The Ministry of Culture today presented the Cultural Rights Plan, a roadmap that redefines cultural policies from a human rights perspective. The Plan recognises culture as a fundamental right and a common good, linked to well-being, democracy and social justice, and proposes a paradigm shift by highlighting its active role in social transformation and in the consolidation of a fairer and more participatory democracy.
The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, and the Director General for Cultural Rights, Jazmín Beirak, presented the Plan at the Reina Sofía National Museum, accompanied by representatives of institutions and organisations involved in the process of drawing up the Cultural Rights Plan.
In the words of the Minister of Culture, the Plan ‘aims to promote a transformation of culture in our country, in the way culture is approached politically, from the point of view of public management, but also, and very especially, in the way culture and the way we relate to it are considered as institutions that are an extension of citizenship’. He added that ‘guaranteeing cultural democracy is the first strategic priority of this Plan; where there is social inequality there is also a deep fracture in access to cultural goods, knowledge, resources and practices, and this Plan proposes specific measures to bridge this gap and deepen the democratisation of culture’.
In this sense, the Director General for Cultural Rights, Jazmín Beirak, stressed that ‘guaranteeing cultural democracy requires addressing existing structural inequalities, recognising all people as protagonists of cultural life and promoting models of shared governance’. This is why, she added, ‘the Plan promotes measures to strengthen education and cultural mediation as key to the effective exercise of cultural rights’.
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