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Power, Politics and Democracy Year of publication: 2012 Author: Manuel Rojas Bolaños | Rotsay Rosales Valladares Corporate author: Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH) | Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos This material shows the main theoretical-conceptual approaches and the central historical elements of democracy as a political regime and form of organization of social life, in order to serve as a general context for the study of democracy in Costa Rica. 
Global Citizenship Education Policy and Recommendations Report: Reflections and proposals for the SICA region Year of publication: 2021 Author: Daniel Abreu Corporate author: Central America Coordination Bureau for Education and Culture (CECC) | Central American Integration System The CECC/SICA Council of Ministers has proposed to the Ministries of Education, in the Contingency Plan for the SICA region, to prioritize some approaches and curriculum content. One area of particular relevance is education for the exercise of citizenship, a dimension especially challenged in these times when citizens have seen their principles, values and daily practices critically demanded by the special circumstances of living together in society.The Report explains how Global Citizenship Education is implemented in SICA countries and provides recommendations for strengthening it in different as- pects of policy and teaching practice. 
Migrations in Central America: Policies, Territories and Actors. Year of publication: 2016 Author: Carlos Sandival García Corporate author: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica Migrations in Central America. Policies, Territories, and Actors seeks to offer an approach to the various dimensions of the migratory experience in Central America. Four starting points characterize this book: the public nature of the call, the collective dimension of the work, the regional perspective that is nourished by the contrast and comparison of cases and, fourthly, the call that gives rise to this book. This has allowed us to have a concrete task to shape the expectations of public, collective and regional work. 
Public Policies on Gender Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 21st Century: New Protagonisms and Old Dilemmas in Times of Uncertainty Year of publication: 2023 Author: Cinthya Fernández Lépiz | Esteban Zolezzi Corporate author: Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) The III Report of FLACSO on Gender Issues is the result of a collaborative process among the Academic Units of FLACSO. Its chapters aim to identify the main challenges in each country regarding gender equality in the early 21st century and engage them in a dialogue with contributions from the academic community of FLACSO. They seek to provide a general characterization of each country, analyze the main challenges in terms of gender equality, as well as the critical contributions and limitations raised by gender and feminist studies in conjunction with the contributions made by FLACSO. 
Action Protocol in Bullying Situations Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: Costa Rica. Ministry of Public Education | Directorate of Student Life | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Bullying is a reality suffered by children, adolescents and young people all over the world. It affects their well-being, their development and the exercise of their rights as well as their responsibilities. Addressing these situations in the educational environment requires a coordinated and articulated effort to assign time, resources, tasks, and responsibilities of each and every actor in the educational community and institutions responsible for the care of the child and adolescent population. 
Self-Training Manual on Access to Justice and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Year of publication: 2011 Corporate author: Inter-American Institute of Human rights (IIDH) This manual presents the work of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights on economic, social and cultural rights from all possible approaches, in all settings and above all, with the clarity that they should be universal and inclusive knowledge. In this sense, the main challenge is to ensure that people in conditions of greater vulnerability have simple references of what their rights are as groups, how to recognize them, protect them and how to claim them, both within national justice and before international organizations for the protection of human rights. 
Learning About Emotions: Manual of Emotional Education Year of publication: 2012 Author: Monica Calderón Rodríguez | Gabriela González Mora | Patricia Salazar Segnini | Stephanie Washburn Madrigal Corporate author: Central America Coordination Bureau for Education and Culture (CECC) | Central American Integration System This is an emotional education manual for teacher training that aims to provide innovative strategies that complement the daily work carried out in the classroom, strengthening the subject of emotions and their education. 
Report on the Right to Education in Human Mobility in Central America, the Dominican Republic and Mexico: Towards Inclusive, Equitable, Quality Education With Lifelong Learning Opportunities Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO San José | Central American Educational and Cultural Coordination | Central American Integration System Although human mobility is not a new phenomenon, data indicate that the number of people in this situation has reached its highest point since records began and there are no signs that the trend will decrease in the coming years. This scenario threatens to become a structural situation, strongly impacting the right to education and educational systems. Therefore, it is imperative that States and other key actors make a deep commitment to guarantee the fundamental right to education of people in situations of mobility through urgent measures, in line with the provisions of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. For this reason, the preparation of this Report on the right to education of people in situations of mobility in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic has been undertaken. The Report is an effort by UNESCO and the Central American Educational and Cultural Coordination (CECC/SICA) in collaboration with UNHCR, IOM, UNICEF, the Norwegian Refugee Council and RET International, and with the technical support of the SES Foundation and the UNESCO Chair for the Development of International Education at George Washington University (United States). 
Intercultural Multilingual Education in Latin America: Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay, and Norway Year of publication: 2011 Corporate author: Internacional de la Educación para Latinoamerica This document deals with Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE), its current status and the concepts and processes driving it today – and in a certain way the conflicts encompassing it. It contains information on Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay, and includes some data and comments on Norway. Certainly all Latin America is involved in the topic, one way or another, but for now this is the geographical scope of the paper. It seeks to give an overview of the whole and profile a few specific aspects by country.