Human Rights: meanings, controversies and horizons at the beginning of university education

Abstract

We are pleased to present the material that makes up this publication as part of the proposal prepared by the Faculty to receive its entrants. The experience that began seven years ago, when Panels on Human Rights were incorporated into the Nivelation Course programme with speakers specially invited to address these issues in a broad and pluralistic manner, is today reflected in the writing; through the various articles it collects and systematises contributions that are solidly based on knowledge and practices deployed in various academic areas, or that have emerged from the work of social organisations that are recognised for their careers and contributions in this field. Without a doubt, the fact that the problem of "human rights" is part of the content with which the studies are initiated constitutes an institutional definition of the social, academic and political sense with which this academic unit summons to transit the formation and to participate in the university life. It is an invitation to be part of a collective and open construction, developed over the years in the Faculty, around shared concerns within it and linked to those of other actors, movements and social organizations, with whom we walk towards the expansion of spaces for debate and concrete work, as active partners in the strengthening of rights and their social recognition.