World leaders have an opportunity at the United Nations this year to declare that the application of law should be free of the taint of political interest.
Posts Tagged “Spain”
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has saved and prolonged millions of lives. Yet at this precise moment when the global community should be doing all it can to support the Fund, it is under the most serious assault it has endured in its ten-year history.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: Barack Obama, Belgium, economic crisis, Eric Goosby, Germany, Global Fund, HIV/AIDS, Ireland, Italy, Jeffrey Sachs, malaria, Netherlands, PEPFAR, public health, Spain, Stephen Lewis, tuberculosis, United States, World Economic Forum
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A new report exposes the prevalence of racial profiling in Spain, painting a powerful portrait of the indignities suffered by those who do not “look Spanish” and of the official policies that encourage rather than curtail ethnic profiling.
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A move by the U.S. to seize around $70m of assets held by the son of the ruler of Equatorial Guinea suggests Washington will no longer provide a safe haven for the corrupt proceeds of kleptocracy.
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The UN has put the Spanish government on notice: Police who engage in ethnic profiling are violating the human right to nondiscrimination.
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In the last several months, the UNESCO-Obiang Prize in Life Sciences has generated more controversy than the organization has seen in decades. Facing a global outcry, the president of Equatorial Guinea has tried to fire back with some good old-fashioned do-gooding.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: anticorruption, Equatorial Guinea, obiang, Spain, unesco
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Despite proof that police are singling out people who “look like” immigrants for identity checks in Spain, government officials continue to deny that such practices even exist.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: ethnic profiling, immigration, Indira Goris, racism, Rosalind Williams, Spain
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Rosalind Williams, who spoke recently at the Open Society Institute on her successful racial profiling case against Spain, was stopped by police again on her way back home from the United States.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: ethnic profiling, Rachel Aicher, racism, Rosalind Williams, Spain
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In almost every country where the Mental Health Initiative works, public officials often ask me for the latest developments in diagnosing people with mental disabilities. To be honest, I don’t know why assigning labels to people is such a universal concern.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: deinstitutionalization, Judith Klein, mental disabilities, Spain
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