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The acting Ombudsman, Francisco Fernández Marugán, has handed over the Office’s 2018 Annual Report to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, on behalf of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (the NPM). In 2018, the NPM inspected 111 prisons throughout 31 provinces in 17 regions, […]

The acting Ombudsman of Spain, Francisco Fernandez Marugán, has warned that public housing is at historic lows and “is in danger of disappearing completely” if there is not “a rapid and intense change” in public policies in this area. This has been assured during his participation in the Congress “Building the right to housing”, held […]

On International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March, the acting Ombudsman of Spain, Francisco Fernández Marugán, called for a State Pact for Equality and ensured that “a society that does not reconcile is a society with no future”. Fernandez Marugán notes that 12 years after the passage of the Organic Law 3/2007 for effective equality […]

After being notified about the violent death of four wild mares in the Galician town of Oia (Pontevedra), Francisco Fernández Marugán, acting Ombudsman of Spain, has begun an intervention against the regional government of Galicia (Consejería de Presidencia de la Xunta de Galicia). In particular, the Institution has demanded the Xunta to inform about the […]