Africa-Press – Angola. The acting director of the Social Action, Family and Gender Equality office in Cunene, Alexandre Tulikeni, defended, this Friday, greater involvement of families in raising awareness among their children to avoid acts of discrimination.
Regarding the celebrations of March 21st, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, he said that combating discrimination is a principle based on the Constitution.
This time, he highlighted the need for everyone’s involvement in education and awareness against various forms of racial discrimination, to guarantee inclusive and balanced societies, because the phenomenon affects the self-esteem of the injured person.
Alexandre Tulikeni said that along with schools and churches, families play a leading role in transmitting and teaching their children in early childhood, to make them aware that when they are inserted into the social environment, there are other people with different races who enjoy the same things. rights.
He made it known that in Cunene there are three racial groups, two of which are non-Bantu (Vátuas and Koinsan), which, due to various discriminatory acts and non-compliance with the accessibility law, have difficulty integrating normally into society.
There are two thousand and 791 members of the Koisan community living in the municipalities of Cuanhama, Ombadja, Namacunde and Cuvelai, 799 Vatuas in Curoca and 320 people with albinism, and registration of this segment is underway.
He said that despite government policies for social inclusion, there are enormous difficulties in integrating into contemporary social life, as they preserve their ways of life.
By way of example, he added that many school-age children from the Sans and Vatua tribes are out of the education process, and others who were studying ended up dropping out due to acts of discrimination.
He explained that coexistence with other children is not very healthy, due to communication barriers, as they do not understand what is transmitted in the classroom.
He also highlighted the difficulties experienced by people with albinism, who due to their skin condition are unable to carry out remunerative activities, especially selling food in informal markets.
“Training is a key issue for these groups to join the globalized world of wisdom and technology, in order to achieve full equality rights” he maintained.
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
On March 21, 1960, in South Africa, 20,000 black people protested against a law that limited the places they could travel.
The demonstration was peaceful, but Army troops shot into the crowd, killing 69 people and injuring another 186, in the episode that became known as the Shaperville massacre.
In memory of the tragedy, the United Nations established March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Racial discrimination is defined as any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin that has the object or result of nullifying or restricting the recognition, enjoyment or exercise on the same level of equality of condition, of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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