According to Aspect of Life

1. Civil Rights

Rights which the law will enforce at the instance of private individuals for the purpose of securing to them the enjoyment of their means of happiness

Partake of the nature of political rights when they are utilized as a means to participate in the government.

2. Political Rights

Rights which enable us to participate in running the affairs of the government either directly or indirectly

3. Economic and Social Rights

Those which the law confers upon the people to enable them to achieve social and economic development.4. Cultural Rights

Rights that ensure the well-being of the individual and foster the preservation, enrichment, and dynamic evolution of national culture based on the principle of unity in diversity in a climate of free artistic and intellectual expression.What then are cultural rights? Beneath the basic rights of man - the right to life, the right to dignity and the right to develop ourselves - lie our rights to our own culture.

The right to life

The right to dignity

The right to develop ourselves

Cultural rights are thus inalienably part of the rights of man. They are also, therefore, part of the rights of a people to survival, to self-determination, and to development, because a people consists of humans brought together as members of a society, formed by a particular culture and history.

Categories of Human Rights

1. Fundamental Freedom in Political Rights

i. Freedom of conscience and religion

ii. Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression

iii. Freedom of the press and communication

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iv. Freedom of association, freedom of peaceful assembly v. Rights to privacy, reputation, and human dignity2. Democratic Rights Commonly exercised in a democratic state

i. Right to vote and to participate in the electoral processii. Right to participate in public or governmental affairs3. Mobility Rights

National and international in character

i. Right to travel

ii. Right to return to ones country

iii. Freedom of movement within the country

4. Right to Life, Liberty, and Security of the Person

Represent the core of fundamental rights which relate to the right to physical and personal integrity, consistent with human dignity

i. Right to protection against political and other extrajudicial killings, the disappearances of persons, and torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment5. Legal Rights

Constitute due process that can be invoked by persons accused

i. Freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention

ii. Protection against unreasonable search and seizure

iii. Right to counsel

iv. Right to fair and public trial

v. Presumption of innocence

vi. Right against self-incrimination

6. Rights of Equality

Also known as the right against discrimination

Everyone is equal before the law and is entitled to equal protection or the equal benefit of the law

i. Protection against discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, religion, ethnic origin, age, marital status, and political and social condition

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS

CULTURAL RIGHTS

POLITICAL RIGHTS

CIVIL RIGHTS

Examples are:

The right of suffrage

The right to hold

public office

The right to petition

The rights appurtenant

to citizenship

Vis-a-vis the management

of government