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Assignment:

Instruction: Below is how we could practice a human right based approach. Explain inyour ownwords the statements below and the importance of it and give examples particularly in the Philippines.

(Format could be: explanation, importance, example.)

1. Development agencies can apply a rights-based approach in their programming by first analyzing the situation or problem from a holistic human rights perspective. This means that it must be measured against the full range of human rights standards and obligations. Relevant rights (including gender equality) must be identified, and steps that will lead to the fulfillment of these rights are to be built into the project design.

2. Rights-based projects could involve community mobilization, legislative and administrative measures, policy planning and implementation, law enforcement, resource allocation and education. The effective participation of those who will be impacted by the program is essential in design, implementation and stages in the project. Right themselves are used as the indicators of the project and success measured in terms of the extent to which the rights are guaranteed and protected.

3. Guaranteeing rights requires resources. A rights-based approach can be used in national gender budget initiatives as a basic framework for analysis and as the basis for recommendations to the government on the allocation of funds in the national budget. A rights approach requires governments to prioritize their resources in accordance with stated human rights principles and obligations. Women therefore, can demand actual resource commitments based on the requirements of guaranteeing rights, for example, by reducing expenditures on the military, and increasing expenditures on maternal health care and gender sensitization of police forces.

4. While the primary responsibility for realizing human rights and women's rights rests on governments, their capacity to do so is affected by the policies of other actors. Donors and civil society can work together to focus on getting other institutions to accept their responsibility for protecting rights. Donors, civil society groups, and government ministries could forge alliances in an attempt to integrate the human rights framework into international financial institutions, and trade and investment bodies

5. Communities concerned that the development aid or relief supplies coming into their country are not reaching those most denied their human rights, or concerned that aid (or the conditions attached to that aid) or trade (and policies for trade liberalization) are having negative effects on their rights, can seek solidarity with their partners in donor countries and around the world to change these policies and programs. Direct action campaigns based on the international human rights framework could be initiated to redress distributional justice issues.

II. Explain the statements below and give examples.

1. Universality, Non-Discrimination and Equality: Human rights are acquired at birth and belong to all human beings. Human rights are inclusive and prioritize the most vulnerable, marginalized and excluded. Gender equality is fundamental to rights-based approaches.

2. Accountability: Human rights recognize people as active subjects and claim-holders, establishing duties and obligations on others to ensure that needs are met. Duty-holders are held accountable for their actions, or lack of actions.

3..Rule of Law: Rights are protected by national and/or international law. Any disputes about rights are to be resolved not through an arbitrary process but through adjudication by competent, impartial and independent processes that will ensure full equality and fairness to all parties, and determine questions in accordance with clear principles. The rule of law ensures that no one is above the law and that there is no impunity for human rights violations.