Classwork Exercise and Series (Civic Education-JSS3): Protection OF Human Right

Protection of Human Right

Appropriate Steps to Human Right Protection

For people to enjoy their fundamental rights completely, the following steps must be taken:

Provision of Human Right Education: The citizen should be given appropriate human right education. This is because the only way people can avoid being deprived of their rights is to have adequate knowledge of their rights. There are two ways of doing this:
Public enlightenment: The National Orientation Agencies (NOA) has to keep the public well informed by sponsoring enlightenment programmes on the televisions and radio. They can also print the details of the rights in the form of handbills and posters after which they will distribute to the masses
Formal Education: The school should teach the pupils about human rights in various school subjects. School teachers are also to educate the students and pupils in their daily assembly briefing. When there is proper knowledge of these rights, no one will be deprived of it.
Making Laws that forbids Rights violation: Where laws do not exist, people cannot be blamed or punished for wrong actions, but where there is law people apply caution. Therefore laws that spell out the various rights and punishment attached to their violations should be made.
Prosecution of people who violate Right: After people have been well educated of their rights and punishment attached to the violations, anyone who therefore chooses to intimidate or denied other people of their right by using their affluence, power, or position should be prosecuted according to the law.

Test and Exercise

The means of providing human right education are these except (a) through public enlightenment (b) through public denial (c) through formal education (d) All of the above.
The following are the appropriate steps to protect human right except (a) Prosecution of people who violate right (b) provision of human right education (c) provision of illegal law (d) making laws that forbid right violation.
NOA stands for (a) National Orientation Agencies (b) Nigeria Organizing Agencies (b) Nigeria Offering Agency (d) Nationalization of Africans.
The means by which teachers teach students in a classroom about the awareness of their right is (a) public enlightenment (b) informal education (c) private enlightenment (d) formal education.
Human right need to be protected because it can be abused or denied. True/false.