Description
The crisis in Spain and the consequent austerity and privatization of public services policies, are generating dramatic consequences: extreme precariousness and inequalities. This situation is increasing the participation of the Spanish people to criticize these policies. The Spanish Authorities are responding to this situation with the repression and criminalization of these innovative voices.The project expects to: Increase the capacities of 300HRDs (journalists, legal experts and activists) to participate in the Early Warning and Response's system before HR violations, Creation of an Early analysis and response's system on HRs violations, Creation of Early Response's system before HR violations, Promoted a favorable environment for the HRDs action, the participative design of a public policy that ensures the Human Security and the development of concrete mechanisms to protect the HR in Spain.The multi-disciplinary coalition is composed by Training: APDHA, Ecologist in Action; Media: NOVA; Research: University Autonoma of Madrid Foundation, FSUB, ICARIA-Editorial.Advocacy; NOVA, APDHA and Ecologist in Action.
Summary of project results
The project (
www.defenderaquiendefiende.org) has led the creation of a coalition of communicators, lawyers, academic experts and activists have joined forces to defend civil and political rights under the threat of new Law on Public Safety and Penal Code Reform. 400 citizens have been trained to identify and document human rights violations in the context of social protest. This network of observers has been articulated in a National Observatory to analyze social control and repression in the Spanish State, as a result published the first collaborative report on the jaws laws in the Spanish State. Cases identified in the Observatory and described in the report have made it possible to present the first two lawsuits against the Public Safety Act before the European Court in Strasbourg threatening the exercise of freedom of speech and press. This is the beginning of a state and citizen Network defense of human rights in the Spanish State.
Summary of bilateral results