Podem pulls out of Colau-backed coalition party
• One week after unity accord, Podemos affiliate pulls out of coalition process • Podem dissident faction’s entry in coalition leadership elections…
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Hazte Oir’s transphobic message meets with resistance
• Ultra-Catholic group’s message deemed hate-speech, discriminatory in Spain • Activists attack bus in New York, as group tries to internationalize its…
Podem agrees to join united Catalan progressive party
• Podem to join Barcelona en Comú, other parties in progressive formation • Move will transform En Comú Podem electoral coalition into…
Mas fined, barred from office over Catalan referendum
• Mas found guilty of promoting unconstitutional independence referendum • Former Catalan president fined, barred from public office for two years In…
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…
U.S. expats in Spain to protest Trump inauguration
• Women’s Marches scheduled for Saturday 21st January in Barcelona, Granada • Inauguration Day protest in Valencia, march in Madrid set for…
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…
#VIDEO: Proactiva Open Arms gives voice to refugees
• Barcelona-based refugee rescue group videos let refugees tell own stories • Since 2015, Proactiva has rescued refugees stranded at sea in…
Oxfam Intermón to open new charity shops in Spain
• Spanish affiliate of global NGO to open shops in Madrid, Barcelona this week • NGO drive to increase funding sees 50…
Podemos rejects unilateral Catalan referendum
• EnComúPodem calls for new elections rather than go-it-alone plebiscite • 59pct of Catalans want accord with central gov’t over independence vote…
Vatican mayors’ summit calls for refugee sanctuary
• European mayors to create ‘network of cities’ for refugee relief, resettlement • Despite Spanish government opposition, ‘Mayors of Change’ pledge support…
Nationwide rallies Dec. 12th to protest war in Syria
• Facebook campaign goes viral, anti-war demonstrations to be held in 13 cities • Peaceful rallies to focus on plight of 470,000 war…
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 looks to restore Historical Memory funding
• Protests over Madrid street names on anniversary of dictator Franco’s death • Opposition parties seen ready to reverse budget cuts to…
#VIDEO: Guardiola ‘joins’ NGO refugee rescue team
• Manchester City manager backs Proactiva’s refugee rescue in Mediterranean • Since 2015, Barcelona-based NGO has rescued thousands of refugees at sea…
Rajoy to postpone controversial testing of students
• Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers & parents protest LOMCE law • Acting-PM pledges postponement of ‘reválidas’ for ESO, ‘bachillerato’ students…
Catalonia drops psychiatric test for transexuals
• Move announced as part of region’s desire to ‘de-pathologise’ transexuality • Special unit set up in Barcelona to handle all gender…
NGOFILE: UNICEF Comité Español ~ UNICEF Spain
• Unicef España ~ United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund Spain • UNICEF Comité Español is the Spanish National Committee for the United…
‘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…
NGOFILE: UNICEF Comité Español ~ UNICEF Spain
• Unicef España ~ United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund Spain • UNICEF Comité Español is the Spanish National Committee for the United…
PSC leadership race: It’s ‘No’ to Rajoy, whoever wins
• Current leader Iceta faces off against Gramanet mayor Parlón in tight race • Both candidates pledge to reverse PSC’s decade-long slide…
Not everyone in Spain exalts Hispanic Heritage Day
• Madrid and Barcelona mayors, Podemos’ Iglesias avert celebrations today • Catalan nationalists claim sovereignty, solidarity with indigenous America “In fourteen hundred…
Activists protest return of bullfighting to Catalonia
• Constitutional Court said ready to overturn Catalan law banning bullfighting • Animal-rights activists mobilize with petitions, call for nationwide protests Animal…
NGOFILE :: FAADA ~ Foundation for Advice and Action in Defense of Animals
• Fundació para el Asesoramiento y Acción en Defensa de los Animales (FAADA) ~ Foundation for Advice and Action in Defense of…
Catalan gov’t to identify Civil War victims using DNA
• DNA samples to be taken from relatives of 4,700 victims of ‘Franquismo’ • Samples to be tested by forensic experts against…
NGOFILE :: FAADA ~ Foundation for Advice and Action in Defense of Animals
• Fundació para el Asesoramiento y Acción en Defensa de los Animales (FAADA) ~ Foundation for Advice and Action in Defense of…
NGOFILE :: Fundació Arrels
• Fundació Arrels ~ Arrels Foundation • The Fundació Arrels (Arrels Foundation) is a Barcelona-based non-governmntal organisation founded in 1987 and dedicated…
NGOFILE :: Médicos Sin Fronteras ~ Doctors Without Borders
• Médicos Sin Fronteras ~ Doctors Without Borders • Médicos Sin Fronteras (or Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF), known in English as “Doctors…
NGOFILE :: InfoCircos
• InfoCircos ~ InfoCircuses • InfoCircos, literally “Info Circuses,” is a coalition of organizations working in Spain to promote the protection of…
NGOFILE :: Oxfam Intermón
• Oxfam Intermón • Oxfam Intermón is the affiliate in Spain of the international development aid organisation Oxfam. Originally founded in 1956…
NGOFILE :: SOS Galgos ~ SOS Greyhounds
• SOS Galgos ~ SOS Greyhounds • SOS Galgos was founded in Barcelona in the year 2000 and works to defend the…