News stories by Inés Benítez

MALAGA, Spain, Aug 09 (IPS) - The corruption scandal enveloping the governing conservative People's Party in Spain and its leader, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, calls into question the funding model for political parties and points towards the need for strict controls, experts say.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Jul 02 (IPS) - A 280-square-metre warehouse in Coín, a municipality in the southern Spanish province of Málaga, is home to a unique type of farm, where insects are raised for human consumption and the production of animal feed. But despite FAO's endorsement of insects as food, there are numerous obstacles holding back the development of this industry.

MALAGA, Spain, May 24 (IPS) - The death of a young Senegalese man from tuberculosis in Spain, following alleged lack of medical care, triggered a new outcry by civil society organisations against the law passed last year that excludes undocumented immigrants from the public health system except in emergencies.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Apr 24 (IPS) - Isabel Rodríguez decided to pull her then nine-year-old son Ulises out of the school system and homeschool him instead – an alternative chosen by more than 2,000 families in Spain, who are calling for a law that would overcome the legal vacuum surrounding the growing phenomenon.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Apr 23 (IPS) - A new mortgage bill approved by Spain's lower house of parliament would merely put a bandaid on the plight of people whose homes are being repossessed, and would not guarantee protection for most families facing eviction, activists complain.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Apr 08 (IPS) - Wholemeal rye bread, lettuce and chard are some of the products on offer from the El Caminito urban vegetable garden at the small organic produce market in this southern Spanish city, with prices set in "comunes", one of more than 30 social currencies circulating in the country.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Mar 27 (IPS) - Spain has more large-scale plantations of genetically modified seeds than any other country in the European Union (EU).

MALAGA, Spain, Mar 13 (IPS) - "They wanted to hire me, and that was something that hadn't ever happened to me before," says Marta Seror, a 25-year-old college graduate from Spain who is now working in an outsourcing company in Poland.

MALAGA, Spain, Mar 04 (IPS) - "We used to be seen as really useful, and now we're a pain in the neck," said Roberto Suárez, an Ecuadorian who was complaining about proposed fines or prison sentences that could target Spanish citizens who help undocumented immigrants.

MALAGA, Spain, Feb 15 (IPS) - Public outcry against evictions this week led Spain's parliament to accept a popular initiative against mortgage-related evictions for unpaid debts, which in the past seven days have led to four suicides.