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The Defensora del Pueblo, Soledad Becerril, detailed before the Spanish Parliament of the effort the Institution had made in 2015 to increase its effectiveness and enhance transparency and communication with the general public via its new web page. Soledad Becerril, who presented the 2015 Annual Report to the Mixed Committee for Relations with the Office […]

In the space of just three months of 2016, 13 women at least have been murdered by their partners, a figure that could rise to 15 if two cases that are still under investigation are confirmed. These figures —as of March 31st— from the Government Office for Gender Violence represent a 62.5 percent increase over […]

The relevance of school facilities in the quality of an education system is obvious. No one doubts that a technical school or a faculty with a good laboratory equipped with adequate means and a library made up of the latest scientific publications facilitates the better  education of the students. However, the relationship between educational facilities […]

The Defensor del Pueblo, Soledad Becerril, considers the humiliations inflicted on a Group of Romany women that were begging in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid to be “prosecutable under our legal system because they constitute an insidious manifestation of intolerance and discrimination based on race or social or national origin.” The Defensor considers the behaviour […]