Full Coverage: Spain

18.11.2009 Aminatou Haidar, winner of two US human rights awards, is on hunger strike in support of her demand that the Spanish and Moroccan authorities allow her back to Western Sahara.

15.11.2009 Wind farms produce more than half of the electricity in Spain. Why can't we do it here the UK where there is much more wind? IPS News

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

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").

27.04.2006 from Carmelo Ruiz's bilingual blog:
"It is not enough to think of technological solution or substitute one source of energy for another, but instead we need to think of new sustainable decentralized and just societies," concludes Carmelo Ruiz (scroll down the page for this article).

19.04.2006 After a chase of over 1,000 miles, a six-day occupation and hours of diplomatic negotiations, Spain has finally agreed to declare the cargo from the "Binar 4'" - 200 tonnes of fish from West Africa - illegal. Guinean officials also announced they would be fining the owners and operators of the vessel.

13.04.2006 Activists have climbed on board what they claim is "an illegal cargo vessel full of fish stolen from Guinean waters" and painted the words "Stolen Fish" on both sides of its hull.