Pau Pérez Sales, new UN Special Rapporteur on torture
The United Nations Human Rights Council today approved the appointment of Catalan psychiatrist Pau Pérez Sales as the new Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The Special Rapporteur on torture is part of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, the principal body responsible for addressing human rights abuses.
Living with dignity: Collective experiences in the face of loss of housing and expulsion from the home.
Once again, in commemoration of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Sira Center is organizing a roundtable discussion to reflect on issues related to torture and/or ill-treatment. This year, we will focus on the psychosocial impacts of housing violence and the various forms of […]
How to improve the mental health of migrant children?
This Guide offers a practical roadmap for strengthening the mental health and emotional well-being of unaccompanied migrant children in Spain. Based on the systematization of the pilot experience in the Autonomous City of Melilla, the guide proposes a model of intersectoral local coordination that integrates the health, education, and social sectors.
The intellectual work of Alberto Fernández Liria brings together professionals and leaders in mental health in an event recognizing his professional and activist career.
On June 4th, the event "The Intellectual Work of Alberto Fernández Liria: Rigor, Ethics, and Social Commitment" was held in the auditorium of the Ministry of Health. This gathering was dedicated to recognizing the professional, intellectual, and activist career of psychiatrist Alberto Fernández Liria. The event was opened by the Minister of Health, […]
Pau Pérez stresses before the UN that the permanent suffering caused to families by enforced disappearance is torture
The clinical director of the Sir[a] Center presented the special issue of the Torture Journal, focused on the consideration of enforced disappearance as torture, to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. He was joined by Helena Solà Martín, senior legal policy advisor at the World Organisation Against Torture […]
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 [...]