5 Spain SOCHUM Final Submission
Committee: The Social, Cultural and Humanitarian Affairs Committee
Delegate: Messaadia Amar
Country: Spain
Topic: Disability as an Invisible Issue in the Development Frameworks
Among the most important principles that the United Nations strongly seeks since its creation is « fundamental freedoms for all persons» inter alia, persons with disabilities, and how can we include them in the development frameworks. From the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (1982), the Standard Rules on Equalization of Opportunities for Disabled Persons (1993) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; this issue has been a moot point. with a number over 1 billion people (15 % of the world’s population) living with some form of disability and realization of the international community about the importance of the issue; it is time more than ever to improve the inclusion of disabled persons in society and development.
In Spain, there are about four million disabled persons within our national boundaries and they face different issues, such as, inferior social and employment status: People with disabilities have 28% as net employment rate against 66% (the employment gap is 38 %) of general population. Also, 97% of disabled children are in school, the majority in a normal setting, but if the education of children aged less than 12 years is real, this is not always the case after. On 02 December 2012 in Madrid, disabled persons rally againts budget cuts that endanger the welfare system.
So, our government had fashioned its constitution to a better social acceptance:
Disabled children Students will have qualified staff in schools to ensure their confort.
Also, Article 49, which imposes the creation of "a policy of prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and integration of persons with disabilities”. In the employment policy, the law establishes, as a central goal, the access of people with disabilities to professional training, the integration into
Delegate: Messaadia Amar
Country: Spain
Topic: Disability as an Invisible Issue in the Development Frameworks
Among the most important principles that the United Nations strongly seeks since its creation is « fundamental freedoms for all persons» inter alia, persons with disabilities, and how can we include them in the development frameworks. From the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (1982), the Standard Rules on Equalization of Opportunities for Disabled Persons (1993) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; this issue has been a moot point. with a number over 1 billion people (15 % of the world’s population) living with some form of disability and realization of the international community about the importance of the issue; it is time more than ever to improve the inclusion of disabled persons in society and development.
In Spain, there are about four million disabled persons within our national boundaries and they face different issues, such as, inferior social and employment status: People with disabilities have 28% as net employment rate against 66% (the employment gap is 38 %) of general population. Also, 97% of disabled children are in school, the majority in a normal setting, but if the education of children aged less than 12 years is real, this is not always the case after. On 02 December 2012 in Madrid, disabled persons rally againts budget cuts that endanger the welfare system.
So, our government had fashioned its constitution to a better social acceptance:
Disabled children Students will have qualified staff in schools to ensure their confort.
Also, Article 49, which imposes the creation of "a policy of prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and integration of persons with disabilities”. In the employment policy, the law establishes, as a central goal, the access of people with disabilities to professional training, the integration into