COCEMFE claims continuity and sustainability of the sector of disability.

-la Confederation endorsed the manifesto published by the CERMI: No to the cuts. Social rights and continuity and stability of the sector of disability ”

-COCEMFE believes that the crisis could not be an excuse or pretext to stop the public policies of disability

-sector requires the new Government a firm commitment to the goals of inclusion of persons with disabilities and their families

Madrid, 2011-December the Spanish Confederation of people with physical disability and organic (COCEMFE) endorsed the manifesto the Spanish Committee of representatives of people with physical disability and organic (CERMI) has published on the occasion of the international day and European of persons with disabilitieswhich was held on 3 December.

Under the motto, No to the cuts. Social rights and continuity and stability of the sector of disability ”, the CERMI and required to the new Government that has emerged from the general elections of November 20, autonomic Governments largely renovated in the first months of this year to commit strongly ” the purposes of inclusion of persons with disabilities and their families through the development of legislationpolicies, strategies and strengthened decisions to maintain disability in relevant and permanent positions on the political agenda.

According to the CERMI in the last three or four years now have been significant reductions in social games, which have made disappear or committed the sustainability of services and direct care and support devices for persons with disabilities and their families.

Not can retreat in our social achievements and rights obtained during recent times. The crisis could not be an excuse or pretext to stop the public policies of disability ”, stressed the President of COCEMFE, Mario García.

In addition, and in particular, calls for determined political and budgetary impetus to definitively consolidate the law of Personal autonomy and dependence, unless they shouldn’t or weaken disability policies.

According to the President of COCEMFE, in our country there are three million people with a physical and organic disability, of which approximately one million are dependent. If the Administration deal only to dependent persons would be two million people with disabilities outside the care system ”.

The Committee also notes in his manifesto that addressing disability is from the perspective of human rights through the International Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities of 2006. Disability collective understands that in the next legislature, will have to adopt a new legislative block adaptation and policy adjustments to this Convention ”, highlights García.

The CERMI, as indicated in this document, will act to prevent and counter action, present and future, which run counter to social inclusion and the protection of the groups most vulnerable citizens, alerting, mobilising and activating their structures and their ability to influence and pressure for the achievement of these essential objectives ”.

The Spanish Confederation of people with physical disability and organic (COCEMFE) is a non-governmental non-profit that was founded in 1980. It aims to unite, strengthen and form coordination efforts and activities of entities working in favour of persons with disabilities physical and organic to defend their rights and improve their quality of life. The entity brings together more than 1,360 organizations divided into autonomous confederations, State institutions and provincial federations which in turn, bring together the various local associations.