The newest World Report of UNESCO is focused on cultural diversity as a source of renewal for public policies in service to development, social cohesion and peace.Culturaldiversity is addressed in terms of dialogue, dynamics, and the newspecific challenges it may pose for languages, educational systems,news and entertainment media and the business world.Basedon the analysis of recent initiatives, concrete examples, case studiesand successful practices, this report advances a number of pathwaysworth exploring for renewing development strategies in favour ofpoverty eradication, environmental action and sustainable,human-centred governance.TheWorld Report aims to address the manifold aspects of culturaldiversity, critically review common notions and assumptions, andpropose policy-oriented recommendations on topics as diverse asidentities and dialogue, the future of languages and interculturaleducation, media pluralism and cultural industries, the business world,local knowledge, biodiversity, sustainable development, governance andhuman rights.Arenewed discussion of cultural diversity – the promotion and protectionof which are supported by an array of normative instruments – is timelyin these times of crisis. The impacts of globalization (and increasingurbanization and migration) are challenging our very understanding ofcultures and identities. In this sense, cultural diversity is a muchmore complex phenomenon than it initially appears, as are therelationships between globalization and cultural diversity. As theseare facts with which we must contend, it is of utmost importance todayto create the conditions upon which cultural diversity can become themeans for ensuring dialogue and peaceful co-existence, and sustainableand fruitful development.Whilethe promotion of cultural diversity has taken on increasing visibilityon the international scene, it often continues to be perceived as athreat to the cohesion of increasingly diversified societies. Hence,the necessity of elucidating the conditions upon which culturaldiversity can constitute a positive contribution to realizing theobjectives of development and peace.
El informe del Defensor del pueblo 2009, sobre centros de protección de menores con trastornos de conducta y situación de dificultad social, en el que se muestra
“la realidad de los jóvenes que están ingresados en estos centros de acogimiento residencial por tener graves problemas de inadaptación familiar y social, vinculados muchas veces a trastornos de conducta o incluso a patologías psiquiátricas, y a los que se les niega, en demasiadas ocasiones, el papel que les correspondería como protagonistas de su propia historia” (2009: 6).
