Humanities Reflection

The 3 Human Rights events I researched about are the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). 
The treaties for the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16, 1966, and in force from March 23rd and January 3rd, 1976. The ICCPR commits its parties to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial; the ICESCR commits its parties to work toward the granting of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) to individuals, including labour rights and the right to health, the right to education and the right to have an adequate standard of living.
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. It came into force on 3 September 1981. This is a very important right because it establishes an agenda of action for putting an end to sex-based discrimination.
In my opinion, I think the ICCPR is the most important among the three, followed by the ICESR and the CEDAW. It is because the ICCPR includes the right to life, which is imperative to all of us, hence I prioritized it first; I put the ICESR second as it includes the rights to health and an adequate standard of living, which again are essential to us, thus my decision; last but not least, the CEDAW. I placed it third because even though it is important, it is not as imperative as the other two. If the ICCPR and ICESR were never adopted, people will be killing each other and life will be terrible for all of us. That is why I ranked them in this order.
In the group task, I performed the roles of the critical eye, coordinator and specialist. The critical eye because my friend and I were assigned to organise the class so that all of us had a part in the project, and we were able to do it in a quiet but efficient way; the coordinator as I distributed equal amount of work to the class and made sure they worked together properly; and lastly the specialist because when I was assigned to organise the class, I knew about the technical aspects of being a leader and was able to achieve the task.
Overall, I think this was a very good learning experience and hope we will be doing something like this again soon.