What do we do? - Clade
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What do we do?

Through advocacy actions, interinstitutional coordination, strategic communication, research and social mobilization, CLADE seeks to promote the achievement of education from a human rights-based perspective, that meets the standards of availability, accessibility, acceptability and adaptability, acknowledging diversity, promoting citizenship and the realization of human rights, as well as eliminating all forms of discrimination.

In line with the Inter-American Democratic Charter, the campaign considers that strong democratic contexts are fundamental for the realization of human rights and to lead decent lives. In this sense, the campaign not only advocates to assert the human right to education and to achieve an education that guarantees rights, but also to strengthen democracies, where social participation is recognized as a right in itself and full active citizenship can be achieved.

CLADE’s quadrennial Strategic Plan is guided by key goals: to strengthen public education systems, to ensure inclusive education for all, to guarantee the right to education throughout life, to ensure conditions for the realization of the human right to education, to make the democratic political culture take firm root in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and to strengthen collective action for human rights.

Some of our main action areas are:

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EDUCATION 2030 AGENDA

We have participated actively in the debates and negotiations that shaped the outline and formulation of the Education 2030 Agenda to be fulfilled by UN Member States by 2030.

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PUBLIC AND FREE EDUCATION

With a view to strengthening public and free education as well as to secure its financing, CLADE has promoted debates, researches and the monitoring of public funding in different countries in the region.

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EMANCIPATORY EDUCATION THAT GUARANTEES RIGHTS

We reassert the role of an emancipatory and liberating education that guarantees rights to ensure critical thinking, instruction and learning.

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INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND NONDISCRIMINATION

We raise awareness of inequality, discrimination, racism and sexism inside and outside schools, advocating for their elimination and for the promotion of inclusive education.

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EDUCATION AND GENDER EQUALITY

We work to break down ideological, cultural and structural barriers to guarantee gender equality and the elimination of gender-based violence and discrimination in and from education.

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STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACIES

We defend social participation as a human right and we publicly denounce the criminalization of members of the education community, social movements and activists.

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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

We have promoted consultations with education communities, studies, debates and advocacy actions to acknowledge early childhood education as a human right in laws and policies.

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SECONDARY EDUCATION

We support and disseminate the demands and proposals from students and other members of the education community for the achievement of secondary education that guarantees rights.

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YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION

We defend this kind of education as a human right and we underscore its “structural, facilitating and essential” role in the implementation of the 2030 Development Agenda.

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REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS AND JUSTICIABILITY

We promote initiatives to make people aware that States must remedy human rights violations and citizens must own instruments and justiciability practices.

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LATIN AMERICAN AND GLOBAL ACTION WEEK FOR EDUCATION

This kind of mobilization is essential for democracies and to practice collective action, coordinated strategies and the combined expression of ideas.

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INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY AND LESSONS LEARNED BY MEMBERS

Debates and knowledge production, researches, exchange of experiences, action and collective learning among CLADE members have been usual practices in the historical and strengthening process of the network.

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