Agenda UV

The first international congress on care, equality and diversity aims to highlight the value of care as the foundation of a new social pact.

The care and ethics of care are already being studied by political science, economics, social work, philosophy, education sciences or pedagogy, however, a profound treatment is missing from a perspective lega.l Since the constitutional law or the philosophy of law has begun to study this issue in order to indicate care as an inspiring principle of a new constituent pact that is based on solidarity and that places the person in the center of the life.

Throughout our existence, all people physically and emotionally need the care and time of others. That time has been the time of women. Caring means taking care of people and that is what women have been doing for centuries. The State has to assume that the generations of women who have traditionally taken care of - in particular of minors, sick people, old people or dependents - are finished, and are not willing to continue providing that function exclusively: neither be exclusively carers nor being exclusively they who care, that's why it is so important to universalize the ethics of care. And hence the need to have a right to care that is already being proposed in the work of constitutional reform.

In order to deepen in it, redefine the concept and face all possible legal problems that may arise from the construction of this new legal element, we would like to continue working and be able to count on contributions from other experts, which is the end of this congress.

The congress will distribute its contributions in four work sessions during two days, on May 28 and 29.

The first session is dedicated to locating the problem of care as an inspiring principle of a new ethic and its manifestation as a possible new right that could be recognized in our constitutional framework. And try to present a design of legal framework to develop a right to care from a double perspective of caring, and being careful.

The second session aims to start from the real panorama of people with functional diversity in need of special care. In this space micro-talks will be held, where people with functional diversity, their therapists, family members and experts who treat them and institutions that manage dependency aids will expose their experiences, difficulties and demands.

The third session has the interest of presenting other models of public care policies, both informal care and that exercised by State institutions: on the one hand the British model will be addressed, and on the other the model of care rights to people in Italy, to compare with the Spanish model.

In the last session, the participants' communications will be read, followed by the collection of contributions and conclusions.