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

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.