The document discusses human rights issues in Spain, including unemployment, cuts to education and healthcare, and evictions during the economic crisis. It also mentions positive examples like supporting equal marriage rights and helping immigrants. Specific issues covered include the Green Tide and White Tide protest movements against education and healthcare privatization, high unemployment especially among youth, and over 350,000 evictions in the last five years. The document analyzes these topics in relation to principles of human rights and dignity from the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

1. IES RÍA SAN MARTÍN
SUANCES, SPAIN

2. When we came back to school from
our summer holidays…

3. We had to look for ideas…

4. To Identify ….
Good and Bad examples of
how……

5. are respected

6. IN OUR LOCAL

7. We started thinking …

9. …looking for information…

10. SITUATION IN SPAIN
• The situation in Spain in the last years has
been hard and difficult.
• Unemployment is a big problem.
Unemployment rate is one of the highest in
Europe.
• There have been cuts in Education and Health.
• Young qualified people have to emigrate to
other countries to get a job.

11. …in the ICT room.

13. First we read:

14. And then we made connections with the
situation in our community and
our country, Spain.

15. BAD EXAMPLES
GREEN TIDE
WHITE TIDE
EVICTIONS
UNEMPLOYMENT

17. GREEN TIDE

19. GREEN TIDE
The Green Tide is a movement
in defense of public education
and against the privatization of
education.

20. THE DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS:
• Article 26
Everyone has the right to education.
Education shall be free, at least in the
elementary and fundamental stages.
Education shall be directed to the full
development of the human personality and to
the strengthening of respect for human rights
and fundamental freedoms.

21. Demonstrations in the Street

22. GREEN TIDE
Demonstrators usually wear green t-shirts with
mottos in defence of public education

23. ART is inspiring…

24. WHITE TIDE

26. The White Tide is the protest of doctors,
nurses and sanitary personnel in the streets
against cuts and privatization of public
health system
WHITE TIDE

27. • Article 25
Everyone has the right to a standard of living
adequate for the health and well-being of
himself and of his family, including food,
clothing, housing and medical care and
necessary social services…
THE DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS:

28. WHITE TIDE

29. Demonstrations in the Street

30. WHITE TIDE

31. WHITE TIDE

32. EVICTIONS

33. EVICTIONS
It is the judicial process by which a landlord
may evict a tennant for failure to pay the rent.

35. THE DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS:
Article 17
1. Everyone has the right to own property alone
as well as in association with others.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his
property.

36. EVICTIONS

37. EVICTIONS
Around 350,00 families have been evicted from their
homes in the last five years
The European Union thinks Spanish laws are too tough
on homeowners

38. EVICTIONS

39. Demonstrations in the Street

40. UNEMPLOYMENT

41. UNEMPLOYMENT
Unemployment is a result of job destruction
caused by the crisis especially in the
construction sector

42. INDEX OF UNEMPLOYMENTUnemployment Rate In Spain

43. UNEMPLOYMENT
Job-seekers applying for an unemployment allowance

44. THE DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS:
• Article 23
1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice
of employment, to just and favourable
conditions of work and to protection against
unemployment.

45. 3. Everyone who works has the right to just and
favourable remuneration ensuring for himself
and his family an existence worthy of human
dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by
other means of social protection.
THE DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS:

48. GOOD EXAMPLES
EQUAL MARRIAGE
HELPING IMMIGRANTS

49. EQUAL MARRIAGE

50. THE DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS:
• Article I
All human beings are born free and equal in
dignity and rights.
• Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and
freedoms set forth in this Declaration (…)
without distinction of any kind, such as race,
colour, sex

51. THE DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS:
• Article 16
Men and women of full age, without any
limitation due to race, nationality or religion,
have the right to marry and to found a family.
They are entitled to equal rights as to
marriage, during marriage and at its
dissolution.

52. EQUAL MARRIAGE

53. EQUAL MARRIAGE

54. EQUAL MARRIAGE

55. • The Netherlands 2000
• Belgium- 2003
• Spain 2005
• Canada 2005
• South Africa 2006
• Norway 2009
• Sweden 2009
• Portugal 2010
• Iceland 2010
• Argentina 2010
• England & Wales 2012
• Brazil 2013
• New Zealand 2013
• Denmark 2013
• France 2013
• Uruguay 2013
EQUAL MARRIAGE

56. HELPING
IMMIGRANTS

57. • Thousands of ilegal
immigrants arrive in
Spanish Southern coasts
from Africa looking for a
better life.
• Most of the times they
arrive in small boats
overcrowded boats
(pateras)
HELPING IMMIGRANTS

58. HELPING IMMIGRANTS

59. THE DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS:
• Article 13.
Everyone has the right to freedom of
movement and residence within the borders
of each state.
Everyone has the right to leave any
country, including his own, and to return to his
country.

60. HELPING IMMIGRANTS

61. HELPING IMMIGRANTS

62. This is how we see it…