Ciudad Real.- The subdelegate of the Government in the province of Ciudad Real, María de los Ángeles Herreros, spoke this morning in the presentation of the ‘Practical guide for intervention from an intersectional perspective in cases of discrimination due to racism and xenophobia’, funded by the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, and a second guide called ‘Hate crimes and ethnic-racial discrimination. Practical manual for legal action’, financed by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
Both guides aim to address specific situations of discrimination that were detected in the attentions made by the CEPAIM Foundation, through the Networks project that they develop with the support of the Executive and from different geographical points, focusing on how to intervene and provide solutions in each case.
Along with the deputy delegate, the Autonomous Director of Castilla-La Mancha of the CEPAIM Foundation, Adolfo Patón, Ignacio Gómez, coordinator of the CEPAIM centers of Ciudad Real and Bolaños de Calatrava, councilors of the City of Ciudad Real, workers of social entities and members of the State Security Forces and Bodies, both of Civil Guard and National Police, attended the presentation.
The Government’s deputy delegate, María de los Ángeles Herreros, thanked the CEPAIM Foundation for its work to eradicate racial and ethnic discrimination, and highlighted the legislative advances that are taking place in this area, and in the evolution of social rights, as happens with the EU’s Comprehensive Plan against Racism. Also “in Spain, which started in the time of President Zapatero with the so-called Zerolo Law, and which was an important starting point, which the current Government of Pedro Sánchez is once again promoting with laws that protect social rights, since without equality, with discrimination, neither the rights nor the freedoms of the people can be correctly developed”, he stressed.
The deputy delegate also stressed that in Ciudad Real there is a specific unit that fights hate crimes within the information units of the National Police and the Civil Guard.