Full Coverage: Spain
04/15/2008
Two companies are starting a new project to use carbon dioxide emissions from cement manufacture to make biodiesel... with a little help from some microorganisms.
Read moreFrom: AutoblogGreen Related: [Energy] [Transport] [Climate Change] [Pollution] [Renewable Energy] Image: Carbon dioxide becomes food for algae © Geographical
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04/11/2008
Lakkoon ryhtyvät siirtolaistyöläiset vaativat tiukkojen ulkomaalaislakien kumoamista, paperittomien siirtolaisten virallistamista sekä siirtolaisia riistävien työnantajien rankaisemista.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld España Related: [Labor] [Migration] Image: - © Fundación Chandra
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03/14/2008
Viime vuoden virallisten tilastojen mukaan 921 ihmistä menetti henkensä yrittäessään päästä Espanjaan. Ihmisoikeusjärjestön mukaan todellinen luku on moninkertainen.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld España Related: [Migration] [Human Rights] |
03/11/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: Plan Suomi Säätiö Related: [Children] [Human Rights] |
02/07/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: Center for Justice & Accountability Related: [Guatemala] |
01/07/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld España Related: [International Cooperation] Image: © Center for Global Development
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12/03/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: maailma.net Related: [Arms & Military] |
10/31/2007
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.
Read moreRelated: [Western Europe] [ICT] [Knowledge] [Governance] |
09/30/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld UK Related: [United Kingdom] [Chile] [Media] |
06/01/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Related: [Eritrea] [Italy] [Libya ] [Malta] |
05/07/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: Oxfam Great Britain Related: [Australia] [Chad] [France] [Germany] [Italy] [Japan] |
02/12/2007
from The Sietch Blog:
Read moreImage: Squashed oranges ripe for energy production
Related: [Agriculture] [Renewable Energy] |
12/22/2006
The Spanish government has made the largest contribution by any country to the UN to help meet the Millennium Development goals by 2015.
Read moreFrom: Environment News Service (ENS) |
12/22/2006
The Spanish government has donated $700 million to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Read moreFrom: Environment News Service (ENS) |
07/27/2006
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.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Germany] [France] Image: Nuclear reactor control room in Beijing, China. © SciDev.Net
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07/14/2006
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.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Guatemala] [Indigenous Rights] [Justice and Crime] [Law] [Arms & Military] [Terrorism] |
07/05/2006
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.
Read moreFrom: World Society for the Protection of Animals |
06/28/2006
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.
Read moreRelated: [International Cooperation] [ICT] |
06/01/2006
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.
Read moreFrom: Greenpeace International |



