Human rights

Laila Ajjawi, artist and advocate for the rights of migrants and refugees.

As part of the ‘Cities Defending Human Rights’ program, artist and activist Laila Ajjawi visits Barcelona to share the story of her art, her community, and to emphasize her identity as a Palestinian refugee.

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The Clean Clothes Campaign has organized a tribute to the victims of the Rana Plaza tragedy.

The initiative has made this demand coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, in which over a thousand textile workers died.

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The Afghan authorities have imposed a ban on female aid workers from carrying out their work in Afghanistan. Source: Unsplash (CC License).

The prohibition imposed by the Taliban regime has been extended to female personnel of the United Nations, who have opened the door to suspending their task in the country if the ban persists.

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Caminando Fronteras numbers more than 2,300 victims who attempted to enter Spain in 2022.

The organisation highlights the lethal consequences of the necropolitical boundary in a report entitled 'Monitoring the Right to Life - 2022’.

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The primary objective is the protection of children.

In December, the European Union announced an initiative to recognize paternity uniformly in all member states.

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Sara Márquez, with part of the ASF team and community where they work in Mozambique.

Arquitectura Sense Fronteres celebrates thirty years of work in the defence of human rights through access to housing.

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From a global perspective, the current situation of human rights doesn’t look very promising; however, there is room for action, there is still time.

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The main objective of the centre is to ensure that the internationalisation of the Catalan economy does not cause environmental and social impacts.

Different entities from Lafede.cat and Taula per Colòmbia work to make the Catalan Centre for Business and Human Rights come true, an administrative agency for fighting against the negative impacts caused by the internationalization of the Catalan economy.

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The World Cup in Qatar, organized by FIFA, is the latest example of sportswasing.

The World Cup in Qatar is the latest example, and one of the most flagrant, of sportswashing, a practice that has increased in recent years, but which is as old as the sport itself.

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One of the actions of the campaign Stop the Wars in Lleida.

The 'Stop the wars' campaign organizes demonstrations in front of government offices to say no to war escalation and militarism, while proposing alternatives such as non-violent struggle.

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The citizens' initiative needs more than 3,700 signatures to move forward.

The campaign promoted by the Coalició Prou ​​Complicitat amb Israel and LaFede.cat seeks public support for the municipal council to debate the breaking of the twinning agreement between Barcelona and Tel-Aviv.

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Evelyn Romero.

Evelyn Romero participates and works from a young age in the Salvadoran department of Morazán with the Red Ciudadana de Mujeres de Morazán (RCMM), in the promotion and defense of women's rights and human rights.

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