Políticas afirmativas em direitos humanos no ensino superior latino-americano: estratégias contra as violências institucionais

Abstract

This work presents the following question: how can affirmative human rights policies in Latin American higher education institutions meet the needs identified by their student body, considering the spread of violence against social minorities in their spaces? The general objective of this article is to understand about the institutional legal apparatus related to human rights and what strategies are used in these universities to combat institutional violence against minorities within the universities themselves. To analyze the role of human rights education in the defense, elaboration of strategies to face the conservative and hegemonic forces that have attacked diversity. The research is characterized by being exploratory and qualitative. As research techniques, initially bibliographic research will be carried out in Brazilian and international literature, mainly from Latin America and documentary research. The data resulting from the bibliographic and documental research were organized, coded, categorized and analyzed according to their content, tending to produce inferences about the themes. In theory, it is argued that strategies should be designed with the aim of guaranteeing and/or preventing the rights of social inclusion made possible through affirmative actions developed within universities, to be maintained for the benefit of the Democratic State of Rights itself.