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Spain Unwelcome Responsibilities Spain’s Failure to Protect the Rights of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the Canary Islands
HRW Index No.: D1904 July 26, 2007 Also available in 
Download PDF, 654 KB, 117 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Setting an Example? Counter-Terrorism Measures in Spain This 65-page report analyzes aspects of Spain’s criminal law and procedures that fall short of its commitments under international human rights law. Problematic practices include the use of incommunicado detention and secret legal proceedings, limitations on the right to a lawyer during the initial period of detention, and lengthy periods of pre-trial detention. January 27, 2005 Also available in
Download PDF, 329 KB, 72 pgs Purchase online Discretion Without Bounds The Arbitrary Application of Spanish Immigration Law The Human Rights Watch report, "Discretion Without Bounds: The Arbitrary Implementation of Spanish Immigration Law," criticizes the Spanish authorities' uncoordinated and ad hoc application of Spanish Law 8/2000. The report criticizes the arbitrary treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in Spain-in airports, in Madrid, along the Andalucian coast, in the two Spanish cities in North Africa (Ceuta and Melilla), and in the Canary Islands. HRW Index No.: D1406 July 5, 2002 Also available in
Download PDF Purchase online Nowhere To Turn State Abuses of Unaccompanied Migrant Children by Spain and Morocco Moroccan migrant children in Spain are frequently beaten by police and abused by staff and other children in overcrowded, unsanitary residential centers, Human Rights Watch charged in this report. Spain also summarily expels children as young as eleven to Morocco, where Moroccan police beat and ill-treat them and then abandon them to the streets. The sixty-two page report, "Nowhere to Turn: State Abuses of Unaccompanied Migrant Children by Spain and Morocco," documents widespread abuse of Moroccan children who travel alone to the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, located on the North African coast. HRW Index No.: D1404 May 7, 2002 Also available in 
Download PDF Purchase online The Other Face Of The Canary Islands Rights Violations Against Migrants and Asylum Seekers The government of Spain is violating the rights of migrants and asylum seekers who arrive illegally on Spanish shores, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. In the 35-page report, entitled "The Other Face of the Canary Islands: Rights Violations Against Migrants and Asylum Seekers," Human Rights Watch criticized the substandard detention conditions and the inadequate procedural rights afforded migrants and asylum seekers upon their arrival to the Spanish islands of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Conditions there fall below standards set in both national and international law and should spur a drive to improve the treatment of migrants in Spain and throughout Europe, Human Rights Watch said. HRW Index No.: (D1401) February 21, 2002 Also available in
Download PDF Purchase online Spain: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There are indications of under-18s in government armed forces despite conflicting information and impending changes. It appears that 16-year-olds can and will be able to register for recruitment into the armed forces. No distinction seems to be made regarding the age of recruitment and deployment in conflict situations. Children are known to be involved in violent activities linked to the Basque Separatist Movement. June 12, 2001 Spain: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Spain signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997, and deposited its instrument of ratification at the United Nations on 19 January 1999. The treaty entered into force for Spain on 1 July 1999. Prior to formal ratification, the Spanish Parliament passed national legislation that came into force in October 1998.83 The Spanish law follows the provisions of the Mine Ban Treaty, but it does not enact the penal sanctions required by Article 9 of the treaty. The annex to the law states that sanctions will be developed in further implementing legislation. The law includes some provisions on mine clearence and victim assistance, and obliges Spain to destroy the existing stockpiles of antipersonnel mines within three years. August 1, 2000 Prison Conditions in Spain Helsinki Watch urges the Spanish government to end its secretive policy with respect to prisons and describes problems ranging from overcrowding and periodic violence to forced idleness for inmates and very limited visiting privileges for a significant group of prisoners. The report also calls on the Spanish prison administration to observe the Spanish Penitentiary Law which, though a source of pride for many politicians and officials, is largely ignored in practice. Based on dozens of interviews with inmates, prisoners' rights advocates, lawyers, relatives of inmates, officials and others, the report describes the difficulties Helsinki Watch encountered in securing access to prisons and the attempted reprisals against a judge who allowed the delegation to visit a prison despite a governmental objection. HRW Index No.: 1-56432-061-8 April 1, 1992
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