Youth and Adult Education and Human Rights

Abstract

This article discusses the importance of Youth and Adult Education (YAE) in rescuing the humanity of vulnerable sectors of society based on the theoretical background of Human Rights, liberating education, and national and international documents about YAE. For this intent, the text is divided into five parts: an introduction, in which the problem is presented; in the second section, a picture of school exclusion in contradiction to the right to formal education is presented; in the third section, Human Rights are related to liberating education; in the fourth section, the vision of the State and of sectors of society about to whom Human Rights should be directed is problematized; and, in the fifth section, the UAE's performance in some vulnerable sectors of society is punctuated. In the final considerations, it is considered that diversity cannot continue to be transformed into inequality, and for this, public policies to ensure fundamental rights are urgently needed.