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    Dear Students, you are welcome to this unit; human rights and citizenship.
    Aim 

    This unit explains theories and characteristics of human rights; presents the history and classification of human rights; explores the mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights; gender and human rights; and finally discusses human rights in the context of Rwanda. 

    Intended learning outcomes 

    By the end of this unit, you should be able to: 

    1. Explain concept of human rights, its history, philosophic foundations, characteristics and categories; 
    2. Use the theories, characteristics, and classification of human rights to explain the human rights concept in practical way.

    3. Analyze critically the mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights and their effectiveness
    4. Evaluate the implementation of human rights in the context of gender, children, cultural and religious

    Teaching and learning activities/resources 

    You are required to read the notes and other reading materials on each sub-unit of unit 3 on human rights and citizenship education. You will be asked to either discuss the learning materials in forums, or attempt quizzes and do assignments.

    • Subunit 1: Theories, History, Characteristics, and and Classification of human rights Lesson
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      This sub unit aims at providing to you the required knowledge to understand human rights in comprehensive way as stated by unit learning outcomes 1 and 2:

      • Explain concept of human rights, its history, philosophic foundations, characteristics and categories; 
      • Use the theories, characteristics, and classification of human rights to explain the human rights concept in practical way.

      In this sub unit you are given various resources such as lecturer notes and you tube videos to support your learning and you are requested to explore them and participate actively in E-tivity 3.1.1

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      Dear students read the file within this folder carefully to understand human rights  help you to cover learning outcome 1and 2 and it will assist you to do E-tivity 3.1.1.

    • E-tivity 3.1,2; Understanding the human rights Forum
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      The purpose of this activity:
      This activity aims to help you to achieve Learning outcome 1 of this: Use the theories, characteristics, and classification of human rights to explain the human rights concept in practical way
      Description:
      Human rights have been defined as “the rights a person has simply because he or she is a human being. Furthermore it is commonly understood as basic values common to all cultures, and must be respected by countries worldwide. Some authors evaluate Human rights as held equally by every human being everywhere irrespective of their socio-economic status and therefore are universal. However, Human rights are still the contested concept despite the fact that these rights have been internationalized through the development of the UN system of human rights.

      An example is that Michael Freeman has rightly pointed out that “the Rights without reasons are vulnerable to denial and abuse”. So based characteristics of human rights discussed in this unit, comment on this statement?
      Do you agree with him or not?
      Whatever position you took about the statement, express yourself with clear scientific and evidence based data to explain your position and indicate the references you used to develop the assignment
      Instructions:
      Develop a report on your view of this theme and post it to this forum. Then comment on three posts of your colleagues’ posts assisting to convince you with more explanation.
      Your original post may be sent as file attachment or as an open text on platform.
      Supporting resources:

       
      International Justice Resources center; overview of the human rights framework 
       


      Check also Lecturer’ notes entitled:
      Sub unit1: Theories and Characteristics human rights
      Sub unit 2: History and classifications of human rights

    • Human rights in Rwanda Lesson
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      This sub unit aims to analyze and discuss the human rights in context of Rwanda. It will expose to you the mechanisms the government of has put in place to ensure the respect of human rights, protect and promote the human rights. In this section you will also requested to analyze and comments on reports of some international organizations on the implementations of human rights in Rwanda. So to achieve that you will be requested to participate in 2 types of learning activities; Online assignment and Forum discussion

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      Dear students this folder contains the important lecturer notes designed to help you understanding the human rights in Rwandan law and the mechanisms in place to protect and promote human rights in Rwanda including governmental institutions as well as non governmental such as UN system of human rights and others. 

      You are requested to explore them curiously it will help you to achieve unit learning outcome 3 and do the E-tivity 3.3.

    • E-tivity3.3; Reflective and analytical online assignment
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      Purpose: This E-tivity will help you achieve unit learning outcome 3 “Analyze critically the mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights and their effectiveness”

      Description: this E-tivity is composed of a couple of 5 questions to answered

      1. Read the section of human rights and freedom in The constitution of the Republic of Rwanda of 2003 with Amendments through 2015 Pp 12-16; 

      Classify the human rights prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda into given categories;

      1. Which ones are categorized into First generation, Second generation rights, and Third generation rights?
      2. Which ones are categorized into Classic Rights and Social Rights?

      2. Reflect on the situation of Genocide against Tutsi of 1994 and comment on human rights violation:

      • Which rights have been violated at time?
      • Use SWOT analysis system to identify the Community's Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats observed in term of respect, protection, enforcement and promotion of human rights

      3. Reflect and comment post Genocide resolution in term of restoring and enforcement of human rights;

      Which mechanisms have been put in place by Rwandan government or other organs to restore and reinforce human rights?

      4. Comment on Rwandan culture across the Rwandan historical background by identifying the issue of gender, vulnerable groups, religious and human rights (Male&Female and children rights)

      5. Check the United State Department of State (USDOS) (2020); Country Report on Human Rights Practices: Rwanda; Executive summary. The report that criticizes human rights crimes observed to be committed by public and security officials compared to the constitution and other laws in force. 

      a)      Evaluate this report critically and comment on each section of it.

      b)      Do you find that the observations of the report are right or wrong? Explain

      c)      What are the biases do you observe in the report such as emotions, falsification of facts or status without enough and convincing facts, etc

      d)     Compare this report with the other countries around the boundaries of Rwanda such as Burundi, DRC, Federal Republic of Tanzania,…..and one of Western countries in term respecting and protecting human is the stated Pillars of the report

    • Sub unit 3: Human rights and vulnerable groups Lesson
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      Dear students this sub unit is designed to help you dealing with the issues of vulnerable groups and protection of human rights. It will focus on learning outcome 4 of this unit "Evaluate the implementation of human rights in the context of gender, children, cultural and religious".

      It will expose you to the designed learning materials and at the end you are requested to participate actively in the survey that will indicate your achievement of this sub unity expectations 

    • Human rights and vulnerable groups Survey
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      Dear students this survey is aiming to evaluate your understanding of human rights issues in vulnerable groups such as children, women as well as the concerns of religion and human rights respect. It will demonstrate how you have achieved unit learning outcome 4"Evaluate the implementation of human rights in the context of gender, children, cultural and religious "

      Before participating in this survey, kindly check The constitution of the Republic of Rwanda of 2003 with Amendments through 2015 Pp 13 and 15;

      Read also lecturer note on:

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      This folder contains 2 files tha can help to cover unit learning outcome 4"....." and to attempt the E-tivity 3.4.

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