Progressive Spain’s Top Ten Video Posts for 2016
Following are 2016’s ‘Top Ten Videos’ posted at Progressive Spain … for your viewing pleasure over the year-end holidays … See you…
Refugees & Migration
More Spaniards leaving legacy gifts to NGOs
• Number of those leaving funds to NGOs, charities triples over past decade •’Legado Solidario’ sees boom in legacy gifts to social-justice…
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…
Migrants storm Ceuta fence seeking asylum
• Nearly 450 successfully scaled 6-metre, barbed wire fence to request asylum • N. Africa migrant detention centre meant to hold 512,…
Spain’s NGO volunteers get #AplausoGlobal today
• Non-governmental groups encourage ‘solidarity’ as response to world’s woes • Volunteering is way to give ‘most valuable resource, your time’ to help others Volunteer workers…
Amnesty decries migrant treatment at Ceuta, Melilla
• New report condemns Spain’s treatment of migrants at N. African centres • Summary explusions, police abuse, overcrowding violate international accords Amnistía…
#VIDEO: Children’s NGO rooted in Spanish Civil War
• Plan Internacional history began in 1937 during Spain’s bloody civil war • NGO fights child poverty, focus on root causes of…
#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…
Caixa Forum Madrid opens ‘Somos Migrantes’ show
• ‘We are Migrants’ photo exhibit runs through Jan 8th at Caixa Forum Madrid • Works by 14 photographers shows plight of…
UN agency wants Spain to get serious on refugees
• UNHCR says time for Spain to move from words to action on refugee crisis • Spain has resettled just 687 of…
NGOFILE :: Médicos del Mundo
• Médicos del Mundo ~ Doctors of the World Médicos del Mundo is the Spanish affiliate of Médecins du Monde (MdM), an…
Barcelona seeks migrant detention centre closure
• City official cites ‘infrahuman’ conditions for immigrants, asylum seekers • Interior Ministry given 20 days to transfer detainees or face legal…
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…
Groups protest move to privatize migrant centres
• Activists protest Ciudadanos party’s move to privatize migrant centres • Spain’s CIE internment centres in violation of human rights, refugee norms…
EC gives Spain 60 days to fix asylum procedures
• EC gives Spain 60 days to correct irregularities in processing asylum seekers • Spain could be hauled before European Court of…
Spain accepts more refugees from Syria and Iraq
• Spain has resettled just 643 asylum seekers of 160,000 pledged in EU accord • EU countries have taken 5,651 refugees in…
#VIDEO: Trafficking, sex slavery problem in Spain
• Médicos del Mundo say 14,000 women victims of sex traffickers in Spain • Madrid’s Universidad Pontificia says 30-40,000 at risk of…
NGOs contest Felipe VI’s remarks at UN on refugees
• Spain not ‘doing everything in its power’ to help refugees, say leading NGOs • Groups cite rights of asylum, failure to…
NGO denounces persistence of racism across Spain
• SOS Racismo detected 247 racist incidents in 2015, including 96 ‘hate crimes’ • Sub-Saharan migrants most prone to suffer racist aggression,…
#VIDEO: UN warns Spain over Ceuta migrant policies
• Asylum seekers returned to Morocco before being properly ID’d, processed • UHNCR says mass rejection of asylum seekers violates international accords…
Spain celebrates global humanitarian aid workers
• Since 2006, Spain’s ‘Dia del Cooperante’ celebrates overseas aid workers • Despite cuts, Spanish NGOs still provide humanitarian aid in 110…
NGOFILE :: CONGDE ~ Coordinating Council of Development NGOs of Spain
• Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo de España (CONGDE) ~ Coordinating Council of Development NGOs of Spain • The Coordinadora de…
Activists say healthcare restrictions violate treaties
• REDER network cites 338 incidents of healthcare denial from April-July • Group monitors healthcare denial to migrants, chronically ill, unemployed An…
Telefonica launches ‘OpenSpain’ to assist refugees
• OpenSpain project provides online assistance to refugees arriving to Spain • Web portal provides information on work, housing, transport & legal…
NGOFILE :: ACCEM ~ Spanish Catholic Committee on Immigration
• Asociación Comisión Católica Española de Migraciones (ACCEM) ~ Spanish Catholic Committee on Immigration • The Asociación Comisión Católica Española de Migraciones…
NGOFILE :: Oxfam Intermón
• Oxfam Intermón • Oxfam Intermón is the affiliate in Spain of the international development aid organisation Oxfam. Originally founded in 1956…
NGOFILE :: Plan Internacional España
• Plan Internacional España ~ Plan International Plan Internacional España is the Spanish affiliate of Plan International (also known simply as “Plan”),…
Government says ‘logistics’ slowing refugees’ arrival
• Of 586 refugees slated for arrival by end-June, just 303 have been resettled • Refugees provided housing, legal aid, counseling, Spanish…
NGOFILE :: CEAR ~ Spanish Committee for Refugee Aid
• Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado (CEAR) ~ Spanish Committee for Refugee Aid • The Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado…
Oxfam begins anti-poverty program within Spain
• Oxfam Intermón to fund local NGOs working with migrants, women & children • Prevention of gender violence, counseling for domestic abuse…
First Syrian refugees arrive to Spain from Turkey
• 65 Syrian refugees, one Iraqi arrived to Madrid from Turkish, Greek camps • Spain has now resettled 200 refugees, part of…