The principal of Universitat de València, Esteban Morcillo, will make a speech on Saturday (at 9h) at the opening of the 41th general assembly of Amnesty International of Spain, which will be celebrated at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. This centre will host the development of the sessions through Saturday and Sunday.
About 340 activists, of the almost 74,000 partners of the organization, will go to the assembly to discuss the situation on human rights both in Spain and in the world, and to decide future goals. Furthermore, this annual meeting of partners aims to revise the work done through the year. Likewise, the positions of the different government, control and counselling bodies will be chosen or renewed.
On Saturday, from 20.30h, under the slogan of one of the global campaigns of the organization, “My body, my rights”, the participants will go over the streets of Valencia, from Facultats up to Patriarca Place, at a demonstration whose aim is to remind that the sexual and reproductive rights are also human rights.
The organisation reminds us that in some countries such as Morocco, Criminal code makes a distinction between whether the victims are virgins or not; or other countries like Algeria or Tunisia teenager rapists can escape punishment by marrying their victims; or in Burkina Faso medical staff can deny women the taking of contraceptive methods if they do not have the permission of their husbands.
Nilufar Saberi, an activist and Iranian defender, will be in charge of reading the manifest at the end of the protest.
In Spain, although the draft bill on abortion was finally moved away, the organization has has accepted with great concern the presentation of a draft law of the Popular Parliamentary Group to demand teenagers among the ages of 16 and 17 parental consent to access to legal services of abortion and express consent of their legal representatives in case of women with disability.
At the General Federal Assembly of AI, participants will be able to participate in the review of the work done through 2014, a year in which Amnesty reported backward movements in human rights, both in Spain and in the rest of the world. In Spain, restrictions on freedom of assembly, of expression and of information which led to suppose the reforms on Criminal Code and Citizens Security Law were an evidence of that.
Documents and press release: www.es.amnesty.org
Last update: 24 de april de 2015 07:00.
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