The Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 has publicly claimed the cancellation of the 'Bullfighter Torero' show scheduled for this Friday, August 6, in the town of Zahinos (Badajoz).
In this way, the Department who directs Ione Belarra rejects and condemns the organization of shows that "denigrate people because of disability" and "vulneran" the fundamental principles of the Convention on the Rights of the United Nations Disabilities, As the Taurine comical shows represented by people with bone dysplasias (dwarfism).
Likewise, social rights condemns other activities of this type that have already been held, such as 'Popeye Torero', in Huelva, indicates in a press release.
The Director General of Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Jesus Martín Blanco, has affirmed that "freedom must be accompanied by social justice, and the autonomy of the individual falls if it is not based on equal opportunities, because nobody likes Having a job that is a motive of MOFA. "
For this reason, it makes available to people who star in this type of entertainment, a specific program of recycling and labor insertion for access to decent and decent employment.
Martín Blanco has added that "it is worrisome, especially, than this type of spectacles attend girls and boys." In Spain, despite the validity of the Convention in our legal system, this type of shows are contracted in "numerous occasions" by public administrations, especially municipalities, on the occasion of the fairs and major parties, as something cultural, offering to Assistant citizenship a "programming based on mock, degradation and humiliation of a physical condition".
The General Directorate of Rights of Persons with Disabilities recalls public administrations with the recommendation made to Spain by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with United Nations Disabilities to adopt measures to design, start and maintain public awareness campaigns and In the media aimed at eradicating negative stereotypes towards persons with disabilities, promoting recognition and respect for their rights and promoting a positive perception and greater social awareness in terms of these persons in society.
From the ministry they emphasize that respect the reality of people with dwarfism, used "for centuries as a symbol of mock, humiliation and isolation", causing the "social exclusion and violation" of the fundamental rights of all people with this disability, not It is a "paternalistic" issue, but is erected in the "essential parameter that can identify lesive situations of human rights, protecting and prevailing a protective general interest of a community".
Likewise, they alluded to "numerous studies" in social psychology that have dealt with the issue of identity not only at the individual level but also at a social level, and in the legal level, anti-discrimination law argues that the "individuals members of the discriminated groups are subjects of discrimination not at the individual level, but precisely because of its belonging to that human group. "
For this reason, they are "all people with bone dysplasias that are affected by a social devaluation by extrapolating a stereotyped image without taking into account the different realities of each affected person."
In this sense, the States Parties part of the Convention, including Spain, in collaboration with the organizations that defend the interests of persons with disabilities, must take "all relevant measures" to modify or repeal laws, regulations, customs and existing practices that constitute "discrimination against people with disabilities, this obligation being applicable to all parts of the Spanish State without limitations or exceptions".
As concrete measures to seek the eradication of this type of shows, the General Directorate of Rights of Persons with Disabilities has proposed the modification of the current Taurino National Convention, in which the comic bullfight is regulated; of the Rules of Taurine Shows, and of the Organic Law 4/2015, of protection of citizen security.
Likewise, it is proposed to accommodate the precepts of the Convention, Law 10/1991, of April 4, on administrative powers on Taurine Shows, and Law 18/2013, of November 12, for the regulation of Tauromaquia as cultural heritage.
Date Of Update: 05 August 2021, 04:56
