José Manuel Lapera Casas – ACN.- Cuba will be represented through the Palomas Project at the award ceremony of the fifth edition of the Oscar Arnulfo Romero Ibero-American Prize for Human Rights Education, scheduled to be held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on September 4 and 5 of this year.
Sergio Cabrera Angulo, the project’s general coordinator, revealed that out of about two thousand institutions in the region, the jury chose Palomas to represent the largest Antilles.
According to the circulated call, it was decided to create a single category dedicated to non-formal education in the fifth edition of the Prize; in this way, nominations were received from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Therefore, the winners from each country in the region that participated in this competition will be invited to attend the 5th International Symposium on Human Rights Education, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro.
Through this space, participants will have the opportunity to socialize their projects and exchange experiences and good practices with their international peers.
One of the main axes of the Palomas Project is to contribute to the necessary journey towards the empowerment of people (with a focus on women, girls, boys, men and vulnerable people), starting from the philosophy of popular education, to activism.
The award recognizes the work of civil society organizations, educational institutions, companies, organizations and public institutions, whose non-formal educational initiatives aim to defend and promote human rights and full citizenship for all people in Latin America.
Under the motto “We achieve cooperation”, the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) has been since 1949 the first intergovernmental body for South-South cooperation in the Ibero-American space.
The organization currently has 23 member states, 19 national offices, and its General Secretariat in Madrid, Spain.
With more than 650 ongoing projects and more than 400 active agreements, the OEI represents one of the largest cooperation networks in Latin America and among its results is that it has contributed to a significant reduction in illiteracy in Latin America, with an average of more than 12 million direct beneficiaries on average over the past five years.
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