Spanish teens develop app to protect women from harm
► Team of Madrid-area high school students develop ‘When&Where’ mobile app ► App to protect women, girls from assault reaches finals in…
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Ciudadanos leaders ousted from Madrid pride parade
► Centre-right party blocked by protesters, chants of No Pasaran! at pride event ► Critics complain of Ciudadanos alliances with far-right, anti-LGBT…
Judge blocks changes to Madrid anti-pollution plan
► Court will hear environmentalist lawsuit, halts proposed changes to plan ► Motorists again face fines for circulating downtown without required permits…
Madrileños protest changes to city’s air-pollution plan
► Thousands march through capital to protest changes to ‘Madrid Central’ plan ► Critics say Mayor aims to dismantle program to combat…
PP’s ‘Madrid Central’ U-turn defies EU air-quality norms
► New mayor’s first measure to cancel fines for non-permitted vehicle traffic ► Critics say nixing ‘Madrid Central’ measures risks air-quality conflict…
Right to die with dignity erupts into elections campaign
The arrest of a 70-year-old Madrid man for illegally having assisted in the death of his 61-year-old terminally ill wife has thrust…
New norms aim to slash number of Madrid tourist flats
Madrid’s city council approved regulations on Wednesday that will require private owners of tourist flats in the city centre to obtain the…
Podemos avoids direct clash with Errejón, ‘Más Madrid’
Podemos has backed away from a direct confrontation with party co-founder Íñigo Errejón, following his decision to campaign in upcoming Madrid regional…
Madrid seeks to prohibit use of animals in circus acts
Madrid’s city government has said it intends to modify an 18-year-old municipal animal protection law in order to ban circus acts using…
Podemos crisis as Errejón joins Carmena’s ‘Más Madrid’
The longtime simmering feud between Podemos party co-founders Íñigo Errejón and Pablo Iglesias over electoral strategies and political alliances erupted into crisis…
Madrid to index, set price limits on residential rentals
Madrid’s city council has ordered preparation of a study leading to the development of a price index to be used in setting…
‘Misión Abolición’ protest calls for end to bullfights
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Madrid Saturday to protest against bullfighting and to draw specific attention to the cruelty…
Madrid, Barcelona among world cities cutting emissions
Madrid and Barcelona have been named among 27 of the world’s largest cities that have managed to halt and reverse the increase…
Mayor confirms re-election bid on progressive platform
Madrid Mayor Manuela Carmena has confirmed that she intends to stand for re-election in May 2019 municipal elections in the nation’s capital,…
Spain fetes LGBTI Pride 2018 with marches, activities
Spain has joined the international LGBTI community’s celebration of Pride Month during June, kicking off a slate of celebrations and activities Thursday…
Madrid to appeal ‘Division Azul’ name change ruling
The Madrid municipal government has vowed to appeal a court ruling this week that Spain’s 2007 Historical Memory law does not require…
Alcalá to get Europe’s first solar-biomass heating plant
Alcalá de Henares in the Madrid regional community is slated to become the first city in Europe to provide heating to its…
Assaults, harassment of Madrid LGBT community on rise
Incidents of harassment, hate speech and physical assault against LGBT individuals in the regional community of Madrid grew by 34 percent in…
PSOE censure of PP’s Cifuentes pressures Ciudadanos
The Socialist party (PSOE) in the Madrid regional assembly says it is filing a motion of censure (“no confidence”) against regional President…
End in sight for Franco-era street signs saga in Madrid
The on-again, off-again saga of the Madrid municipal government’s effort to change the Franco era names of 52 streets in the Spanish…
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…
Women’s strike gets Catholic archbishop’s ‘imprimatur’
► Work stoppages, rallies, marches set for national Women’s Strike Thursday ► The national 8-M Huelga Feminina women’s strike scheduled for International…
Housing, anti-eviction rally to target PP headquarters
► Saturday march & rally in Madrid to protest PP blockage of legislation ► Anti-eviction activists and supporters of affordable housing will…
Activists say abused women twice-victimized by courts
► Groups decry lack of counsel, light sentences, scant protection from abusers ► A coalition of Spanish feminist associations have denounced mistreatment…
PSOE urges more gov’t action against genital mutilation
► Nearly 19,000 girls of African origin residing in Spain currently at risk ► Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) has called on the…
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…
EU issues air quality ultimatum to Spanish government
► Spain one of nine countries given until next week to fix pollution problem ► The European Union has again cautioned Spain…
PP-led Galicia assembly admits Franco regime ‘fascist’
► Spaniards sent to Nazi camps honoured on Holocaust Remembrance Day ► In what is seen as an unprecedented move by legislators…
Greenpeace spoofs Rajoy’s climate-change promises
► Activists unfurl banner critical of policies on renewables and climate change ► Activists from Greenpeace España unveiled a giant film poster…
Activists to commemorate Internat’l Animal Rights Day
► Igualdad Animal to mark IARD 2017, raising awareness over animal cruelty ► Hundreds of animal-rights activists are slated to gather in…