Human Rights Education

Human Rights Education in Latin America

by Vera Maria Candau, Rio de Janairo

Since the 1980s, projects in human rights education have proliferated in Latin America. The objective of this study is to examine the genesis of human rights education in the continent and the challenges faced by this movement today.

Human rights education has already blazed a path across the Latin American continent. Today’s challenge is to move forward while maintaining harmony with its founding passion: the historical commitment to structural change as a way to achieve an inclusive society and giving place to popular sectors as central social agents in this context.

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