NGOFILE :: FEFFM ~ National Federation of Forums for Memory
• Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria (FEFFM) ~ National Federation of Forums for Memory • The Federación Estatal de Foros…
Human Rights
Spain fourth worldwide in guarding children’s rights
• KidsRights Index 2016 recognizes Spain’s protection of children’s rights • Annual index charts 163 countries on right to life, health, education…
Spaniards’ global solidarity exceeds rest of Europe
• Pew Research report sees Spaniards more outward-looking than rest of Europe • Spaniards prefer rights, aid, diplomacy to military in resolving…
Report says anti-gypsy sentiment still rife in Spain
• Rights group notes spike in anti-Roma slurs, incitement over the Internet • Gov’t failure to prosecute online hate crimes seen fueling…
Amnesty decries Spanish arms sales to Egypt regime
• Spain joins 11 other EU countries violating ban on arms sales to Al Sisi gov’t • Weapons, kit sold to Egypt…
Basques say Spain hinders Franco-era rights inquiry
• Legislators fault ‘delaying and obstructionist’ tactics over Franco-era abuses • Resolution says Rajoy gov’t blocking Argentine judge’s ongoing rights probe Legislators…
Pro-refugee demos to target 26-J election campaign
• NGOs, trade unions & political parties call for demonstrations nationwide • Groups target ‘World Refugee Day’ to make election issue of…
Amnesty’s Beltrán notes erosion of rights in Spain
• AI España director says next gov’t must overturn ‘Gag Law’, stop evictions • Globally, Spain should do more than simply sign…
Reporters Without Borders faults Spain’s ‘Gag Law’
• Spain gets ‘slight’ downgrade in Reporters Without Borders freedoms index • Fines against journalists, judicial reforms concern press freedom watchdogs Reporters…
Gov’t ignores judge’s request over Franco-era abuses
• Argentine judge’s request blocked by Justice Ministry, says victims’ group • Judge wants to interview 19 Franco-era officials for crimes against…
How free are Spaniards? Global ‘moral freedoms’ index ranks Spain 6th out of 160 nations worldwide
• Spain bests USA, Canada & Germany; Mexico rounds out ‘Top 10’ ranking • Spain has been ranked sixth among nations worldwide…
#VIDEO: Rock group La Raíz collaborates with DqD in calling for repeal of Spain’s ‘Gag Law’ [in Spanish]
• 50 percent of album’s download proceeds go to rights group’s work • Popular Spanish rock-and-roll band La Raíz has collaborated with political…
Argentine judge wants to question 19 Franco-era officials on rights abuses, crimes against humanity
• Judge Servini brings Franco-era rights investigation to Spain next month • Argentine judge Maria Servini has filed a request with the…
Women’s rights group files suit in Argentina over systematic Franco-era gender violence, rights abuse
• Complaint says ‘liberated’ and Republican women targeted under Franco • An international women’s rights organization based in Spain filed a complaint…
Amnesty criticizes Spain for restricting freedoms, ongoing evictions and mistreatment of immigrants
• Global rights report says Spain curtails freedoms of assembly, expression • Amnesty International (AI) has denounced the Spanish government in its…
EU Parliament commission to hear complaint against Spain over Franco-era rights allegations
• Complaint alleges Spain violates treaties by ignoring extradition requests • A European Parliament commission has agreed to hear a complaint that…
Compromís resolution in Valencia to call for halt to Spanish arms shipments where human rights at risk
• Saudi-purchased Spanish weapons linked to rights abuses in Syria, Yemen • Valencia’s Compromís coalition says it will introduce a resolution in…
Activists, Spanish government say 17,000 girls of African descent at risk of female genital mutilation
• Activists say girls under age 15 at risk in Spain may number up to 24,000 • Spain’s government Council of Ministers…
Spanish rights activists applaud extradition order, arrests over 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador
• Atlacatl Batallion officer said to have ordered murders among arrested • The Spanish human rights organization which filed charges that led…
Fair Trade activists celebrate 30th anniversary of 1986 launch of first ‘Comercio Justo’ shops in Spain
• First Fair Trade shops opened in Cordoba, Donostia-San Sebastián in 1986 • Spain’s National Fair Trade Coordinating Council (Coordinadora Estatal de…
Removal of Franco-era monuments in Madrid sparks controversy and challenge from regional government
• Monuments honor military, civilians & politicians killed by Republicans • A precipitous move by the Culture Secretary of the municipality of…
Madrid to drop Franco-era names of streets and plazas, honoring victims of terrorism, rights abuses
• Conservative PP only party against move to turn page on Franco era • The Madrid municipal council has voted to approve…
Amnesty files lawsuit in Mexico over rights abuses, ‘crimes against humanity’ during Spanish Civil War
• Lawsuit on behalf of family of Spanish railway worker disappeared in 1936 • Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have…
Ian Gibson reflects on García Lorca, eight decades since the poet’s 1936 execution by Franco’s police
• Re-release of Gibson’s full works on Lorca to coincide anniversary of death • The world’s foremost scholar on the poet Federico…
Excavation team begins Spain’s first court-ordered exhumation of Franco-era mass grave in Guadalajara
• Timoteo Mendieta believed buried at a 1939 mass gravesite in Guadalajara • It took an Argentine court order and the cooperation…
#VIDEO: Jesuit Migration Services (SJM) launches ‘Hospitalidad’ pro-refugees campaign [in Spanish]
• Spain’s Jesuits launch campaign to help counter anti-refugee prejudice • Website www.Hospitalidad.es promotes solidarity with asylum seekers ► ► CLICK ABOVE…
#VIDEO: Amnesty International Spain thanks public for support during 2015 [in Spanish]
• Amnesty thanks Spanish supporters who worked on 2015 rights campaigns • Highlights success cases in Mexico, Salvador, Egypt, Nigeria & other…
Spanish judge orders arrest of 17 Salvadoran ex-military over 1989 murder of Jesuit priests
• Five Spanish Jesuits among victims of military raid and summary executions • A Spanish federal judge has issued an international arrest…
UN refugees commissioner says Melilla centre
falls short of meeting basic human rights standards
• UN representative says Spain’s Melilla CETI fails to meet EU and UN guidelines • Spain’s N. African centre meant to hold…
Police bust Russian sex-trafficking ring in Andalusia
forcing women into prostitution in Granada clubs
• Police say Russian women lured to Spain with promise of employment • Once in Granada, women forced to work in strip…
Film shows German Stuka bomber raids willfully killed Spanish civilians to test planes for WWII use
• Documentary to show German Stukas killed Spanish civilians in ‘practice’ raid • May 1938 Castellón aerial bombing solely to test Stukas…