News stories by Inés Benítez, page 2

MÁLAGA, Spain, Feb 02 (IPS) - The severe crisis crippling Spain is also sparking some creative responses, such the Okonomía project, a teaching initiative that helps individuals and communities to understand the workings of the economy and make more informed decisions to manage their finances.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Dic 21 (IPS) - A recurring question in crisis-stricken Spain is how to ensure that surplus agricultural products reach those most in need. One response is citizen initiatives to protest the waste of food and to advocate efficient management along the full length of the food chain.

VALENCIA, Spain, Dic 03 (IPS) - "It's really painful to work and not get paid. And I can't report them, because I don't have documents, or a contract," Rossana, one of the many immigrant women working as domestic employees and caregivers in Spain, told IPS.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Nov 13 (IPS) - Out-of-work engineers, family businesses that are falling apart, people working in precarious conditions in an ailing labour market – it's a description of Spain, but it could just as easily be Portugal, Greece or Italy…

MÁLAGA, Spain, Oct 25 (IPS) - Shouting slogans against bank foreclosures, dozens of protesters in this southern Spanish city gathered Wednesday to prevent the eviction of a Moroccan family who couldn’t afford to meet their mortgage payments.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Oct 15 (IPS) - At the height of the economic and financial crisis, the Spanish government is promoting the export of weapons, creating concern among civil society organisations that say commercial interests are prevailing over the law and human rights.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Sep 26 (IPS) - On a parcel of land a few kilometres outside the southern Spanish city of Málaga, unemployed activists are growing 2,000 seedlings of stevia, a plant used by the Guaraní indigenous people for centuries as a natural sweetener that is awakening ever greater interest in Spain.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Sep 24 (IPS) - Over the past year and a half, Spain has been caught up in constant street protests against measures taken to combat the severe economic crisis. But some say the movement has failed to come together around concrete proposals.

MALAGA, Spain, Sep 12 (IPS) - "It’s possible that two children died so that you could have that mobile phone,” says Jean-Bertin, a 34-year-old Congolese activist who wants to end the “absolute silence” around the crimes committed in his country to exploit strategic raw materials like coltan.