“Since 2008, based on the reflection of the Strenna of the then Rector Major, Fr Pascual Chávez Villanueva, we have dedicated ourselves to deepening the theme of the Preventive System and Human Rights. Our reference documents in the different areas of activity try to contemplate this combination. For this reason, I believe that we can contribute to the reformulation of the National Plan for Human Rights Education and, at the same time, we can deepen our theoretical-practical relationship to strengthen our educative and pastoral activity, " Sister Aparecida da Silva said.
This was the first meeting of a collaborative process that will also include other institutions, in an attempt to make the necessary updates to the National Plan for Human Rights Education, so that the document can represent and enclose the challenges of society in the new era.
Sister Silvia was assisted, during the meeting, by the team of "EQUILIBRIUM Consultoria" - the company in charge of providing advice to RSB on institutional and international issues - represented for the occasion by its CEO and Chief Analyst, Ricardo Lobato, and by Senior Consultant, Mariana Petruceli.
The RSB works daily to guarantee human rights. It has representatives in the main public bodies that deal with policies in Brazil, such as the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents and the National Council for Social Assistance. In addition to encouraging the participation of its Salesian and lay collaborators in these spaces, the RSB also takes on fundamental commitments that align its initiatives within its presences in the country. Among its commitments is the promotion of the human rights of children, adolescents and young people.
The Network also undertakes to affirm that only through young people will it be possible to build and maintain a society that behaves well, that recognizes the peculiar condition and promotes equal opportunities for the integral development of the new generations, conceived and supported by the Christian virtues and their active involvement as subjects of rights.
And Human Rights, as mentioned, are linked to the Preventive System. Much more than a pedagogical theory, the latter is the experiential framework of Salesian action, the educational model that the "Saint of the Young" wanted to build in the Church and in society for the good of countless generations of young people, of all times and in every corner of the world.
