Newsletter No. 114

A Girona-based NGO launches a maternity ward that will provide care to around 7,000 women in Senegal

The Associació de Cooperació pel Desenvolupament de Bantandicori, based in Arbúcies, has already laid the first stone of a maternity ward in Saré Maoundé, in the Senegalese region of Kolda.

A report maps the use of artificial intelligence and other technologies in migration control

The report ‘Smart Borders, Negligent Democracies’, by Fundación porCausa and the Centre Delàs, warns that the digitalisation of border control in Europe is consolidating an opaque, privatised and weakly democratic system.

Diana Damián: "I strongly believe that networks save lives"

We spoke with Diana Damián, Director of Training and Capacity Building at FOCA, about the current situation of migrant women at the Mexico–Guatemala border and the growing violence they face along migration routes.

Carolina Gutiérrez: "Leaving home is almost always the result of direct threats"

Carolina Gutiérrez Palacios, member of the Network of Women Human Rights Defenders and the Mesoamerican Network for Women, Health and Migration, has been supporting migrant women in Guatemala for more than twenty years. 

Pablo Aguiar: “For years, major global challenges have been overwhelming the capacity of nation-states”

We review the challenges of an increasingly militarised and polarised world with the new director of FundiPau, who took office in September last year.

Barcelona Hosts the 4th International Youth Act! Forum on Youth and Climate Justice

From February 2 to 6, Barcelona will become a meeting point for young activists from Catalonia, Colombia, Palestine, and Western Sahara during the fourth edition of the International Youth Act! Forum.

Towards a european volunteering policy

The article highlights volunteering as a driver of active citizenship, democracy, and human rights in Europe. It calls for harmonizing national regulations to advance a common European volunteering policy.

Visitors to the forest: when enjoying, you must be responsible

Reflections and proposals for a respectful approach to the natural environment.

New technologies: opportunity or threat for the rights of older people?

For many older people, digitalization does not simplify daily procedures, but rather adds new obstacles, generating anxiety and worry.