Aid NGOs fear negative fallout from Oxfam Haiti scandal
► Widening scandal threatens to undermine humanitarian work of all NGOs ► Spain’s umbrella federation of overseas development aid and humanitarian relief…
► Widening scandal threatens to undermine humanitarian work of all NGOs ► Spain’s umbrella federation of overseas development aid and humanitarian relief…
Cáritas Española is the Spanish affiliate of the Catholic church’s international charity and humanitarian relief agency Cáritas Inernational, working within Spain as…
► UN committee also calls for ban on under-18 minors witnessing bullfights ► A United Nations committee has issued a report critical…
? Report says connectivity costs put many children at risk of social exclusion ? Unicef Comité Español, the Spanish National Committee for…
► ‘Behind the emergency’ exhibit tours Spanish train station lobbies ’til April ► Acción contra el Hambre (Action Against Hunger), the Spanish…
► Children’s rights NGO says Rajoy gov’t has reneged on agreed legislation ► Save the Children España has launched a signature-gathering campaign…
► Website created through EDYTA training program for vulnerable women ► Spain’s community of gitanas (‘gypsy’ or Roma women) has been given…
► 8 percent of all households have trouble making monthly energy payments ► Faced with record cold temperatures in many parts of…
► Proposal seeks to ensure affordable housing, cap runaway rental prices ► Spain’s anti-evictions activist organization PAH (Plataforma de Afectados por la…
► Spain has more than 31,000 homeless, 8,000 permanently living on streets ► Actor Richard Gere urged Spain’s Senate on Wednesday to…
► Groups seek toys that shun violence and sexism, improve lives of children ► Non-governmental organizations in Spain have launched toy drives…
► Study ranks 25 best and 41 worst municipalities on social-services spending ► A newly released study on the provision of social…
• Central gov’t says NGOs to receive 10.2 mn in frozen social services funding • Funds part of Catalan gov’t budget said…
• Annual drive ensures 25,014 families get basic milk supply through year-end • Caixa says 350,000 children in Spain regularly go without…
• Rajoy gov’t tells Congress that 29.7pct of Spain’s children at risk of poverty • NGO say nearly 600,000 children of working…
• Projects tackle gender violence, poverty, social exclusion, hate speech & more • Social Innovation awards carry 15K euros prize money for…
• NGOs call on Spanish consumers to support fair and sustainable commerce • CECJ, CONGDE urge swapping ‘slacktivism’ for active support of…
• Despite uptick in household income, child poverty rate remains at 29.7 percent • Nearly 1/4 of Spaniards at risk of poverty,…
• PSOE says 2017 budget lacks funds to implement plan to combat homelessness • Rajoy govt agreed to national strategy in 2015,…
• Nearly half of all homeless experience aggression while living on city’s streets • Nearly 70 pct have health problems, two-thirds admit…
• More than 2,100 walkers raise 730,000 euros in 100-km trek through Catalonia • Additional Oxfam Intermón Trailwalker events planned for Vitoria,…
• Spain now ranked 26th of 28 European countries providing overseas aid • Development aid slashed 73 pct since 2008, despite return…
• Spain’s ranking on annual development survey slides one position to 1990 level • Women’s lot improves in areas of education, participation…
• Party to launch series of marches to push for full access to basic services • Podemos say politico-economic-media cabal denies to…
• Médicos del Mundo awards Luis Valtueña prize to Russian Sergei Stroitelev • 270 photographers from 45 counties in 2017 humanitarian photo…
• Zara chain’s Ortega, his daughter and Mercadona’s Roig top wealth pyramid • Oxfam Intermón says three own more than 14.2 million…
• NGOs say some 40,000 people living on streets across Spain exposed to cold • Energy poverty, social exclusion from affordable housing…
• 12 images by leading photographers present ’12 Views of Solidarity’ for 2017 • Umbrella organization represents 78 national, regional NGOs throughout…
• Spanish affiliate of global NGO to open shops in Madrid, Barcelona this week • NGO drive to increase funding sees 50…
• Normal restaurant by day, serves 100 Madrid homeless in two shifts each night • ‘Social restaurants’ concept to open in Toledo, Ciudad…
• Number of those leaving funds to NGOs, charities triples over past decade •’Legado Solidario’ sees boom in legacy gifts to social-justice…