The teaching of human rights and humanitarian law within the university

Abstract

The article, after validating the importance of human rights organizations and those of relatives of victims in Chile, and the enhancement of this issue in the governments of the “Concertación”, focuses in analyzing the role of universities on this issue, arguing the need for them to perform the noble task of training professionals citizens, this is, people with an education based on human rights. For that aim it focuses on transversal objectives and contents and postulates a new teaching method.