Spain
Published on Thu, 2014-04-10 22:15
Is European Union really committed to Human Development? EU has made an undeniable progress in promoting the integration of policy coherence for development (PCD) at the discursive level, nevertheless European policies developed in the last five years have not only had profoundly negative consequences for other countries and people, but have made living conditions significantly precarious for large part of the population living in Europe. There appears to be a more than significant gap between the policy commitments undertaken by the European institutions and Member States, and the real actions to promote greater PCD at both EU and national levels. |
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El Anuario de la Plataforma 2015 y más ofrece una reflexión sobre la agenda global de desarrollo en un momento de debilitamiento generalizado de las políticas públicas que, en el Norte y en el Sur, amenazan el bienestar global. En su edición de 2011, la Plataforma 2015 y más pretende ofrecer argumentos para la construcción de una agenda de desarrollo —en el marco de la agenda post 2015— basada en la idea de la interrelación y el fortalecimiento de las políticas públicas como ejes para la gobernanza global, entendida esta como la extensión de los derechos humanos y el bienestar al conjunto de los habitantes del planeta. Para ello el Anuario recoge una serie de artículos que se estructuran en tres apartados que desde diferentes perspectivas abordan la construcción de esta agenda.
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Published on Wed, 2012-05-16 09:26
The danger of policy measures designed to socialize the costs of the crisis have become painfully apparent in Spain, where the impacts of successive austerity budgets have resulted in deteriorating outcomes across a broad spectrum of human rights indicators, warned the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) in a parallel report coordinated with 18 civil society groups for the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ 48th session, held earlier this month in Geneva. |
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When the present Government came to power it announced it would support sustainable development, but it has not made good on these commitments. In fields like gender and energy policies and overseas development assistance Spanish civil society organizations have heard a lot of promises but the actual concrete results have been meagre. Today, as a consequence, there are no solid policies to promote gender equality or to work towards a sustainable development model that involves reducing greenhouse gas emissions or promoting the development of renewable sources of energy.
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Published on Mon, 2011-09-05 08:12
Source: Plataforma 2015 y Más The main union federations in Spain and many civil society organizations including Plataforma 2015 y Más (a member of Social Watch) established last week a programme of demonstrations to express their rejection of the change to the Constitution the governing Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and the opposition Popular Party (PP) are contemplating. The change would set a limit to the public deficit, and the people’s organizations are calling for a public referendum to decide this matter. |
Published on Fri, 2011-07-08 09:07
Sources (in Spanish): SOS Racismo, El Comercio, Ecuador, EFE, at Mugak, Cadena SER. Racism and xenophobia have intensified in Spain under the influence of political forces and traditional parties that have assumed postulates until now restricted to the extreme right, warned the federation of non-governmental organizations SOS Racismo in its latest annual report. In recent months, “a time bomb” has been created, while “the political class fails as a whole; ones for playing the racist game and others for not condemning it enough”, said Alba Cuevas, the spokeswoman for the network in Cataluña. |
Published on Wed, 2011-05-18 13:14
Source: Plataforma 2015 y Más Plataforma 2015 y Más [Platform 2015 and Beyond], one of the focal points of Social Watch in Spain, urged citizens to exert their right to vote with responsibility in the upcoming autonomic and municipal elections on Sunday 22. Thus, citizens were urged to vote for the options that include the defence of public policies in their programmes so as to ensure the State’s commitment to the eradication of poverty and inequalities. |
