Rural gender violence largely ignored, says AMFAR
• Rural women’s rights org notes 59 pct of 2017 deaths occurred in rural zones • Women living in small towns, villages…
Spain
Unidos Podemos to challenge PSOE over Rajoy censure
• Unidos Podemos coincides 20th May Madrid demo with PSOE leadership vote • Left coalition to use protest to confront Socialists over…
NGO protests penguin captivity in Madrid’s Fundia park
• Alma Animal says it’s time to stop being accomplices to animal exploitation • Short YouTube video shows penguins in captivity at…
Podemos, Sánchez separately call for Rajoy resignation
• Podemos call for censure motion in Congress knocked back by other parties •PSOE’s Pedro Sánchez again calls on Rajoy to step…
City of Madrid to remove 52 Franco-era street names
• Ahora Madrid, PSOE, Ciudadanos vote to remove signs glorifying Franco-era • After tense debate, Partido Popular’s Madrid city councilors abstain from…
Human Rights Watch slams Spain over LGBT asylum
• HRW says LGBT asylum applicants harassed, abused by CETI guards in Ceuta • NGO says Spain policy denies non-Syrian asylum seekers…
Police search homes of former Catalan president Pujol
• One day after Pujol’s son jailed, prosecutors focus on former Catalan president • Pujol clan investigated for money-laundering, tax fraud via…
Madrid removes Condor Legion cemetery monument
• Monument removed on 80th anniversary of Condor Legion’s Guernica bombing • Seven Condor Legion aviators reburied in simple, individually marked graves…
Amnesty Madrid 10k bike ride to urge #JusticeForSyria
• Amnistía cycle ride to shine light on Syria gov’t torture, extrajudicial killings • Rights NGO estimates 13,000 opponents of regime hung…
Sánchez: PSOE should call Rajoy to Congress over Gürtel
• Former party leader says Socialists should toughen position on PP corruption • PSOE interim head says Rajoy will be called before…
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,…
NGO sues gov’t to force compliance on refugees accord
• Stop Mare Mortum says gov’t has failed to meet legal obligations on refugees • NGO says case will go to Supreme…
Spanish LGBT groups to protest Chechnya persecution
• Activists to hold protest marches, rallies in Madrid, cities nationwide today • Chechnyan LGBT community facing pledge of ‘extermination’ by government…
PP Madrid’s Aguirre resigns amid party corruption probe
• Resignation follows arrest of Aguirre’s former right-hand man in Madrid region • Second high-level corruption probe in a week to rock…
Fascism dies slowly, as Franco-era minister buried
• Ex-Minister Utrera Molina was wanted for questioning on human rights charges • Mourners give Spanish fascist salute, sing banned Falangista ‘Cara…
PSOE’s Sánchez, Díaz battling for Catalan Socialists vote
• Second-largest Socialist affiliate party seen as key to PSOE leadership victory • Sánchez tells supporters ‘Spain is a nation of nations…
Oaks clear-cut by Aussie-owned uranium mine halted
• Activists, NGOs say oaks crucial to habitat of bird species in Natura 2000 zone • Open-pit uranium mining operation is subsidiary…
Oxfam, García Márquez fund target gender inequality
• Oxfam Intermón joins FNPI to offer grant for journalism on gender inequality • Three-judge panel to award $5,000 prize, publish work…
Rajoy called to testify in person at PP corruption trial
• Spain’s president to take stand over ‘Gürtel’ kickbacks allegedly funneled to PP • Rajoy to testify over what he knew as…
Court acquits Femen activists over 2013 Madrid protest
• Spanish Femen group staged protest to counter Catholic anti-abortion march • Judge says protest was legitimate, peaceable exercise of freedom of…
Socialists call on PP to begin funding homeless program
• PSOE says 2017 budget lacks funds to implement plan to combat homelessness • Rajoy govt agreed to national strategy in 2015,…
Podemos ‘Tramabus’ campaign denounces corruption
• Bus campaign depicts politicians, bankers party says have corrupted Spain • PSOE irked over depiction of ex-President Felipe González among ‘corruptos’…
Feminist, LGBT groups to protest surrogate pregnancies
• Umbrella group to protest proposed changes to Spanish law banning practice • 2010 loophole lets Spaniards register children born to surrogate…
PSOE leadership campaign officially launches
•Three-way race to decide leadership and future direction of Socialist party • Sánchez campaign complains of delays in receiving voter registration lists…
Spain more than 8,000 refugees short of EU pledge
• Spain has accepted 1,263 of 9,323 refugees it has pledged to accept since 2015 • European Commission faults processing slowdowns by…
Courts in Navarra, Cádiz rule against Republican flag
• In ongoing ‘War of the Flags’, PP government in Madrid wins temporary stays • Local authorities hoist ‘tricolor’ flag to reassert…
Lincoln Brigade to honor Proactiva refugee-rescue NGO
• Barcelona-based NGO to receive annual human rights award, US$100,000 prize • Sponsors cite history of Spanish Civil War refugees, Lincoln Brigade…
Podemos triggers crisis for PSOE in Castilla-La Mancha
• Podemos revolts over Socialist vetoes of amendments on social spending items • PSOE ‘Baron’ García-Page finds himself short two votes needed…
PSOE’s Sánchez says party must look to future, not past
• Former PSOE leader downplays old-guard leaders’ support for rival Susana Díaz • Sánchez says PSOE must adapt to new realities, become…
#VIDEO: Igualdad Animal launches Corte Inglés petition
• Animal-rights group wants end to sale of eggs from caged chickens by 2025 • Igualdad Animal issues video, petition to pressure…
Basque group ETA disarms, gov’t says ‘No’ to amnesty
• Armed group turns over 3.5 tonnes of guns, munitions in eight arms caches • Gov’t says ETA still a terrorist group,…