Diritti senza confini - Pedagogika

Pedagogika.it/2012/XVI_3/Diritti_senza_confini
Denied rights: education
In a period in which everyone invites us to duty we think it is necessary
not to forget rights. Rights that for us don’t even have the “taste of rights”
anymore, but that represent something far and unreachable for many people
around the world.
It would make sense, therefore, to think about that World in which people
still enjoy too few rights to afford “the luxury” to think about their own duties
as citizens and workers.
Being it too wide an issue to deal with properly in a dossier of Pedagogika.it, we
reduced the field to one of the many rights that are denied to children in the South
of the World: the right to education.
In spite of the Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
more than 100 million minors around the world don’t enjoy that right that
reads: “Education shall be directed to the full development of the human
personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental
freedoms”.
Particularly, for female world, women and girls education in developing
countries is fundamental to start paths leading them to be an active part in their
families and in the societies in which they live.
In this dossier of Pedagogika.it we would like to investigate how important
and effective are small realities in these settings and how ineffective big
non-governmental organizations are: central is the account of people who
have had personal experience in promoting the diffusion of an education for
everyone.
Equally important it’s the way in which, in our society, public education and
other educational setting live the responsibility to awake consciences and to educate
us to the social values of solidarity, justice and equity.
Dossier 9