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Articles tagged with: UN

16 September 2020 08:08 PM

Jailed Catalan leaders greet pro-independence protesters before entering prison after penitentiary privileges were removed last July (by Estefania Escolà)

UN group renews call for release of Catalan leaders despite Spain’s criticism

United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention insists seven pro-independence leaders should be freed

Catalan Trial

10 July 2020 04:52 PM

Jordi Cuixart's lawyer, Olivier Peter, in Geneva, January 22, 2020 (by Natàlia Segura)

Jailed activist's lawyer calls on UN Rapporteur to press Spain to release prisoners

Jordi Cuixart will have spent 1,000 days in prison "arbitrarily" come Monday his representative says

Catalan Trial

05 June 2020 11:44 AM

The defendants in the Catalan independence trial at the Spanish Supreme Court on April 10

Spain ‘ignored’ UN call to release jailed politicians for a year: pro-independence groups

United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated that detentions were “against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”

Politics

12 February 2020 06:34 PM

Catalan foreign minister Alfred Bosch speaking to the press in Paris on October 2, 2019 (by Nazaret Romero)

Catalan government defends contribution to UN Human Rights Office

Minister denies possible influence saying Spain contributes "10 times more"

Politics

27 November 2019 12:32 PM

Former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras (top left), seated next to the former president of the Catalan National Assembly, Jordi Sànchez (by Sílvia Jardí)

Spain ignores UN's demands to release Catalan leaders, says pro-independence group

The body had set a 6-month deadline for the freedom of the jailed political figures

Politics

23 September 2019 12:09 PM

Calvet feels that regional governments hold the key to climate change (by Gerard Artigas)

Catalonia favors regional governments for battle against climate change at UN HQ

Catalan minister Damià Calvet and Barcelona mayor Ada Colau are in New York this week

Society

20 September 2019 07:54 PM

The public 'hanging' comes during an important fortnight for climate change in Catalonia (by Laura Fíguls)

Public ‘hanging’ kicks off Fridays for Future week of action

Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau will go to UN climate change summit in New York on Monday

Society

08 August 2019 07:27 PM

Close up image of cows at Campllong farm. (Photo: Xavier Pi)

UN says eat less meat to help combat climate crisis

IPCC report urges change of diet to free up land, preserve forests, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Society

22 July 2019 12:57 PM

Facade of the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo: Jordi Pujolar)

Demands for UN to look into rights 'infringements' in Spain intensify

Recent reports sent to United Nations allege Spanish authorities have abused basic rights in response to 2017 independence bid

Politics

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