Towards Sustainable Development: Human Rights Education in the Training of Criminal Law Specialists

Authors

  • Darina Ortega León University of Oriente
  • María Elvira Batista Ojeda University of Oriente

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/REYD2021.1EXT.37695

Abstract

Education as human right, and its dimension within the sustainable development objectives, have found a convergent point in education in values, in what has been denominated education in rights. From this idea, it is promoted a human right respect culture, to which it ought be a contribution from all the education levels, including post degree. As a part of this aims, the post degree formation in criminal law specialization has a special significance, for the criminal law may be considered the area of most human right jeopardy. Therefore, is needed to form a well and vast knowledge professional, but also acting subjects of rights who promotes human dignity respect. Form this assumptions, we approach to the experience of the Criminal Law Specialists program of degree, developed in the Faculty Law of the University off the Oriente in Cuba, to evaluate if its conception and execution responds to education in human rights, as an expression of the education in values, and the transference of sustainable development objectives into the academic, professional and civil society.

Author Biographies

Darina Ortega León, University of Oriente

Profesora Titular de Derecho Procesal Penal y Criminología
Facultad de Derecho

María Elvira Batista Ojeda, University of Oriente

Professor of Criminal Procedural Law
Law School

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Published

2021-10-15 — Updated on 2022-02-14

How to Cite

Ortega León, D. ., & Batista Ojeda, M. E. (2022). Towards Sustainable Development: Human Rights Education in the Training of Criminal Law Specialists. Education and Law Review, (1 Extraordinario), 145–167. https://doi.org/10.1344/REYD2021.1EXT.37695

Issue

No. 1 Extraordinario (2021): Higher education, human rights and sustainable development goal No. 4 (Education) in the context of the internationalization of higher education

Section

Line 2. Education and human rights

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