Pau Pérez stresses before the UN that the permanent suffering caused to families by enforced disappearance is torture
El director clínico del Centro Sir[a] presentó ante el Grupo de Trabajo sobre Desapariciones Forzadas o Involuntarias de Naciones Unidas el número especial de la revista Torture Journal, centrado en la consideración de la desaparición forzada como tortura Junto a Helena Solà Martín, asesora principal de política legal de la Organización Mundial Contra la Tortura […]
Gabriela Lopez and Mahamadou Simakha on the keys to cross-cultural accompaniment
The coordinator and the community facilitator of the Sir[a] Centre give a webinar organised by Médecins du Monde The coordinator of the Sira Centre, Gabriela López, and the community facilitator of the organisation, Mahamadou Simakha, participated as teachers in the training webinar «Psychosocial aspects in mediation and interpretation», organised by Médecins du Monde. Under the title «Health [...]
Spain continues to fail to comply with the principles of the Convention Against Torture
On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a group of civil society organisations present a report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture, which compiles various violations committed by the State as a signatory of the Convention On 20 and 21 July, at the headquarters of the UN Committee Against Torture, a group of civil society organisations [...]
Andrea Galán at the rally against impunity, organised by the victims of Francoism.
On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, in front of the building that was used as a detention and torture centre during the dictatorship, and which today houses the headquarters of the government of the Community of Madrid, various entities gathered to demand an end to impunity Andrea Galán, psychologist and [...]
Gabriela López presents in the European Parliament a report on violations at the Southern Border
Together with Iridia and Novact, the coordinator of the Sira Centre presents in the European Parliament the psychosocial impacts suffered by people on the move who arrive in the territory The entities travel to Brussels to present the results of the report “Human Rights Violations in the Southern Border of the Spanish State 2021-2022 - Institutional racism, borders [...]
The system of impunity is maintained and once again justice is denied to the victims of Franco's regime.
What was to be the first declaration of victims of Franco's torture before Spanish courts is suspended in the same court It was an event of great importance and exceptionality not only for the plaintiff, but for the more than one hundred people who have filed complaints in the last 6 years The [...]
Civil society organisations denounce to the UN that Spain is in breach of the Convention against Torture
Civil society organisations present orally before the UN Committee against Torture the contents of a report that shows serious deficiencies and human rights violations in Spain A group of civil society organisations, including the Centre for the Defence of Human Rights (Centre per la Defensa dels [...]
First breach in the wall of impunity for the crimes of Franco's regime
After 6 years of struggle in the Spanish courts and 100 complaints filed, the first declaration of a victim of Franco's torture in a Spanish court has been made The social organisations urge the public authorities and political parties to adopt all the necessary measures to ensure that this exceptional event ceases to be an exception to the rule of law.
The expert report on Silvia, a migrant woman assaulted by Ertzaintza police officers, is accepted.
Bypassing the principles of the United Nations “Convention against Torture”, Silvia had been prevented from providing her defence with the Istanbul Protocol drawn up by the Sir[a] Centre, which accredits the abuses The Provincial Court finally admitted yesterday during the trial, the expert report drawn up by the Sir[a] Centre on Silvia. A resident of Getxo, [...]
Sira provides expertise to a victim of obstetric violence in Spain, who brought her case to the UN
El Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Contra la Mujer de la ONU le dio la razón e instó a España a adoptar medidas para erradicar la violencia obstétrica Encontramos sintomatología postraumática, provocada tanto por la vivencia de profunda indefensión durante el parto, como por la falta de reconocimiento por parte de las instituciones […]