Center for Human Rights and Popular Memory
The key to the fight for human
rights in Rio Grande do Norte is the Centro
de Direitos Humanos e Memória Popular (Center for Human Rights and Popular
Memory, CDHMP), an organization of civilians founded in 1986 in order to give
continuity to the activities of the Comissão
de Justiça e Paz da Arquidiocese de Natal (Commission of Justice and Peace
of the Archdiocese of Natal) founded in 1972. The CDHMP, affiliated with the
MNDH (National Human Rights Movement) and a member of the REDH-RN (Human Rights
Network of Rio Grande do Norte), of the Brazilian Education Network on Human
Rights, and the Human Rights Council, has as its mission the active promotion
of the rights of the individual with an emphasis in the area of citizenship,
justice, and social, cultural and economic rights, using the strategy of taking
action hand in hand with the rest of society.
The CDHMP was an organization
that elaborated in partnership with the Núcleo
de Estudos da Violência da Universidade de São Paulo- NEV/USP (Center
for Study on Violence- University of São Paulo), the Secretary of the Interior,
SEJUC/RN (Justice and Citizenship of Rio Grande do Norte), the The Human Rights
Program-RN (PEDH-RN), and forms part of the National Committee that created
the Programa Nacional de Educação em
Direitos Humanos (National Program on Human Rights Education). In Rio
Grande do Norte, the CDHMP coordinates and produces the Human Rights Network-RN.
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