With the Collaboration of: Centro de Derechos económicos y Sociales (Ecuador), DECA Equipo Pueblo (México), Social Watch y Terra de Direitos (Brasil)
With the support of: People's world relief and Development Fund of the Anglican Church de Canada (PWRDF), Interchurch Organization for Development Co-operation (ICCO) and Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For the third time, it is being organized this programme in Latin America, with the objective of equipping selected participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to integrate human rights in their daily work. The programme is aimed at activists from social and economic justice movements and at those working directly with persons living in poverty. The programme will bring together "catalysts" from different countries of Latin America. These persons will be in a position to spread knowledge and skills they have acquired from the programme and to introduce/implement what they have acquired within their own organisations or environment.
Summary of the programme: This Regional Linking & Learning Programme is organized with the conviction that a human rights framework by empowering the poor and their movements will contribute to establishing the primacy of dignity of individuals over trade and markets and ensure adoption of effective policies and programmes by governments for eradication of poverty.
The Programme, through and overall analysis of Economic, Social and Cultural Right, argues for a global vision of Human Rights (universality, interdependence and indivisibility of all Human Rights) and its intrinsic connection with Development, since Human rights provide a moral, authoritative and a legal framework to tackle root causes of poverty - the deep rooted structures of discrimination - the global processes of impoverishment. A human rights framework has the "potential" to deal with not only legal justice, the primary preoccupation of human rights NGOs, but also economic, social and cultural justice which is central to development work.
In 2005 took place the first Learning Programme on ESC Rights for the Latin American region, organized by Dignity International and Social Watch, with the collaboration of COHRE Americas Programme and Equipo Pueblo (Mexico). This programme took place in Uruguay and was born from repeated demands of Latin American organizations and movements on previous years. Bearing in mind the success of the 2005 programme, in November 2006, the second Learning Programme on ESC Rights for the Latin American Region took place en Quito, Ecuador, with Centro de Derechos Económicos y Sociales (CDES - Ecuador), joining the initial group of organisers as the host organisation.
The extremely positive evaluation of the participants together with the astonishing amount of applications received (in 2 years, approximately 400 applications for 25 places each programme) clearly show the need of such a programme and frankly legitimate its continuation.
Information Document | Application Form (only in Spanish)
Documents also available for download at Dignity International If you have difficulties accessing the documents from the website and would like the documents to be sent via e-mail, please send a mail to: cursodesc@cohre.org
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 4 OCTOBER 2007
