IES RÍA SAN MARTÍN SUANCES, SPAIN

When we came back to school from our summer holidays…

We had to look for ideas…

To Identify ….

Good and Bad examples of how……

are respected

IN OUR LOCAL

We started thinking …

…looking for information…

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.

…in the ICT room.

First we read:

And then we made connections with the

situation in our community and

our country, Spain.

BAD EXAMPLESGREEN TIDE

WHITE TIDE

EVICTIONS

UNEMPLOYMENT

GREEN TIDE

GREEN TIDE

The Green Tide is a movement

in defense of public education and against the privatization of education.

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.

Demonstrations in the Street

GREEN TIDE

Demonstrators usually wear green t-shirts with mottos in defence of public education

ART is inspiring…

WHITE TIDE

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

• 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:

WHITE TIDE

Demonstrations in the Street

WHITE TIDE

WHITE TIDE

EVICTIONS

EVICTIONS

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

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.

EVICTIONS

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

EVICTIONS

Demonstrations in the Street

UNEMPLOYMENT

UNEMPLOYMENT

Unemployment is a result of job destruction caused by the crisis especially in the

construction sector

INDEX OF UNEMPLOYMENTUnemployment Rate In Spain

UNEMPLOYMENT

Job-seekers applying for an unemployment allowance

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.

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:

GOOD EXAMPLES

EQUAL MARRIAGE

HELPING IMMIGRANTS

EQUAL MARRIAGE

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

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.

EQUAL MARRIAGE

EQUAL MARRIAGE

EQUAL MARRIAGE

• 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

HELPING IMMIGRANTS

• 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

HELPING IMMIGRANTS

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.

HELPING IMMIGRANTS

HELPING IMMIGRANTS

This is how we see it…