Educação em Direitos Humanos e Acesso à Justiça: Uma experiência do Judiciário de Marcelândia, MT

Abstract

The purpose of the proposed study is to investigate the relevance of human rights education in promoting active citizenship and training people who are more understanding and tolerant of others, and who are interested in building a more just society; scrutinize whether human rights education is an effective instrument for mitigating problems related to access to justice, in the sense of access to a fair legal order, notably the inability of people to recognize their rights and to demand protection or reparation for those rights when necessary; as well as verifying whether cinema is an effective instrument for transmitting knowledge about human rights and raising students' awareness on this topic. With this aim in mind, in 2018 and 2019 a social project was carried out, The Judiciary goes to School, in the region of Marcelândia, MT, using cinema as an instrument of approximation and dialogue between judges and students, in order to help formal education in training children and adolescents about human rights and the need to exercise these rights, in addition to the indispensability of empathy and tolerance for a more just society. From the lived experience, the need arose to research the importance of educating high school students in human rights. To this end, we intend to resort to a bibliographical review and analysis of the experience in Marcelândia/MT.