Cultural Rights as Human Rights
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CULTURAL RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS
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 is not only the right to be alive, but to live as one wishes, as one sees
fit. Like a Manobo, you have the right to live as how you wish to live your life.
The right to dignity is the right to the regard of one's fellow man, and therefore of
one's cultural community. It is the right to live and work, to survive and produce. Like
a Badjao fisherman, or an Ilongo weaver.
The right to develop ourselves assumes a development of what we are, of what our
culture made us, within the context of our families, towns, and nation. It is the right to
learn and grow as a Butuanon law student, or a Tausug doctor, each developing the
particular cultural traits and gifts that make him Butuanon or Tausug and a Filipino.
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.
Source: http://www.crvp.org/book/series03/iii-7/chapter_ix.htm
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 is not only the right to be alive, but to live as one wishes, as one sees
fit. Like a Manobo, you have the right to live as how you wish to live your life.
The right to dignity is the right to the regard of one's fellow man, and therefore of
one's cultural community. It is the right to live and work, to survive and produce. Like
a Badjao fisherman, or an Ilongo weaver.
The right to develop ourselves assumes a development of what we are, of what our
culture made us, within the context of our families, towns, and nation. It is the right to
learn and grow as a Butuanon law student, or a Tausug doctor, each developing the
particular cultural traits and gifts that make him Butuanon or Tausug and a Filipino.
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.
Source: http://www.crvp.org/book/series03/iii-7/chapter_ix.htm
