Children in Mexico Still Fight Bulls Despite Prohibition by United Nations Committee Mexico News Daily
go to original November 30, 2016

Child Bullfighters in Mexico (VICE)

Children fighting in the bullring is seen on one hand as an odious form of child labor. On the other it can be the fulfillment of a dream.

But the fact is that municipal and state governments throughout Mexico are violating an observation issued by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 17 months ago, which described children participating in bullfights as “one of the worst forms of child labor.”

In June 2015 the CRC asked the Mexican government to adopt measures to enforce the prohibition of children from participating in bullfights, in both training and performance.

The UN observation concluded by expressing the hope that the measures would help “raise awareness with regard to the physical and mental violence associated with bullfighting.”

Complying with observations issued by the CRC is mandatory for all UN member nations. But the young bullfighters themselves, and their parents, have a different view.

“We will continue. I will defend my son’s dream like any other mother would do if her son wanted to be a soccer player, or a swimmer or to practice karate. My son wants to be a bullfighter and I will support him,” said Elsa Guadalupe Enríquez, mother of Alejandro “El Castelita” Moreno.

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