Rights attached to people are known as personal or individual rights and those attached to groups of individuals such as women, children, indigenous people and migrant workers are regarded as group rights. According to the evolution of human rights they are believed to be belonged to three generations. It is accepted that in the first generation civil and political rights were developed, in the second generation economic and cultural rights were developed and in the third generation group rights were developed. The basic classification of human rights consists of civil, political and cultural rights. Activity 4 Identifying civil, political and cultural rights • Divide the participants into four groups and discuss the following 1. Civil 2. Political 3. Economic and 4. Cultural rights. • Allocate 15 minutes to discuss whether they have space to enjoy them, or else, whether there are obstacles and if so, how such obstacles can be overcome. • Thereafter allow the summary of matters discussed to be presented through a group leader. • Explain the various rights belonging to those four categories based on facts presented at the discussion. Stress that those rights are inter-connected and that a right cannot be disregarded for another right although so categorized for the convenience of discussion. • Point out that these rights are possessed equally by both males and females as human beings and a number of fundamental rights have been ensured by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. • In terms of the evolution of Human Rights, civil and political rights are regarded as those won by the first generation, economic and cultural rights as those won by the second generation and group rights by the third generation. Activity 5 • Conduct a brief lecture: Human Rights protected by International Conventions and Charters using the following information. In 1948 the United Nations promulgated a Universal Declaration on Human Rights that can be accepted by every State, ethnic group as well as every human group, by collecting all laws, agreements and international definitions on civil, political and cultural rights scattered throughout the world. 104