Spain

A Foregone Foreclosure

Published in Thursday July 19th, 2012 In In the media

July 18, 2012 by Jonathan Blitzer By 7:30 a.m., two hours before the authorities are due to arrive to enforce the foreclosure, some 15 people are already assembled to stop it. A family of five mingles with friends and local activists in front of No. 20 Calle de Dolores Armengot, in the working-class neighborhood of […]

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Spanish banks keep evicting

Published in Thursday June 14th, 2012 In In the media

June 14, 2012 Spaniards every day protest against eviction from homes – homes bought on credit – credit under terms their banks convinced them were within their means. Most of the hundreds of thousands of evictions in the past several years have been families with children. These people shout: “We’re not scared!” And, holding up their […]

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Crisis draws squatter to Spain’s empty buildings

Published in Monday May 28th, 2012 In In the media

May 28, 2012 Sleeping on inflatable mattresses with just a few boxes to hold their belongings, 32 families have occupied an empty new apartment block in Seville in southern Spain to put a roof over their heads after being thrown out of their own homes. They share a single cooker and a cheap brown sofa […]

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Taking Spain’s austerity measures to task at the United Nations

Published in Friday May 11th, 2012 In Social movement news

May 11, 2012 On the occasion of the Spain’s first appearance in eight years before the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, CESR together with a coalition of 18 Spanish NGOs has presented a parallel report comprising detailed evidence of retrogressions in human rights due to austerity measures. This document was complemented by […]

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Facing eviction, Abuela chains herself to bank (Spain)

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In News

May 5, 2012 A 76-year-old grandmother who lost her home to debt chained herself to the gate of Spain’s central bank here Monday and asked Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to address the “injustices” affecting many people in the Iberian nation. Angeles Belmonte was evicted five months ago from her home in the southern town of […]

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Spanish homeowners rally together to fight evictions by banks

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

May 2nd, 2012 Residents in a quiet suburb of Barcelona are taking the fight against the financial sector to the judiciary as they attempt to save a family from being evicted from their home, in a case that has become a powerful symbol of Spain’s five-year economic crisis. At 9.30am in the district of Santa […]

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A Spanish Drama: Homeless in Debt and in the Street

Published in Thursday April 26th, 2012 In In the media

April 25th, 2012 by Eduardo Rodríguez-Baz After unemployment, and closely linked to it, evictions have become the most horrific aspect of the economic crisis in Spain, accelerating the rise in levels of poverty and social exclusion. The evictions of both house-owners and tenants in debt reached a historic level last year, with an increase of […]

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Spain: Lives mortgaged by the crisis

Published in Thursday April 19th, 2012 In In the media

April 19th, 2012 After unemployment, and closely associated to it, housing evictions have become the most frightening face of the economic crisis in Spain, shooting up rates of poverty and social exclusion. The evictions of owners or tenants in debt last year recorded a record high, up nearly 22 percent over 2010, reaching 58 000 […]

Eviction numbers reach new high in Spain

Published in Monday April 2nd, 2012 In In the media

March 31st, 2012 The number of people being evicted from their homes in Spain has jumped to a new record, with the judges granting embargos against 58,200 families last year, 22% more than in 2010. The numbers have put the matter at the centre of the political debate, and the Government has brought out ‘a […]

International Amnesty’s report on ESCR in Spain

Published in Friday March 23rd, 2012

The International Amnesty (IA) analyzes, in this report, the legal support of the economic, social and cultural rights in Spain, as well as the obstacles to enforce them in the Judiciary. It also examines the lack of recognition of these rights as human rights in different scopes, from the legislation to the authorities’ decisions; and […]