[hr-education] Re: Follow-up to the Decade at the regional level

Queridos todos y todas,

I am not blaming anybody but ourselves, the fact is that in the last week
discussion on local and national level activities that might follow-up to
the Decade for Human Rights Education no observations and recommendations
were made by members from Latin America. In addition, when the moderators
challenge us to discuss this week on what can be done at the sub-regional,
the examples that are given are from South East Asia or Central Europe. No
mention of Latin America.

What should be done in this part of the world, that as a matter of fact
was one of the first to start in the eighties programs on HRE, inspired by
Paolo Freire's popular education concept, is first of all to strengthen
our Latin American network and build an American coalition. We should not
forget that we belong to the same continent. A few years ago I presented
to the Ford Foundation a plan to create an American Association on HRE. I
wasn't successful. We should try again.

Let me say that much is been done in the region on HRE in each country in
Latin America, however, in my opinion, we are weak on three different but
complementary aspects:

- Governments should be more active and committed to HRE. I have the
feeling that there are other priorities or the governments are "afraid"  
to introduce HRE as a central part of the curriculum.

- Our Latin American and International networks should became much more
organic. We are isolated from the rest of the world (it can be language
barriers).

- We are lacking resources. Poverty is our common and permanent situation.
The money that exists is distributed very badly. Inequity and injustice
prevail.


Abraham Magendzo K
Santiago, Chile
E-mail: abrahamm@manquehue.net



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