El pasado jueves tuvo lugar una reunión con el Diputado del Común de Canarias, D. Rafael Yanes Mesa, para solicitar su apoyo a una campaña internacional en contra de la persecución económica de los bahá’ís de Irán. Si durante el pasado año la persecución se centraba en los encarcelamientos, las autoridades iraníes recurren ahora a la estrategia...

The increasing number of children on the move within complex mixed migration flows has placed age determination procedures at the core of migration management.These children are often unaccompanied or separated from their primary caregivers. With limited access to birth registration in their countries of origin, they are rarely able to produce evidence of their age. In fact, UNICEF highlights that, in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, over 64% of births continue to go unregistered. Efforts to effectively manage migration should not overlook the limited availability of birth registration in countries of origin, nor should individuals’ lack of documentation be perceived as a deliberate attempt to...

“This year, we mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in unusual circumstances. While we are confronted with one of the biggest crises of our century, we must not let our attention waver and allow the memory of Holocaust victims to be misused or insulted”, said today the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights...

The construction project, in the municipality of Curtis in Galicia (Spain), of a biomass power generation plant, known as the Curtis project, was among the successful projects in a tender procedure for renewable energy projects organised by Spain in 2016. The promoter of the Curtis project contacted the services of the European Investment Bank (EIB) to engage in discussions about the possibility of...

Petitionen/Ausschuss Der Petitionsausschuss unterstützt eine Petition mit der Forderung nach Ausweitung der Verpflichtungen öffentlicher Arbeitgeber zur Beschäftigung schwerbehinderter Menschen.