Oxfam files suit against Spain in Brussels over refugees
• Oxfam Intermón asks EC to make Spain comply with refugee commitment • NGO says Spanish gov’t has resettled just 13.7% of…
Refugees & Migration
Number of migrants reaching Spain not seen since 2008
• Rescues of migrants at sea have already topped total rescues for 2016 • Recovering Spanish economy, good weather conditions said to…
Pilar Bardem honored with ‘Film, Aid & Solidarity’ award
• ‘Academia de Cine’ cites decades of combining activism with TV, film career • Goya winner Bardem is also mother of actors…
#VIDEO: Macaco’s ‘Red Alerta’ highlights refugee plight
• Music video features Macaco, Tote King, Green Valley’s Ander & Aziza Brahim • Video response to drowning deaths of refugees trying…
NGOs urge Spain to do more to stop migrant drownings
• Drownings of 49 migrants off Spain’s coast boosts first-half 2017 total to 109 • Across Mediterranean, 2,000 have died so far…
#VIDEO: Proactiva shares rescued refugee’s nightmare
• Barcelona-based NGO posts story of Nigerian woman rescued in Mediterranean • Mirabel, age 24, captured by human traffickers, endures nightmare in…
Spanish police break up Nigerian sex-trafficking ring
• Nigerian women, girls subjected to voodoo, then trafficked via Libya, Italy • Forced to work in Europe as prostitutes to pay…
Spanish celebrities support CEAR pro-refugee campaign
• ‘Tu silla, Su refugio’ campaign seeks to raise awareness about refugee aid • Chairs designed by celebrities on exhibit at CaixaForum…
Ikea to provide job training to refugees across Spain
• Sweden’s global DIY home-furnishing chain extends helping hand to refugees • Ikea to start rollout of pilot employment program to all…
Spanish NGOS tell gov’t ‘No More Excuses’ over refugees
• NGOs join ‘Queremos Acoger Ya’ platform to demand gov’t accept refugees • Madrid protest march called Sat 17th June from Plaza…
Critics call out conditions, injustice at migrant centres
• Judges for Democracy, SOS Racismo, Women’s Link decry detention centres • Barcelona ready to file suit against Interior Ministry to close…
Caixa rewards innovative approaches to social problems
• Projects tackle gender violence, poverty, social exclusion, hate speech & more • Social Innovation awards carry 15K euros prize money for…
Barcelona to offer ID cards to undocumented migrants
• Identity card will enable migrants to forestall deportation until case is heard • Local document will facilitate inclusion in ‘padron’ census,…
UN to review Spain’s treatment of sex-trafficking victim
• Madrid-based NGO files complaint with UN over Nigerian woman’s deportation • Women’s Link Worldwide says Spain failing to protect victims of…
110 sub-Saharan migrants vault border wall at Melilla
• Second mass attempt to scale wire-mesh fence at Melilla in last two weeks • Increase in sub-Saharan migrants seeking entry to…
Red Cross sees hike in sub-Saharan Africa ‘boat people’
• Overcrowded boatloads from Morocco of largely sub-Saharan African migrants • More women and children in organized exodus run by human trafficking…
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…
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…
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…
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…
#VIDEO: Dani Rovira appeals for new refugee ship
• Popular actor & comedian asks public to donate to Proactiva Open Arms fund • Appeal to purchase new emergency rescue boat…
U.S. ‘Border Angels’ hopes to set up chapters in Spain
• Founder of California-based group spoke to migrant rights activists in Tenerife • ‘Border Angels’ hopes to help provide assistance in Spain…
Refugees trapped by U.S., EU limits on asylum, say NGOs
• Oxfam Intermón, CEAR say Spain not doing enough to help stranded refugees • Increased U.S., EU restrictions seen hitting Syrian refugees…
NGO calls on Spain to protect refugee children
• Save The Children makes appeal in wake of drowning of 6-year-old off Cadiz • In 2016, 1,500-plus refugee, migrant children drowned…
IU warns of EU changes on refugees, asylum seekers
• IU’s MEP Marina Albiol says Trump-style restrictions on refugees underway • Draft legislative amendments would change EU policies toward asylum seekers…
#VIDEO: MdM awards Luis Valtueña photo prize
• Médicos del Mundo awards Luis Valtueña prize to Russian Sergei Stroitelev • 270 photographers from 45 counties in 2017 humanitarian photo…
Spaniards showing more tolerance for immigrants
• High-level of rejection of immigrants during ‘boom’ years appears to be easing • 55 more Syrian, Iraqi refugees arrive to Spain,…
#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…
Spanish Volunteer Platform issues 2017 calendar
• 12 images by leading photographers present ’12 Views of Solidarity’ for 2017 • Umbrella organization represents 78 national, regional NGOs throughout…
Church NGOs, UNHCR decry state of migrant centres
• Catholic church, UN agencies condemn situation at North African centres • 6,400-plus migrants, asylum seekers passed through Ceuta and Melilla 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…