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スペインの2012年の財政予算は、273億0000'0000ユーロ+100億0000'0000ユーロの、特に医療·教育非費の削減は、社会的権利の削減!
Derechos sociales; el otro déficit
El Estado debe rendir cuentas a los mercados, pero también a la ciudadanía. Un pacto internacional suscrito en 1977 obliga a España a respetar derechos esenciales de la población como la sanidad y la educación
Social rights, the other deficit
The State is accountable to the markets, but also to the public. An international agreement signed in 1977 obliges Spain to respect essential rights of the population such as health and education
Gaby Ore Aguilar 7 MAY 2012 - 00:08 CET
The State is accountable to the markets, but also to the public. An international agreement signed in 1977 obliges Spain to respect essential rights of the population such as health and education
Gaby Ore Aguilar 7 MAY 2012 - 00:08 CET
It has recently been debated in the House of Representatives amendments to the budget for 2012, described as the most restrictive in the history of Spanish democracy. At 27,300 million reduction in public spending, joined a week later, a cut of 10,000 million in health and education. The 83% reduction of the budget is direct government spending, most sensitive areas of social policy. These cuts punished more harshly for poor women, youth and immigrants. Its impact will extend beyond our borders due to the dramatic decline in development cooperation, which is reduced by 72%. In form and substance, these measures have been taken back to the social sectors, the growing reality of economic helplessness of families, and especially, the obligations on human rights be observed by the Spanish Government.
However, neither the unprecedented cuts in social spending to achieve a rapid reduction of the deficit, nor the highest-grossing weak ads via taxes including tax amnesty question, have served to meet the expectations of Brussels or of speculators debt . The growing skepticism about these government accounts, together with the damage they cause austerity measures in the domestic economy, threatening to deepen the economic crisis.
At this point, the question arises: Can the State take measures in response to the crisis by ignoring the social rights? Who is accountable ultimately the state, markets or citizenship? Ultimately, it is necessary to analyze beyond the effectiveness of all, if it is legitimate for the government, eager to close the budget deficit, deepen the deficit in social rights.
Spain has been unable to advance a more equitable to require higher tax burden more have quiene
Spain has been unable to advance a more equitable then places the burden of the tax burden on those who have more, great fortunes calls or returns of capital. Measures to increase revenues announced by the Government are timid and inadequate. These do not address the objective of laying the foundations for a progressive tax policy. Thus, if the Spanish state does not increase its tax base and does not correct the discriminatory impact of its current fiscal model, will remain the sectors of the population most affected by the cuts which will still more obliged to contribute to the exchequer.
The imbalance between efforts (minimum) to increase revenue and austerity measures (disproportionately hard) marks a regressive trend in social rights. According to the latest Survey of Living Conditions in 2011, in Spain, 22% of households live below the poverty line. The poverty rate increased by more than two points between 2009 and 2011. Late last year, 580,000 homes in Spain received no income or work, or unemployment benefits or Social Security, ie, were in extreme poverty.
Rising inequality is also palpable. The percentage difference between the highest incomes compared to the lowest from 6 to 7 points in just one year between 2009 and the following year. Besides the direct impact of austerity measures, the regressivity is evident in the lack of a diligent effort to counter state back rights that demonstrate these and other social indicators in recent years.
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights obliges defend the basic standards of the population
Now the Government has not explained the reasons and criteria used to cut more in one sector than another, or provide elements to understand why they cut four times in international development cooperation in defense, or why removed to help implement the Law Unit for the communities, why eliminate the employment promotion fund, and generally does not account for the elements to understand the degree of reasonableness and appropriateness of these decisions as required by international human rights standards. Nor has the State taken into account the economic and social rights enshrined in the Constitution as the guiding principles of public policy, as provided by this instrument. Moreover, it has created mechanisms for participation and scrutiny by civil society to speak out and influence these measures.
The participation of citizens in decisions that affect them is not an optional power of governments, is a fundamental and inalienable right that gives meaning and content of democracy. The Spanish government is accountable in political terms but also in terms of the obligations arising from treaties signed international human rights. Therefore, civil society organizations have resorted to mechanisms of accountability of the UN system to channel and articulate their claims or alternatives.
Spain has signed the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 1977 and, consequently, the State is obliged to follow the rules and standards that emerge from this treaty. Just this afternoon and tomorrow 8 May in Geneva, where the headquarters of the committee overseeing the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Nations, Spain will be questioned by this group of experts on the current status of these rights in this country . The Government and civil society have the opportunity to present their arguments before this committee on various areas of concern regarding these rights and the Spanish State must make commitments to implement corrective measures in response to the recommendations that will emanate from this committee. To this end, a coalition of 19 organizations submitted a joint report providing information experts alternative to that presented by the Government. This report highlights the worrying situation of inequality, discrimination and deficits in the various rights protected by the ICESCR.
According to the parameters established by the ICESCR, the committee will have the opportunity to question the Spanish state if you used "maximum resources" available to achieve the progressive realization of economic and social rights of the population, if performed careful and serious effort to evaluate the resources available and other alternatives to generate and use other resources.
The civil society organizations have asked the committee to evaluate whether the State acted with due diligence before and during the process of designing, implementing or monitoring the austerity measures including cuts in social spending, if available measures to reduce or offset the impact of such measures on the most vulnerable and if a priority was careful to respect and ensure the availability of essential minimum content of rights such as education, health, housing and other established by the pact.
