive women’s human rights law that seeks
to eliminate discrimination against women by recognizing, protecting, fulfilling and
promoting the rights of Filipino women, especially those in marginalized sector.

The Magna Carta of Women defines discrimination against women as:

• any gender-based distinction, exclusion, or restriction which has the effect or purpose
of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women, irrespective
of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and
fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field;
• any act or omission, including by law, policy, administrative measure, or practice, that
directly or indirectly excludes or restricts women in the recognition and promotion of
their rights and their access to and enjoyment of opportunities, benefits, or privileges;
• a measure or practice of general application that fails to provide for mechanisms to
offset or address sex or gender-based disadvantages or limitations of women, as a result
of which women are denied or restricted in the recognition and protection of their rights
and in their access to and enjoyment of opportunities, benefits, or privileges; or women,
more than men are shown to have suffered the greater adverse effects of those measures
or practices; and
• discrimination compounded by or intersecting with other grounds, status, or
condition, such as ethnicity, age, poverty, or religion.

All rights in the Philippine Constitution and those rights recognized under international
instruments duly signed and ratified by the Philippines, in consonance with Philippine
laws shall be rights of women under the Magna Carta of Women. These rights shall be
enjoyed without discrimination since the law prohibits discrimination against women,
whether done by public and private entities or individuals.

11. Define/discuss the following

11.1 Gender – It refers to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men
– such as norms, roles and relationships of and between groups of women and
men. It varies from society to society and can be changed. While most people
are born either male or female, they are taught appropriate norms and
behaviors – including how they should interact with others of the same or
opposite sex within households, communities and work places. When
individuals or groups do not “fit” established gender norms they often face
stigma, discriminatory practices or social exclusion – all of which adversely
affect health. It is important to be sensitive to different identities that do not
necessarily fit into binary male or female sex categories.

11.2 Gender Awareness -

Is an awareness of the differences in roles and relations between women and
men. It recognizes that the life experiences, expectations, and needs of women
and men are different.

11.3 Gender Sensitivity - is the way service providers treat male or female clients in
service delivery facilities and thus affects client willingness to seek services,
 continue to use services, and carry out the health behaviors advocated by the
services. This indicator also measures aspects of the services themselves (e.g.,
in the case of family planning (FP), whether a range of male as well as female
methods is offered).

11.4 Gender Responsive - Being gender-responsive means that rather than only
identify gender issues or work under the “the do not do harm” principle, a
process will substantially help to overcome historical gender biases—to “do
better,” so to speak—in order for women to truly engage and benefit from these
actions. In addition, gender-responsive planned actions should integrate
measures for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, foster
women’s inclusion and provide equal opportunities for women and men to
derive social and economic benefits. With this approach, women and men’s
concerns and experiences equally become fundamental elements in the design,
implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of natural resource-related
projects and policies.

11.5 Gender Roles - Gender roles are cultural and personal. They determine how
males and females should think, speak, dress, and interact within the context
of society. Learning plays a role in this process of shaping gender roles.
These gender schemas are deeply embedded cognitive frameworks regarding
what defines masculine and feminine. While various socializing agents—
parents, teachers, peers, movies, television, music, books, and religion—teach
and reinforce gender roles throughout the lifespan, parents probably exert the
greatest influence, especially on their very young offspring.

Gender roles adopted during childhood normally continue into adulthood. At

home, people have certain presumptions about decision‐making, child‐rearing
practices, financial responsibilities, and so forth. At work, people also have
presumptions about power, the division of labor, and organizational structures.
None of this is meant to imply that gender roles, in and of themselves, are good
or bad; they merely exist. Gender roles are realities in almost everyone's life.

11.6 Gender Ideology - Gender ideology refers to attitudes regarding the appropriate
roles, rights and responsibilities of men and women in society. Traditional
gender ideologies emphasizes the value of distinctive roles for women and men
where men fulfill their family roles through breadwinning activities and women
fulfill their roles through homemaker and parenting activities.
Gender ideology also refers to societal beliefs that legitimate gender inequality.
Gender ideology is not a variable that ranges from liberal to conservative
instead it refers to specific type of belief those that support gender
stratification.