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Human rights, which include preventing and combating hate speech, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and the rights of the child; Gender equality; Interculturality; Sustainable development; Environmental education; Health, which addresses mental health, food education, addictive behaviors and addictions, prevention of violence in schools and physical activity. These are the domains of the first group of Education for Citizenship, mandatory for all levels and levels of education.
From the second group, compulsory in at least two cycles of basic education, they are part of Sexuality, which addresses issues such as identity and gender, the development of sexuality, sexual and reproductive rights – prevention of abusive relationships and motherhood and fatherhood – responsible fatherhood; he Media; how Institutions and democratic participation; a Financial literacy and consumer education; a Safe road is he Risk.
In the third group, with optional application in any school year, is the Entrepreneurship; the World of work, a Security, Defense and Peace; the Animal welfare is he Volunteering.
These are the domains of the Citizenship Education subject (whose contents can be found here) that prompted a petition in favor of respect for the conscientious objection of parents who do not want their children to attend it. and that brought together nearly 100 personalities, including Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Pedro Passos Coelho, D. Manuel Clemente, Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, and Sérgio Sousa Pinto.
According to the Observer, the petition launched by the professors of the Catholic University Manuel Braga da Cruz and Mário Pinto, as a result of the case of the 12 and 14-year-old brothers from Vila Nova de Famalicão, who were initially prevented from advancing to 7th grade and 9th grade, respectively, for not having attended DPI classes, of the Camilo Castelo Branco School Group, by decision of their parents.
In addition to the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is cited for its justification, nor is it purposely compulsory subjects in the course of Education for Citizenship.
