Práticas educativas em direitos humanos para o combate ao trabalho escravo contemporâneo: uma experiência do centro de defesa da vida e dos direitos humanos Carmen Bascarán (CDVDH/CB) em Açailândia/MA

Abstract

The present dissertation has as its object of study the Educational Practices in Human Rights to Combat Contemporary Slave Labor from the experiences and performance of the Carmen Bascarán Center for the Defense of Life and Human Rights (CDVDH/CB) in the municipality of Açailândia in the state of Maranhão. The objectives are: to dialogue about the concept of slavery and its disguises until the present day; to discuss the correlation between the defense of Human Rights and the fight against Contemporary Slave Labor in Brazil; to present the CDVDH/CB and its actions to fight Slave Labor in Maranhão. To achieve these, the research made use of bibliographic consultations emphasizing the socio-historical processes that attack human dignity through documentary research to collect statistical data from documents produced by Institutions that work in the fight against Slave Labor and in the defense of Human Rights such as CDVDH/CB, Pastoral da Terra, Repórter Brasil, interviews, conversation circles with the public served by the Community Centers for the Defense of Life and Human Rights in Vila Bom Jardim and Vila Ildemar as the locus of the research. As a method of investigation, I use action research, since the focus is on a contemporary phenomenon inserted in a social context, and because I believe that the production of knowledge takes place in a shared way, in the collective interactivity between the collaborators of the researched environment and the researcher. As a product of this work, the production of a Pedagogical Notebook, believing that through it, it is possible to contribute to the awareness process through information on Human Rights and the risks of Slave Labor and thus impact the subjects of the research locus as well as the community at large.