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“El Caracol” and the Human Rights Commission in Mexico City presented the publication “Street Population Rights”
13 June 2011
Last March 22nd, in the City of Mexico, the publication named “Street Population Rights” was presented. The document includes the strategic lines necessary to build public policies that will benefit those persons who dwell on public spaces, in addition to documenting the social cleansing actions performed by the current government against the street populations of Mexico City.
The capital’s ombudsman, Dr. González Placencia, attended the presentation and commented that “in the past, from an assistance viewpoint, we thought of helping these people as getting them out of the streets, but from the standpoint of everyone’s rights we must accept that the street belongs to all, and that includes them.” Juan Martín Pérez, Children’s Rights Network Director in Mexico, urged the state to create a comprehensive system for Children’s Rights Protection with the aim to introduce into the public offices an approach based on everyone’s rights. Carlos Welti, academician at the UNAM, explained that “the degree of respect for those rights brings to light the extant level of structural violence.” Likewise, Ruth Pérez, investigator at the UAM, mentioned how describing this analysis category as “Street Populations” stresses the importance of incorporating proper investigation into the consideration of said phenomenon, in an aim to modify the public offices’ behaviour in terms of their education practices.
The publication on Street Populations Human Rights is an invitation to reconsider this complex social phenomenon, whereas it urges the Mexican State and its public offices to develop population policies that recognize the emerging demographic phenomenon represented by street populations, using social policies aimed at preventing and tending to this growing demographic group—a group whose component persons demand to be recognized as citizens and to be treated with dignity and without discrimination.
The digital version of the publication can be viewed at the following page: www.callejeros.org.
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