A manifesto promoted from within the Universidade da Coruña rejects the decision of cancel the controversial sessions on Sex Work that were going to be held in Sociology. There are already more than half a thousand firms that support this document, among them, members of the teaching, administration and services staff and former heads of different areas of university management.
Point to the manifest For a UDC with its own light that no pressure group can claim the right to impose a veto on certain people, groups or ideas on the public university. Add that cancellation deprives participants of their rights and freedoms, and that this may be extended in the future to other people with the same arguments used by the university in its statement.
The manifesto joins that of one hundred national and international university professors, professors and researchers who also criticize the cancellation. They point out that it is a serious violation of the right to freedom of expression at the university level, it questions academic freedom and sets a dangerous precedent. The organizer of the conference has ensured that they will eventually be held, even if it is in another location.
The cancellation has also been censored by the member of the University’s Center for Gender and Feminism Studies, Cristina Bajo.
Openly censors the decision of the Rector and Faculty to suspend the day. She defends the abolition of prostitution, but understands that the debate cannot be prevented and those who hold different positions can be given a voice. Alludes to a brutal pressure on the University to make the decision it ultimately did.
Amelia Tiganus, former prostitute, who participates this afternoon in a conference in Ferrol in favor of abolition, supports the cancellation.
So far, the Rectorate, the dean and the Office of Equality of the University are silent after the release of the statement late yesterday.
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