Top three Defence Ministry posts now held by women
For the first time in the history of Spain, the country’s Ministry of Defense will be led entirely headed by women, after…
Women’s Rights
PP, VOX refuse to support gender-violence measures
Spain’s Congress ratified emergency legislation on Wednesday over the protests of the conservative Partido Popular and ultra-right VOX parties that provides special…
COVID-19 hits female health-workers twice as hard
Studies being released by a UN agency and professional and university researchers in Spain are pointing to a clear gender-gap among healthcare…
TOP HEADLINES: Coronavirus crisis in Spain …
Summary of some of the top headlines in national news media this morning, with links to the original sources in Spanish ……
Hotels to shelter gender violence, sex trafficking victims
The government’s cabinet-level Consejo de Ministros will approve today a legislative decree to increase protection during the coronavirus crisis for women and…
Judge probes gov’t for allowing 8M Women’s Day march
? 1st V-P Carmen Calvo is hospitalized, tests positive for coronavirus ? A conservative judge in Madrid has opened an investigation into…
COVID-19: Gov’t seeks to aid domestic abuse victims
National and regional government authorities are taking measures to minimize the danger of increased domestic violence directed at women during the government-decreed…
Hazte Oír loses appeal over loss of tax-exempt status
A panel of judges from Spain’s Audiencia Nacional penal court has confirmed the Spanish government’s revocation last year of tax-exempt status from…
Court injunction suspends Murcia’s parental veto plan
A three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Justice of Murcia (TSJM) has ruled in a 2-1 vote to temporarily suspend the…
Spain’s youth say ethnic, gender discrimination prevail
Results of an annual survey among Spanish youth show that seven out of 10 young people in Spain say they’ve been victims…
Hundreds of thousands demand equality, end to violence
Some 300,000 supporters of women’s rights turned out Sunday to march in cities and towns across Spain on the occasion of International…
United Left (IU) ejects Feminist Party over trans dispute
Spain’s Izquierda Unida party, the junior political partner of the left-wing, anti-austerity Unidas Podemos coalition, has voted to expel from its ranks…
Spanish Catholic women push for equality within church
Dozens of Catholic women’s groups have organized to hold rallies on Sunday March 1st in front of Spain’s principal Catholic cathedrals to…
Sexual assault law ready for Congress by Women’s Day
A dispute between the Socialist party (PSOE) and its junior governing coalition partner Unidas Podemos over how best to advance legislation to…
Gov’t files lawsuit over ‘parental veto’ in Murcia schools
Spain’s new coalition government has filed a lawsuit against the regional government of Murcia over its failure to meet a 30-day deadline…
NGOs combat FGM among African migrant communities
The government of President Pedro Sánchez has added its voice to non-governmental organizations working to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation…
Most gender-violence victims do not report attackers
A troubling phenomenon in the fight against gender violence and efforts to protect women from their agressors was brought into sharp focus…
Protests as Murcia gov’t persists with parental veto plan
Hundreds of feminist, LGBT+ and union activists turned out to protest the Murcian regional government’s decision to push ahead with its policy…
Andalucian Socialist first female Guardia Civil director
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has named an Andalucian Socialist and longtime government administrator, María Gámez, to become the first woman ever to…
Gov’t vows court challenge to VOX ‘parental PIN’ plan
Spain’s government has vowed to challenge the regional government of Murcia in court if it proceeds with a plan that allows parents…
Gender equality prioritized to ministry level in new gov’t
Equality among the sexes will assume top-line ministerial priority in the formation of the new progressive coalition government between the Socialist party…
Iglesias to coordinate ‘Agenda 2030’ for coalition gov’t
In one of the final interventions of the congressional debate Tuesday that saw Socialist party general secretary Pedro Sánchez re-elected to a…
#VIDEO 300 feminists shout down ‘machista’ heckler
Some 300 women who gathered Monday in Santiago de Compostela’s Praza do Obradoiro to perform the global feminist anthem against gender violence…
Censure of Saudi ‘Supercopa’ location over rights issues
The LGBT+ fan club of the Valencia CF football team has added its name to a growing list of organizations condemning the…
Gender-violence judge to preside over Spain’s Senate
The Socialist party (PSOE) majority in the Spanish Senate is set to name a career judge specializing in gender-violence crimes to preside…
Tens of thousands march to protest gender violence
Tens of thousands marched across Spain on Monday to protest violence against women in Spanish society and take special aim at those…
#VIDEO Activist rebukes VOX leader on gender violence
In past years on the occasion of the UN-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Madrid’s 57-member municipal council…
#VIDEO: Femen activists disrupt Franco anniversary
Activists of the feminist direct-action group FEMEN interrupted for the second consecutive year an annual march and rally on the anniversary of…
Study shows climate change hits women & girls hardest
Climate change is multiplying the inequality and discrimination faced by women and girls in the developing world, according to a new study…
Two ‘La Manada’ gang rapists given additional jail time
A regional criminal court in the regional community of Navarra has sentenced two of the five members of the La Manada group…
Unions warn of gender-violence denial by right-wing
Spain’s leading labour union federations have called for vigilance against what they say is a campaign of gender-violence denial that threatens the…