The urban accessibility It should not be thought only for people with disabilities, because it would be exclusive, but as a right because good spaces should be for everyone. This is part of the conclusions of the V Congress International of Urban Accessibility who organized the Francina Hungary Foundation.
Within the “White Baton 2025” campaign, the Foundation organized the Congress which had as its central theme accessibility and the solid waste. The international expert, Bernardino Vitoy, spoke about the problematic of the lack of accessibility in the public roads many countries.
“Safe mobility is considered by the WHO as a social determinant in Latin America; 30% of intersections are not adequate, that is, they are not adjusted, they are not accessible and in some countries the spaces for containers and vehicles are placed in a way that prevents pedestrians from walking.
He deplored that in many countries people place obstacles on the streets and sidewalks that constitute difficulties for free movement and that increases the accidentswhich are the main cause of internment, the main victims being older adults (with femur fractures), children and people with disabilities.
“The 2006 convention of United Nations determined that the accessibility it’s a right human. In other words, we are not talking about good will, we are talking about a right. So all people have right to have accessibility and mobility is part of social justice,” he said.
We will seek to reach a consensus on proposals
Francina Hungary He said that in the Congress there was a intersectoral dialogue with representatives and decision makers from the business community, the government, and international organizations, all pushing in the same direction, to encourage cities to have a better waste management so that the movement, health, and well-being of all citizens is possible.
Jose Beltranpresident of the Francina Hungary Foundation, reported the commitment that of the issues raised in the Congress a is made proposal about what should be done immediately, but also how we should think about the city in the long term.
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“It is a document that we are going to send to Congress where the waste law is right now that has not finished coming out, we are going to send it to the Executive Branch, but also to each of you (the media) so that the conversation spreads because if Congress does not become the congress of urban accessibility and it does not become a permanent conversation, then it will remain as if it was something of a day and it is not like that.”
He Congress included a panel titled: “Building Wellbeing, a View from Solid Waste Management and the Circular Economy” in which Circe Almánzar, founder CEO of CA Public Affairs and spokesperson for the Dominican Association of Rum Producers, participated.
Also Nelson Núnez, president of the Dominican Federation of Municipalities (Fedomu)and Rafael Cruz, director of the Center for Industrial Development and Competitiveness (Proindustria).
