NGOs urge regard for children’s health in confinement
Non-governmental organizations working to promote and defend children’s rights in Spain have urged the government to ease the coronavirus lockdown restrictions on…
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Medical NGOs pitch in to help Spain fight coronavirus
Non-government organizations specializing in medical assistance and disease prevention are doing their part to help stop COVID-19 in Spain, deploying to the…
NGOs take on food delivery to most vulnerable in crisis
Municipal governments nationwide have registered a veritable avalanche of requests for emergency aid and distribution of food to the most vulnerable, many…
NGOs combat FGM among African migrant communities
The government of President Pedro Sánchez has added its voice to non-governmental organizations working to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation…
NGOs demand probe over Vox anti-immigrant videos
Seven Spanish non-governmental organizations have called on the government’s Fiscalia General attorney general’s office to investigate whether controversial election campaign videos produced…
NGOs demand action from Congress on climate change
► Environmental groups join call for comprehensive climate-change legislation ► Groups urge symbolic declaration of international climate-change emergency More than two-dozen leading…
NGOs urge social justice agenda for election manifestos
Spanish non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have called on the country’s political parties to include commitments to social justice in their party manifestos in…
NGOs’ campaign effort aims to make homeless visible
In the run-up to the nationwide Dia de las Personas Sin Hogar (Homeless Persons’ Day) on Sunday 25th November, four Spanish non-governmental…
Spain NGOs seek increase in overseas development aid
An umbrella federation of more than 80 Spanish NGOs working on development projects and providing humanitarian assistance around the world has called…
NGOs launch mobile app to combat discrimination
A national network of 18 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) defending the rights and promoting the inclusion of immigrants and refugees in Spain has…
NGOs protest Spanish arms sales on eve of Saudi visit
A coalition of peace, human rights and development NGOs has called on Spain’s monarchy and government not to authorize an estimated 2-billion-euro…
PP gov’t advances overseas aid plan rejected by NGOs
► Government to hold 2018 foreign aid spending to lowest levels since 1980s ► Spain’s governing Partido Popular (PP) has relied on…
Aid NGOs fear negative fallout from Oxfam Haiti scandal
► Widening scandal threatens to undermine humanitarian work of all NGOs ► Spain’s umbrella federation of overseas development aid and humanitarian relief…
NGOs mark Tarajal border tragedy with call for justice
► CEAR, AI lead commemoration of migrants’ deaths in Ceuta border crossing ► Spanish NGOs working to protect the rights of immigrants…
NGOs enlist ADIF to educate about humanitarian relief
► ‘Behind the emergency’ exhibit tours Spanish train station lobbies ’til April ► Acción contra el Hambre (Action Against Hunger), the Spanish…
NGOs, trade unions demand action on LGBTI legislation
► LGBTI Equality Law currently stalled in congressional amendment process ► Twenty-six Spanish non-governmental organisations and trade unions have called on political…
NGOs call on Spain to cut pesticides 50% in 10 years
► Groups urge gov’t to follow lead of France, Denmark in reducing chemicals ► A dozen non-governmental environmental organizations in Spain have…
NGOs urge more action on migrant, refugee relocation
► On Int’l Migrants Day, NGOs demand better conditions, attention to minors ► Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working with migrants and refugees have…
NGOs launch holiday toy drives with social conscience
► Groups seek toys that shun violence and sexism, improve lives of children ► Non-governmental organizations in Spain have launched toy drives…
Spain releases millions in funding for Catalan NGOs
• Central gov’t says NGOs to receive 10.2 mn in frozen social services funding • Funds part of Catalan gov’t budget said…
NGOs urge Spain to do more to stop migrant drownings
• Drownings of 49 migrants off Spain’s coast boosts first-half 2017 total to 109 • Across Mediterranean, 2,000 have died so far…
Spanish NGOS tell gov’t ‘No More Excuses’ over refugees
• NGOs join ‘Queremos Acoger Ya’ platform to demand gov’t accept refugees • Madrid protest march called Sat 17th June from Plaza…
Environmental NGOs urge pesticide bans to save bees
• Greenpeace delivers 400,000 ‘Save the Bees’ signatures to gov’t ministry • Activists push for ban on Glysophate, most commonly used pesticide…
NGOs caution children, families still at risk of poverty
• Despite uptick in household income, child poverty rate remains at 29.7 percent • Nearly 1/4 of Spaniards at risk of poverty,…
Refugees trapped by U.S., EU limits on asylum, say NGOs
• Oxfam Intermón, CEAR say Spain not doing enough to help stranded refugees • Increased U.S., EU restrictions seen hitting Syrian refugees…
NGOs press EU lawmakers on rabbit-farming conditions
• Animal-rights orgs say millions of animals suffering in cages across Europe • NGOs press EU parliament to impose sanitary norms in unregulated industry Spanish…
Church NGOs, UNHCR decry state of migrant centres
• Catholic church, UN agencies condemn situation at North African centres • 6,400-plus migrants, asylum seekers passed through Ceuta and Melilla in…
More Spaniards leaving legacy gifts to NGOs
• Number of those leaving funds to NGOs, charities triples over past decade •’Legado Solidario’ sees boom in legacy gifts to social-justice…
NGOs call for pact against poverty, social exclusion
• Government minister urged to move quickly to reduce poverty, inequalities • Umbrella NGO group faults political deadlock for increased social exclusion…
NGOs contest Felipe VI’s remarks at UN on refugees
• Spain not ‘doing everything in its power’ to help refugees, say leading NGOs • Groups cite rights of asylum, failure to…
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…