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THERAPEUTIC
MODALITIES (HUMAN RIGHTS) HUMAN RIGHTS ➢Those rights which are inherent in our nature and without which, we cannot live as human beings.
➢It allows us to develop and use our human
qualities, intelligence, talents and conscience and to satisfy our spiritual and other needs. CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
➢INHERENT - not granted by any person or authority
➢FUNDAMENTAL - without them, the life and dignity of man will be meaningless. ➢INALIENABLE - cannot be rightfully taken away from a free individual. Cannot be given away or be forfeited. ➢IMPRESCRIPTIBLE- cannot be lost even if man fails to use or assert them, even by a long passage of time. • INDIVISIBLE- Not capable of being divided. Cannot be denied even when other rights have already been enjoyed. • UNIVERSAL - It applies irrespective of one's origin, status, or condition or place where one lives. Rights can be enforced without national border. • INTERDEPENDENT - The fulfillment or exercise of one cannot be had without the realization of the other. THE THREE (3) CLASSIFICATION OF RIGHTS
1.Natural Rights - God-given rights,
acknowledged by everybody to be morally good. Unwritten, but prevail as norms of the society. 2. Constitutional Rights - Conferred and protected by the constitution and which cannot be modified or taken away by the law-making body. 3. Statutory Rights - Those rights which are provided by law promulgated by the law-making body. May be abolished by the body that created them STAGES OF HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Idealization- Notions about human rights start in
the realm of the ideas that reflect consciousness against oppression or inadequate performance of the State. 2. Positivism- Where the support for the ideas become strong, and thus incorporate into legal instruments. 3. Realization- When these rights are already being enjoyed by the citizens by the transformation of the social, economic, and political order. SOURCES AND FOUNDATIONS OF HUMANRIGHTS LAW
➢The 1987 Constitution The Constitution itself is a
source, and not only the Bill of Rights. ➢International Bill of Rights ➢Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) ➢International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7438
ANACT DEFINING CERTAIN RIGHTS OF PERSON
ARRESTED, DETAINED OR UNDER CUSTODIAL INVESTIGATION AS WELL AS THE DUTIES OF THE ARRESTING, DETAININGAND INVESTIGATING OFFICERS, AND PROVIDEING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF. RIGHTS OF PERSON UNDER CUSTODIAL INVESTIGATION Section 12, Article III of the 1987 Constitution The right to be informed of his rights ➢The right to remain silent and to be reminded that anything he says can and will be used against him ➢The right to an attorney or to counsel, preferably of his own choice; if not, one will be provided for him ➢Rights against torture, force, violence, threat, intimidation or any other means which may vitiate the free will of the person ➢Right against secret detention places, solitary, incommunicado, or other similar forms of detention Section 2. Rights of Persons Arrested, Detained or Under Custodial Investigation; Duties of Public Officers.-
a. Any person arrested detained or under custodial investigation
shall at all times be assisted by counsel. (independent and competent counsel) b. Any public officer or employee, or anyone acting under his order or his place, who arrests, detains or investigates any person for the commission of an offense shall inform the latter, in language known to and understood by him, of his rights to remain silent and to have competent and independent counsel, preferably of his own choice, who shall at all times be allowed to confer privately with the person arrested, detained or under custodial investigation. If such person cannot afford the services of his own counsel, he must be provided with a competent and independent counsel by the investigating officer. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7438
c. The custodial investigation report shall be reduced to writing by the investigating
officer, provided that before such report is signed, or thumb marked if the person arrested or detained does not know how to read and write, it shall be read and adequately explained to him by his counsel or by the assisting counsel provided by the investigating officer in the language or dialect known to such arrested or detained person, otherwise, such investigation report shall be null and void and of no effect whatsoever. d. Any extrajudicial confession made by a person arrested, detained or under custodial investigation shall be in writing and signed by such person in the presence of his counsel or in latter's absence, upon a valid waiver, and in the presence of any of any of the parents, elder brothers and sisters, his spouse, the municipal mayor, the municipal judge, district school supervisor, or priest or minister of the gospel as chosen by him; otherwise, such extrajudicial confession shall be inadmissible as evidence in any proceeding. e. Any waiver by a person arrested or detained under provisions of Article 125 of the Revised Penal Code, or under custodial investigation, shall be in writing and signed by such person in the presence of his counsel; otherwise, the waiver shall be null and void and of no effect.
f. Any person arrested or detained or under custodial investigation shall be
allowed visits by or conferences with any member of his immediate family, or any medical doctor or priest or religious minister chosen by him or by any member of his immediate family or by his counsel, or by any national non-governmental organization duly accredited by the Commission on Human rights of by any international non-governmental organization duly accredited by the Office of the President. The person’s “immediate family” shall include his or her spouse, finance or fiancée, parent or child, brother or sister, grandparent or grandchild, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece, and guardian or ward. As used in this Act, “custodial investigation” shall include the practice of issuing to a person who is investigated in connection with an offense he is suspected to have committed, without prejudice to the liability of the “inviting” officer for any violation of law.
Section 3. Assisting Counsel.- Assisting counsel is any lawyer,
except those directly affected by the case, those charged with conducting preliminary investigation of those charged with the prosecution of crimes.