Tutti i temi: Spagna

14.03.2008 A wave energy pilot plant in Cantabria, Spain is undergoing tests. It will become the first of this kind to be installed in Europe.
From: Iberdola Renewables

14.03.2008 Viime vuoden virallisten tilastojen mukaan 921 ihmistä menetti henkensä yrittäessään päästä Espanjaan. Ihmisoikeusjärjestön mukaan todellinen luku on moninkertainen.

11.03.2008 Espanjasta tuli maaliskuussa 24. maa, joka on kieltänyt lasten ruumiillisen kurituksen kaikki muodot. YK on asettanut tavoitteeksi lasten ruumiillisen kurituksen universaalin kiellon vuoteen 2009 mennessä.

07.02.2008 A Spanish judge is currently hearing testimonies from Guatemalan survivors of genocide and other crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Guatemalan military against the Mayan population of this country during the 1980s.
From: Center for Justice & Accountability

07.01.2008 Espanjan kehitysrahoitus nousee vuonna 2008 0,5 prosenttiin BKT:sta, ja kansainvälisen yhteistyön vuosisuunnitelmassa linjataan 0,7 prosentin taso vuoteen 2012 mennessä. Suunnitelman painopisteitä ovat köyhyyden vähentäminen, koherenssi sekä kehitysyhteistyön laatu ja tehokkuus.

03.12.2007 Espanja on hyväksymässä asevalvonnan säätelyä ja valvontaa tiukentavan lain. Espanja on merkittävä aseviejä, joka käy ase- ja ammuskauppaa esimerkiksi Kolumbian, Marokon ja Saharan eteläpuolisen Afrikan maiden kanssa.

31.10.2007 Spain's new electronic ID cards will reach 30 million citizens soon. The Interior Ministry has already distributed 1.2 million chip-based cards and expects to issue at least 800,000 more by the end of the year.

29.10.2007 Spain and France have sent diplomats to Chad where 16 of their nationals are still under arrest accused of child trafficking after being caught on Thursday trying to fly 103 young children out of the country to France.
From: EuroNews

29.09.2007 Anna is a self-confident nine-year-old Parisian girl whose comfortable life is turned upside down in 1970 when her parents get politics – Chilean, pro-Allende politics.

01.06.2007 The UN refugee agency has protested to the European Commission about the way boatloads of people from North Africa have recently been left stranded at sea, despite being in distress and at risk of death.

06.05.2007 International donors, particularly Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain and Australia, have been accused of an inadequate or non-existent response to the UN humanitarian appeal for Chad.

12.02.2007 from The Sietch Blog:
Spanish orange juice producers have found a way to make ethanol from orange wastes.

22.12.2006 The Spanish government has made the largest contribution by any country to the UN to help meet the Millennium Development goals by 2015.

22.12.2006 The Spanish government has donated $700 million to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

27.07.2006 PARIS, Jul 27 (IPS) - The extreme hot summer in Europe is restricting nuclear energy generation and showing up the limits of nuclear power, leading environmental activists and scientists say.

14.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 13 (OneWorld) - A judge in Spain has issued arrest warrants for eight former Guatemalan officials, including a former president, Efrain Rios Montt for crimes committed during what is known by many as the Guatemalan Genocide.

04.07.2006 Tourists and backpackers are being urged to bypass the Pamplona Bull Run, a ten-day event starting on 6 July, where bulls are subjected to cruelty and suffering in the name of human entertainment.

28.06.2006 The Spanish government announced in a statement on Monday that it will donate 935 million euros (about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars) for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in 2006, 78 percent higher more than that in 2004.

01.06.2006 Spain's eight nuclear plants will be phased out in favour of clean, renewable energy, the President announced, despite industry lobbying for new plants and for legislation to allow existing plants to operate past their planned retirement dates.

08.05.2006 The London exhibition of Juan Medina's photographs documenting the arrival of African migrants on the island of Fuerteventura since 1999 - a phenomenon he describes as "one of the most horrific, cruel and important immigration movements of our time" - has been extended until 29 May.
It's a double-bill, sharing gallery space with atmospheric urban American crime scene photographs by Arthur Fellig ("Weegee").