The Spanish State can take this opportunity to explain and, why not amend the excesses and mistakes of their austerity policies. What the Executive can not do is follow subordinating social rights to market requirements, blindly accepting the conditions of Brussels while ignoring its obligations regarding human rights and the demands of civil society. It should also not forget that accountability to Geneva consensus emanates from the nations that at one point in history decided that all rights and freedoms of people deserve the protection of the international community. It is, therefore, a requirement as legitimate as having front Brussels.
Gaby Ore Aguilar is Director of Programs, Center for Economic and Social Rights
However, neither the unprecedented cuts in social spending to achieve a rapid reduction of the deficit, nor the highest-grossing weak ads via taxes including tax amnesty question, have served to meet the expectations of Brussels or of speculators debt . The growing skepticism about these government accounts, together with the damage they cause austerity measures in the domestic economy, threatening to deepen the economic crisis.
At this point, the question arises: Can the State take measures in response to the crisis by ignoring the social rights? Who is accountable ultimately the state, markets or citizenship? Ultimately, it is necessary to analyze beyond the effectiveness of all, if it is legitimate for the government, eager to close the budget deficit, deepen the deficit in social rights.
Spain has been unable to advance a more equitable to require higher tax burden more have quiene
Spain has been unable to advance a more equitable then places the burden of the tax burden on those who have more, great fortunes calls or returns of capital. Measures to increase revenues announced by the Government are timid and inadequate. These do not address the objective of laying the foundations for a progressive tax policy. Thus, if the Spanish state does not increase its tax base and does not correct the discriminatory impact of its current fiscal model, will remain the sectors of the population most affected by the cuts which will still more obliged to contribute to the exchequer.
The imbalance between efforts (minimum) to increase revenue and austerity measures (disproportionately hard) marks a regressive trend in social rights. According to the latest Survey of Living Conditions in 2011, in Spain, 22% of households live below the poverty line. The poverty rate increased by more than two points between 2009 and 2011. Late last year, 580,000 homes in Spain received no income or work, or unemployment benefits or Social Security, ie, were in extreme poverty.
Rising inequality is also palpable. The percentage difference between the highest incomes compared to the lowest from 6 to 7 points in just one year between 2009 and the following year. Besides the direct impact of austerity measures, the regressivity is evident in the lack of a diligent effort to counter state back rights that demonstrate these and other social indicators in recent years.
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights obliges defend the basic standards of the population
Now the Government has not explained the reasons and criteria used to cut more in one sector than another, or provide elements to understand why they cut four times in international development cooperation in defense, or why removed to help implement the Law Unit for the communities, why eliminate the employment promotion fund, and generally does not account for the elements to understand the degree of reasonableness and appropriateness of these decisions as required by international human rights standards. Nor has the State taken into account the economic and social rights enshrined in the Constitution as the guiding principles of public policy, as provided by this instrument. Moreover, it has created mechanisms for participation and scrutiny by civil society to speak out and influence these measures.
The participation of citizens in decisions that affect them is not an optional power of governments, is a fundamental and inalienable right that gives meaning and content of democracy. The Spanish government is accountable in political terms but also in terms of the obligations arising from treaties signed international human rights. Therefore, civil society organizations have resorted to mechanisms of accountability of the UN system to channel and articulate their claims or alternatives.
Spain has signed the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 1977 and, consequently, the State is obliged to follow the rules and standards that emerge from this treaty. Just this afternoon and tomorrow 8 May in Geneva, where the headquarters of the committee overseeing the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Nations, Spain will be questioned by this group of experts on the current status of these rights in this country . The Government and civil society have the opportunity to present their arguments before this committee on various areas of concern regarding these rights and the Spanish State must make commitments to implement corrective measures in response to the recommendations that will emanate from this committee. To this end, a coalition of 19 organizations submitted a joint report providing information experts alternative to that presented by the Government. This report highlights the worrying situation of inequality, discrimination and deficits in the various rights protected by the ICESCR.
According to the parameters established by the ICESCR, the committee will have the opportunity to question the Spanish state if you used "maximum resources" available to achieve the progressive realization of economic and social rights of the population, if performed careful and serious effort to evaluate the resources available and other alternatives to generate and use other resources.
The civil society organizations have asked the committee to evaluate whether the State acted with due diligence before and during the process of designing, implementing or monitoring the austerity measures including cuts in social spending, if available measures to reduce or offset the impact of such measures on the most vulnerable and if a priority was careful to respect and ensure the availability of essential minimum content of rights such as education, health, housing and other established by the pact.
The Spanish State can take this opportunity to explain and, why not amend the excesses and mistakes of their austerity policies. What the Executive can not do is follow subordinating social rights to market requirements, blindly accepting the conditions of Brussels while ignoring its obligations regarding human rights and the demands of civil society. It should also not forget that accountability to Geneva consensus emanates from the nations that at one point in history decided that all rights and freedoms of people deserve the protection of the international community. It is, therefore, a requirement as legitimate as having front Brussels.
Gaby Ore Aguilar is Director of Programs, Center for Economic and Social Rights
スペインの2012年の財政予算は、273億0000'0000ユーロ+100億0000'0000ユーロの、特に医療·教育非費の削減は、社会的権利の削減!
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