Adif brings Fair Trade to railway travelers this week
• Products from farmers, coops in Africa, Asia and Latin America available • Campaign to raise awareness about fair trade, development &…
Fair Trade & Development Aid
Spanish foreign development aid falls to 1980 levels
• Fourth-largest Eurozone economy gives just 0.13% of GDP to development aid • 19th of 28 in Europe, Spain less generous than…
NGOFILE: Coordinadora Estatal de Comercio Justo (CECJ) ~ National Fair-Trade Coordinating Council
• Coordinadora Estatal de Comercio Justo (CECJ) ~ National Fair-Trade Coordinating Council • Spain’s Coordinadora Estatal de Comercio Justo (CECJ, or ‘National…
Anti-poverty, free trade protests set across Spain
• Anti-poverty activists, anti-free trade platforms unite for week of protests • Madrid, Valencia marches Saturday to mark global day for poverty…
Spain fair-trade purchases up, still lag rest of Europe
• Fair-trade foodstuffs comprise 93% of 35 million euros consumed in 2015 • 20% of Spaniards bought fair-trade last year, but avg…
NGOFILE :: Acción contra el Hambre ~ Action Against Hunger
• Acción contra el Hambre ~ Action Against Hunger (ACT International) Acción contra el Hambre is the Spanish affiliate of international non-governmental…
Spain celebrates global humanitarian aid workers
• Since 2006, Spain’s ‘Dia del Cooperante’ celebrates overseas aid workers • Despite cuts, Spanish NGOs still provide humanitarian aid in 110…
NGOFILE :: CONGDE ~ Coordinating Council of Development NGOs of Spain
• Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo de España (CONGDE) ~ Coordinating Council of Development NGOs of Spain • The Coordinadora de…
NGOFILE :: Oxfam Intermón
• Oxfam Intermón • Oxfam Intermón is the affiliate in Spain of the international development aid organisation Oxfam. Originally founded in 1956…
NGOFILE :: Plan Internacional España
• Plan Internacional España ~ Plan International Plan Internacional España is the Spanish affiliate of Plan International (also known simply as “Plan”),…
Spaniards’ global solidarity exceeds rest of Europe
• Pew Research report sees Spaniards more outward-looking than rest of Europe • Spaniards prefer rights, aid, diplomacy to military in resolving…
Greenpeace scales Madrid towers to protest TTIP
• Greenpeace activists unfurl banner calling for halt to EU-US TTIP trade deal • Action follows on Greenpeace Netherlands’ leak of TTIP…
Fair Trade Challenge wants Spain to take a break!
• World FairTrade Challenge 2016 set for May 13-15th worldwide • Supporters to host fair-trade coffee break with friends, family or co-workers…
Annual EU survey shows Spaniards among most favorable toward increasing EU development aid
• 78% of Spaniards support EU aid, 26% would like to see funding increase • Spaniards are among the greatest supporters within…
Fair Trade activists celebrate 30th anniversary of 1986 launch of first ‘Comercio Justo’ shops in Spain
• First Fair Trade shops opened in Cordoba, Donostia-San Sebastián in 1986 • Spain’s National Fair Trade Coordinating Council (Coordinadora Estatal de…
Europe’s ‘Plan B’ anti-austerity campaign is headed for Madrid, gains support from Spanish Left leaders
• Leaders of Spanish Left sign onto pan-European anti-austerity campaign • Barcelona mayor and leader of the Barcelona en Comú activist platform…
Barcelona-based Privalia and UNICEF net 600,000 euros in ‘Future for Children’ fundraising campaign
• Privalia partnership with UNICEF to benefit children worldwide • Spanish online fashion outlet Privalia and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)…
Oxfam Intermón calls on Spain’s next government to make poverty alleviation, overseas aid top priorities
• NGO says overseas aid alleviates root causes of refugees, economic migration • Fight against poverty, inequality at home should be government’s…
Spanish NGOs seek to raise awareness on fair trade, rights & environment with holiday selfies campaign
• CECJ promotes fair-trade holiday gifts with #MejorconComercioJusto contest • Campaign to highlight value of fair trade, rights & environmental protection A…
Basque NGOs denounce cutbacks in regional government’s support for international aid projects
• Federation of 80 non-governmental agencies rallies in Vitoria • Groups say 2015 gov’t commitment falls far short of agreed funding A…
Spanish fair trade group asks political parties to focus on sustainable, just commerce in campaigns
• Group wants fairer business and trade practices at home and abroad • Foreign trade deals should incorporate environment, labor & human…
País Vasco launches Elkarlan awards for citizen-led social projects
The Basque regional government has announced the launch of the first edition of its annual Elkarlan awards, to be granded to the…