• 07 March 2016

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    Category : Reportage

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    The Spanish Ombudsman’s Office, a model for Turkey

    Spain has had an Ombudsman's Office for over 30 years and, thanks a Twinning project financed by the European Commission and managed by FIIAPP, the institution is currently sharing its know-how with the Turkish people.

    Spain has had an Ombudsman's Office for over 30 years and, thanks a Twinning project financed by the European Commission and managed by FIIAPP, the institution is currently sharing its know-how with the Turkish people.

    Nearly 80 million people live in Turkey and up to just over two years ago, the Turkish population did not have a place to go where they felt protected and could file complaints or be represented in cases of basic human rights violations. Things have changed, because citizens have...

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  • 07 March 2016

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    Category : Interview

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    “The Spanish organ donation and transplant system has been shown to be the best in the world”

    We interview Jaume Tort. The Director of the Catalan Transplant Organisation (OCATT) is working with the French Biomedicine Agency on two projects, both managed by FIIAPP and funded by the European Union, aimed at strengthening the donation and transplant system in Croatia and Moldova.

    According to the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, Spain has been the world leader in organ and tissue transplants for 24 years. In 2015, there were 13 transplants per day ...

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  • 18 January 2016

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    Category : Opinion

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    Access to justice for foreign women deprived of their liberty in Peru

    EUROsociAL, the cooperation programme of the European Union, has contributed to the creation of a defence protocol to allow foreign women in different prisons in Peru to efficiently access justice and receive better assistance.

    In Peru's prison population, there are two groups especially vulnerable to overcrowding and living conditions in prison: on the one hand, young people, 11% of the total; and on the other, foreign women, 90% of whom are serving sentences for ...

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  • 30 October 2015

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    Category : Opinion

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    The engine room of the EUROsociAL annual conference

    Every EUROsociAL annual conference has had its engine room. In Lima, it was Room 212; in Brussels, the office of the FIIAPP “antenna”; in Antigua, we lost ourselves in the corridors and cloisters of the Training Centre; and lastly, in Madrid, it was the Octavio Paz room.

    Sala de máquinas del encuentro

    Each place has its share of anecdotes. In Lima we would gather after dinner until the wee hours in an atmosphere that resembled a newsroom more than a hotel room. There, the phone stopped ringing at two in the morning... but at five it was ringing again. Your humble...

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