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Simultaneous with the existence of humanity in the world, human rights, after the Second World War, have become a widespread a concept and a universal issue. At national and international levels, serious human rights violations have been taking place around the world despite many measures and regulations. With this study, it has been aimed to determine the perceptions of teacher candidates, who will be the teachers of the future, about human rights. 42 teacher candidates studying at Necmettin Erbakan University, Ereğli Faculty of Education in departments of Turkish Language Teaching, Guidance and Counseling, and Mathematics Teaching participated in this study. The phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research methods has been adopted in the study, and the data have been collected through mind maps. In the analysis of the data discribe analysis technique has been used. The data obtained have been categorized under the headings of basic concepts related to human rights, human rights violations, causes of human rights violations, and remedies for human rights violations. According to the findings, it has come out that the teacher candidates are aware of and sensitive about human rights. The teacher candidates have stated that human rights violations such as murder, violence against women and children, abuse, child labor, language, religion, race, gender discrimination, denial of the right to education, prevention of freedom of religion and conscience, and prevention of freedom of thought and expression occur. Moreover, teacher candidates think that violations of human rights occur because of inadequate laws, lack of democracy, political, religious, social structure, ethnic problems, wars, terrorist attacks, colonialism, genocide, unconsciousness, selfishness, poverty, and economic difficulties. In order to prevent those violations, teacher candidates think that it is necessary to make regulations such as making and implementing effective laws to protect human rights in the public sphere, educating children and families, being a non-discriminant person, getting public awareness, developing policies, and gaining affective qualities such as respect for others, love and empathy. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that the teacher candidates have knowledge about the basic concepts of human rights, violations, causes of violations and their solutions

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