More LGBT applicants among 2017 asylum seekers
Spanish immigration authorities rejected two-thirds of all asylum petitions received in 2017, a year in which the number of applicants for asylum…
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Balearics bloodless bullfights get temporary reprieve
Pending a final decision from Spain’s Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of a 2017 law in the Balearic Islands that prohibits bulls…
Catalonia: CUP sinks Puigdemont substitute strategy
► UPDATE: CUP ABSTAINS, TURULL LOSES VOTE IN CATALAN PARLAMENT ► ► ANTI-CAPITALISTS HOLDING OUT FOR PUIGDEMONT OR NEW ELECTIONS ► In…
Judge sets Friday to formalize charges against Catalans
Supreme Court Justice Pablo Llarena announced Wednesday in Madrid that on Friday morning he will formalize charges ranging from misuse of public…
Pensioners’ nationwide protests to continue in Valencia
A series of rolling street protests by pensioners angry with the government over five straight years of miniscule rises in retirement benefits…
PP, Ciudadanos vote to block housing legislation
Representatives of the governing Partido Popular (PP) and centre-right ally Ciudadanos on the Mesa Directiva executive committee of Congress have voted to…
Is Spain’s Socialist party really divided … yet again?
Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) appears to be showing cracks in the leadership’s efforts to portray party unity, following the Phoenix-like return to…
Increase in minors among refugees cause for concern
The special representative of the Council of Europe’s general secretariat on migrations and refugees has announced a visit to Spain to look…
Residential tower blocks nightmare for disabled access
Nearly 70 percent of all Spaniards live in residential apartment buildings, making it the country with the greatest number of apartment-dwellers anywhere…
EU’s human rights tribunal: Spain’s court of last resort
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last week rejected a request for an injunction filed by pro-independence supporters of former…
Endesa increases wind energy production in Canaries
Energy giant Endesa says it increased generation of electricity from wind power last year in Spain’s Canary Islands by 1.4 MW (megawatts),…
Is Catalonia heading toward new regional elections?
After a strategy meeting Wednesday in Brussels with legislators of his Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) movement, former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont has…
First Internat’l LGBT press association launched in Spain
The first international LGBT press association has been launched in Spain, focused on taking the promotion of LGBT inclusivity and the struggle…
Spain recycles more, but still dumping too much plastic
While Spain is improving its rate of recycling of plastic waste, the European plastics manufacturing industry association says the country is still…
Rajoy digs in, ties pensions rise to budget negotiations
After weeks of street protests across Spain to demand an increase in retirement pensions and a revamp of the way in which…
More women report violence, driving spike in 2017 stats
A sharp increase in reports of domestic violence incidents and victims in Spain last year appears to be the result of more…
Scout movement to go dark for WWF’s Earth Hour 2018
The Scouting movement in Spain has pledged its more than 35,000 boy and girl members to work to raise awareness about global…
Amnesty: Spain’s anti-terror laws curbing free speech
A new report from Amnistía Internacional España, the Spanish section of the global human-rights campaigning organization Amnesty International, has warned that free…
Gov’t nixes universal access funding for disabled, elderly
The Spanish government announced Monday it is vetoeing legislation proposed in Congress by the Socialist party (PSOE) that would have created a…
Animal-rights party calls rally in support of ‘Ley Cero’
Spain’s Partido Animalista, known by the initials PACMA (Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal), has convened a protest rally for Thursday in…
After 8-M: Is Spanish society ‘machista’ or ‘feminista’?
Following work stoppages and massive rallies across the country on Thursday that denounced gender violence and the pay gap between men and…
NGOFILE :: SOS Racismo
SOS Racismo (SOS Racism) is an umbrella movement of eight distinct organizations, officially known as the national Federation of Associations of SOS…
Hundreds of thousands march on women’s day in Spain
► Nearly 6 million stopped work, marches took place in more than 120 cities ► Hundreds of thousands of women and supporters…
Unidos Podemos follows PSOE in education pact walkout
► Unidos Podemos says PP stalling education reforms, calls for street protests ► Following the lead of the Socialist party (PSOE) one…
PSOE, Podemos, C’s join forces on party finance reform
► Surprise move angers PP, also mandates party primaries in all elections ► In a surprise move on Wednesday, representatives of the…
Women to strike Thursday for equal pay, gender equality
► 82pct of Spaniards support strike demands of equal pay, gender quality ► Tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of women throughout…
Education pact wobbles after Socialists stage walkout
► Congress subcommittee work halted after PP, Ciudadanos ignore demands ► Education reform in Spain hit a snag on Tuesday after Socialist…
PSOE to call Rajoy’s hand on gender-violence funding
► Measures would force extraordinary decree to free up 200mn euros funding ► In an effort to force the hand of President…
Online Islamophobia jumps sharply in 2017, says report
► Anti-Islamic incidents, including ‘fake news’ & harassment, up 111 percent ► Online dissemination of false news reports and harassment against Muslims…
Groups urge rural women to support 8-M feminist strike
► Rural women in Spain face even greater inequalities at workplace, in home ► Associations representing women in agricultural areas of Spain…
Catalonia: CUP torpedoes Puigdemont stand-in Sánchez
► Far-left party sends pro-independence coalition back to drawing board ► True to form, Catalonia’s far-left Candidatura d’Unitat Popular (CUP) party on…