Campaign targets ‘digital gender violence’ among teens
• Video to raise awareness of ‘Ten Forms of Digital Gender Violence’ among teens • 1/3 of young Spaniards subject to abusive…
Women’s Rights
Spain gets mixed review in 2016 UN development report
• Spain’s ranking on annual development survey slides one position to 1990 level • Women’s lot improves in areas of education, participation…
Valencia ‘Fallas’ tribute to women, LGBT community
• Tuesday’s ‘mascleta’ fireworks display honored LGBT and women’s struggles • Valencia’s weeklong festival culminates in burning of giant ‘fallas’ statues Valencia’s…
Women win lawsuit against Ryanair in Spain
• Malaga court rules Ryanair’s ‘Red Hot Fares & Crews’ sexist, unlawful in Spain • Feminist groups laud decision on adverts, banned…
Abuse victims to get parole warnings via SMS
• Women at risk to receive SMS messages before attackers released from jail • Program alerts gender-violence victims to change in attacker’s…
#VIDEO: Ygualex app targets youth gender violence
• Mobile app seeks to stem harassment, violence against school-age girls, teens • Available for Android & iOS, app lets users get…
Socialists decry PP cuts to gender-equality funding
• PSOE condemns gender-equality funding cuts for small-businesses, universities • Socialists say cuts show PP sees equal-pay, rights for women as unimportant…
Sexual assault charges on rise at Spain’s campuses
• Professor suspended at Complutense over complaints by six graduate students • Allegations of cover-ups in Barcelona, Sevilla amid general climate of…
Survey shows high rates of university sexual assault
• Survey shows 62 pct of students suffered or know victims of sexual assault • Victims are 92 pct women, agressors 62…
Spanish Volunteer Platform issues 2017 calendar
• 12 images by leading photographers present ’12 Views of Solidarity’ for 2017 • Umbrella organization represents 78 national, regional NGOs throughout…
Progressive Spain’s Top Ten Video Posts for 2016
Following are 2016’s ‘Top Ten Videos’ posted at Progressive Spain … for your viewing pleasure over the year-end holidays … See you…
Orange to honor ‘Women & Technology’ again in 2017
• Telecoms multinational Orange opens nominations for 2nd annual prize • Award honors women who develop technology solutions to better society Spain’s Fundación…
PP stalls gender-violence funding increase in Senate
• PP absolute majority blocks opposition move to restore funding to 2010 levels • Party says only that it will assign ‘sufficient’…
Thousands rally against gender violence in Spain
• Marches, rallies and proclamations against gender violence held nationwide • News of latest murder brings total of gender violence victims to…
Congress set to broaden gender-violence legislation
• Measures introduced by PSOE and PP to strengthen 2004 gender-violence law • Parties seek greater protection, tougher sanctions against ‘machista’ violence…
Starting today, women in Spain working for free
• UGT says women work 54 days more than men for same annual earnings • Union launches #YoTrabajoGratis (‘I Work for Free’)…
Activists seek action on equality, gender violence
• Feminist groups demand ‘Equality Ministry’, reform of gender-violence law • Congress likely to reform law, but budget cuts leave initiatives underfunded…
Official says false gender-violence testimony a myth
• President of Domestic & Gender Violence agency says false charges very rare • Agency says gender violence complaints, convictions rose during…
‘Adelante’ leaders seek more inclusive Podemos
• ‘Adelante’ platform wants broader ideological, gender diversity in Podemos • See move further left, abandoning social-democratic centre as mistake for party…
#VIDEO: Art centre replaces Franco women’s prison
• Galerias exhibition at Segovia’s La Carcel art centre through 16th October • Contemporary art space focuses on women, repression and resistance…
#VIDEO: Trafficking, sex slavery problem in Spain
• Médicos del Mundo say 14,000 women victims of sex traffickers in Spain • Madrid’s Universidad Pontificia says 30-40,000 at risk of…
Spain again tops Europe in pct. of women legislators
• 39.42 pct of Congress seats held by women, surpassing 37 pct in Strasbourg • Women Deputies’ presence far above 25 pct…
Expert lays blame for gender violence on politicians
• Former gov’t official says politicians failing to tackle violence against women • Spaniards shrug-off gender violence, while each year more men…
NGOFILE :: Women’s Link Worldwide
• Women’s Link Worldwide • Women’s Link Worldwide is an international organization with offices in Spain and Latin America that uses the…
Rape, sexual assaults protested at ‘Running of Bulls’
• Women’s and citizens’ groups protest increase in sexual assault during festival • Police arrest 12 male suspects, including five who filmed…
NGOFILE: Coordinadora Feminista
• Coordinadora Feminista ~ Federación Estatal de Organizaciones Feministas • Feminist Coordinating Council ~ National Federation of Feminist Organisations Spain’s Federación Estatal…
Oxfam begins anti-poverty program within Spain
• Oxfam Intermón to fund local NGOs working with migrants, women & children • Prevention of gender violence, counseling for domestic abuse…
Women with disabilities at risk of gender violence
• NGO working with disabled women found 247 cases of gender violence in 2015 • Women with disabilities find it difficult to…
Cardinal’s controversial remarks trigger inquest
• Fiscalía opens investigation into alleged homophobic, anti-feminist comments • Valencia Archbishop said one of most conservative of Spain’s Catholic prelates The…
Pilot workplace protocol combats gender violence
• Co-workers help gender violence victims come forward, seek assistance • Nearly 3/4 of gender violence-related murders occur in towns, smaller cities…
Lawyers acclaimed in fight against gender violence
• Prosecuting attorneys’ work seen as ‘fundamental’ to combating abuse • Specialists in gender violence, domestic abuse assisted 47,000 women in 2015…