Maella He prepares for an August marked by bullfighting acts. Among all the program, there has been an activity that has generated controversy: the child bullfighting show “We are going to play bulls.” So much so that the Franz Weber Foundation has requested this Thursday the cancellation of this show, promoted by the town hall, considering that it implies “the violation of up to two objections made by the Committee on the Rights of the Child”.
Likewise, the Foundation has considered that this call and the possibility that minors access the release and bullfight are “obviously contrary to international warnings and are carried out with institutional support, putting these groups at risk.”
Avoid the participation of children in bullfighting
FFW recalled that in 2018 the committee asked Spain Avoid the participation or presence of children and adolescents in bullfighting, including this application in their final observations: “To prevent the harmful effects for children in the bull show, the Committee recommends that the State Party prohibit the participation of children under 18 as bullfighters and as a public in bullfighting shows.”
In this way, the Foundation has assured that their requests “have an obvious lace in the exposure to violence suffered Aragon “They are intersped for them.”
Finally, FFW has influenced the link between exposure to violence on animals such as “a predictor of negative behaviors in other areas” therefore, “seeing or participating in bullfighting is not a harmless behavior for people whose social and moral development is effervescent,” they have concluded.
