The disability was the situation of discrimination most denounced to line 168, the telephone channel set up by the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI) a year ago so that the population can report these facts, while the area where produce more discriminatory acts is the educational.
The data comes from report he published on Tuesday the INADI as a balance on the anniversary of the implementation of this line, an occasion in which it is also celebrated the Zero Discrimination Day.
“The most reported reason is disability (10.05%), which is the reason historically most denounced in the organization. For this group, INADI is an important tool for resolving their conflicts”, explains Demián Zayat, director of Victim Assistance.
In the second place are the reasons for Healthto which INADI attributed to the effects of the pandemic.
The agency highlighted that it began to receive complaints from people discriminated against because of their environment or in the labor sphere for having suffered from Covid, mistreated health personnel by their neighbors for being in direct contact with the virus and pregnant women who were not allowed to be accompanied during childbirth by protocol Covid.
This scenario “made the number of consultations related to health grow, which brings together 4.58%”.
In addition, there are also reasons gender and gender identity (3.46%), physical appearance (3.17%), sexual orientation (3.17%) and xenophobia (2.62%), age (2.13%) and violence against woman (1.90%).
Regarding the areas where discriminatory acts occur, the main references were: educational (7.7%), public administration (5.56%), health (5.19%), private employment (4.70%), communication (4.69%) and neighborhood (4.18%).
Zayat highlighted that “We reached 12,387 consultations in 2021, which is a much higher number than the 9,000 the previous year and the 5,000 the previous year.”
He argued that the result is that “now it is much easier to communicate with INADI. We project to increase between 10% and 15% the number of queries during 2022”.
“If we look at the income per month, we can see a very marked growth in the second half of last yearwhen the line has already managed to establish itself in society”, explains the director.
The line 168 responds to complaints every day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., including Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, but if you communicate outside these hours you can leave a recorded message or to the public attention email: [email protected]
Deaf people can send a video in Argentine Sign Language (LSA) by WhatsApp at 11 4404 9026.
You can file a complaint via Remote Procedure (TAD).
