Ação dos conselhos municipais do direito da pessoa com deficiência na microrregião de Itajubá: desafios e possibilidades

Abstract

Throughout history, people with disabilities (PCD) have been abandoned, marginalized, excluded and despised by society, facing various forms of restriction. This understanding has been progressively changing, as the struggle of minorities for equally fair conditions gains space in society. Based on this perspective and in the expectation of better understanding the reality of people with disabilities in the regional scenario, the question that underpins this research arises and unfolds into: “What are the possibilities and challenges for the implementation of the actions of the Municipal Councils for the Defense of Human Rights? Of People with Disabilities in Itajubá and microregion”? Thus, the general objective of the research is to analyze the actions of the Municipal Councils for the rights of people with disabilities in the micro-region of Itajubá. As for the methodology, it is a research with a qualitative approach, through field research, with data collected through narrative interviews, with semi-structured scripts, directed at council members in the micro-region of Itajubá. In order to contextualize the theme and provide a theoretical foundation for the analysis, this work permeates the legal and political frameworks of the social history of the individual with a disability, as well as an understanding of the reality of this segment in our region. Results point out the challenges of the Municipal Council for the Defense of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the city of Itajubá regarding actions and the slowness to implement municipal public policies aimed at PCD, since in no other surrounding city was such a body constituted. People with disabilities still face difficulties in accessing formal education, the job market, the defense of their rights, as well as the difficulty in their full social participation. Individuals with disabilities need to be removed from the invisibility and isolation that prevent them from expanding their capabilities and having access to social, cultural and political opportunities; and a minority of people with disabilities are aware of or benefit from the Council for the Right to Persons with Disabilities in their city to strengthen and value this segment and build a more egalitarian society.