Human rights as prime of a holistic sense of development education in a context of multiculturality

Abstract

African history and cultures are not known to the former European colonizing countries, nor to the countries
that have a high rate of African descent in their population, due to the slave trade, which in Brazil ended with
the “Eusébio de Queirós Law” of February 4, 1850. At present, the socioeconomic and cultural role of black men in the development of former slave societies is not reported in the official historiographies of these countries and the discourse of “race” remains as a justification of slavery and for the slave trade itself.
Globalization has increased the inequalities that already existed between rich and poor countries, as well as
inequalities within each society, with a high loss of values necessary for the primacy of peace, democracy,
the rule of law, social justice and human rights. The new generations will have to be formed in the context of
a broad sense of education for solidarity and development that makes economic progress and social welfare
possible, with respect for the right to be different in each society.