Compasito is structured around 13 human rights-related themes, each of which relates directly to one or more concrete human right and they reflect areas where children’s rights are often violated, or they connect with children’s daily lives.

These themes carry equal importance. Indeed, they are interrelated to such a degree that addressing any one of them inevitably carries links to others.

This is a direct consequence of the fact that human rights are indivisible, interdependent and interrelated: they cannot be treated in isolation, because
they are connected to each other in numerous intricate ways.

These problems are not exclusively of interest to human rights educators; they are equally relevant to all those who are engaged in promoting a just and peaceful world and in protecting children’s rights. Depending on the educational and social context, educators and facilitators may be encouraged or
required to implement and adopt specific educational programmes that connect or partly overlap with human rights education or that prioritise a specific theme. It may be called child rights education, peace education, education for sustainability, media education, gender equality education, environment education, citizenship education or even “patriotic education”.

Often, especially in non-formal education activities, we call on children’s sense of responsibility and dignity without necessarily calling it human rights education. Human rights education is indeed varied and is present in more ways than we often think! However, it is crucial that the essential values
of human rights and principles of human rights education be present for an activity to promote equality in human dignity.

The diagram below provides an illustration of the interconnections and potential overlaps between thematic issues and education fields. The issues in the outer circle blend into one another, just as the educational spheres in the central circle merge together.

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