Understanding of Human Rights through Civic Education in the 21st Century

The reality is that there are still many human rights abuses that we see both among adults and school-aged children, this has to do with the level of understanding of human rights itself, as for the purpose of this paper is to explore how human rights understanding is associated with Ongoing Citizenship Education is in the 21st century, because a condition will affect the development of children especially in school age. The method used in this paper is the study of several sources of books, journals and other references that support this writing. from the results of the study theories can be concluded that In an effort to instill understanding of Human Rights through Citizenship Education now should be able to improve quality learning in accordance with the needs (based on IT) and competence of educators good and professional, uphold the legislation and able to maintain unity state, fostering students to be aware of the rights and duties of good citizens, and the planting of characters in accordance with the value of Pancasila value.