Slam, violence, guarantees of rights, peripheriesThe general objective of this work is to analyze how Slam has contributed to/to the debate on human rights and violations of these rights for young people from the periphery. This research deals with the theme of Slam, poetic performance: a practice for debating the human rights of young people from the periphery, and its research problem highlights how young people from the periphery use the poetic performance Slam to debate their rights. In this sense, the theoretical basis is structured in the study of the performance of Paul Zumthor (2014), to understand in more depth the importance of performance and, in dialogue with Zumthor, we used the Pedagogy of autonomy, by Freire (2004), for to warn, among so many teachings, about respect for autonomy and identity. Along with Zumthor (2014) and Freire (2004), studies by Jaques Rancière (2014) were used, with the aim of understanding more assertively the relationships between the world of art, performance and spectator behavior. In addition to the aforementioned theorists, we used studies by D’Alva (2011), Stella (2015) and Neves (2017), with the aim of (re)knowing the context of Slam production. Subsequently, it was also necessary to use Bronfenbrenner's Development Theory (1996), given the influences of writing, many of which originate from the (inter)personal, environmental and cultural relationships of its producers. As for the methodological nature, it followed the qualitative approach, based on Minayo (1994), which we associate with documentary analysis. As for specific objectives, we chose to analyze the relationship between the life experiences of young people from the periphery and the production/performance of the Slam, and how the Slam as a discursive product portrays violations of their rights.