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The debate on human rights and citizenship education is achieving greater space and relevance in Brazil, from the 1980s and 1990s, through propositions of the organized civil society and governmental actions in the field of educational policies aiming at democracy strengthening. This study focuses on the affirmation of human rights in education with reference to the political and economic context of the country and the effect of this in education through an educational and social point of view. The study aimed to verify the changes that permeated the formal affirmation of the human right to education and the formation and consolidation of a movement towards a human rights education, from a legal point of view. The contextualized reading of educational laws proposed here is based, methodologically, in the bibliographical and documentary research based on historical and dialectical method. The human rights education in Brazil was preceded by a process of legal guarantee of the human right to education permeated by contradiction: his legal statement did not mean to guarantee it in practice. The National Plan for Human Rights, even though of central relevance to secure that right in the context of the culture of human rights inserted in school, it is partly weakened because it seeks to implement an "ideal" social condition still far from completion - if it is considered the parameters of current |