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 BUILDING IN CURRENT
DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES BOILS DOWN TO REITERATING A CERTAIN LOGIC OF THINKING THAT
SERVES THE HEGEMONIC AIMS OF THE PREVAILING DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM. HUMAN RIGHTS
LEARNING IS DIFFERENT.</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt">Human rights learning (HRL) is necessary, precisely because knowledge in traditional capacity
building in development work has been</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt"> much fragmented to the disciplinary realm. Conversely, HRL is about how
we conceive and carry out a critical and transformative learning experience for
HRL participants.<span style="color:blue"> </span><span style="color:black">The
question then is:</span><span style="color:blue"> </span>Which would these key
critical and transformative capacities that graduates will have at the end of
their learning be? A critical education for us means providing the tools to
change a society that is organized around relations of oppression and that
keeps generating inequality. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">HRL aims at participants taking home
competencies that bring about their active participation, their making a commitment
and their taking responsibility as dynamic and energetic social actors. Their
acquisition of not only knowledge, but
of human rights (HR) values is today an imperative. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span></p> <span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:-.15pt">HRL thus promotes the
political alignment of participants with their respective environments in a
clearly oriented way that results in social, organizational and communication
practices that have the potential to build a strong social movement that is
both critical and transformative.<span style="color:blue"> </span>In essence,
HRL promotes an alliance between participants and the already existing social
movement(s) in the area where they come from.</span><br><br>To read the full Readers, go to<br><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1Ee">http://wp.me/plAxa-1Ee</a> <br><br>Claudio<br><br>