• 07 March 2016

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    Category : Interview

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    “The Spanish organ donation and transplant system has been shown to be the best in the world”

    We interview Jaume Tort. The Director of the Catalan Transplant Organisation (OCATT) is working with the French Biomedicine Agency on two projects, both managed by FIIAPP and funded by the European Union, aimed at strengthening the donation and transplant system in Croatia and Moldova.

    According to the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, Spain has been the world leader in organ and tissue transplants for 24 years. In 2015, there were 13 transplants per day ...

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  • 18 January 2016

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    Category : Opinion

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    Access to justice for foreign women deprived of their liberty in Peru

    EUROsociAL, the cooperation programme of the European Union, has contributed to the creation of a defence protocol to allow foreign women in different prisons in Peru to efficiently access justice and receive better assistance.

    In Peru's prison population, there are two groups especially vulnerable to overcrowding and living conditions in prison: on the one hand, young people, 11% of the total; and on the other, foreign women, 90% of whom are serving sentences for ...

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  • 30 October 2015

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    Category : Opinion

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    The engine room of the EUROsociAL annual conference

    Every EUROsociAL annual conference has had its engine room. In Lima, it was Room 212; in Brussels, the office of the FIIAPP “antenna”; in Antigua, we lost ourselves in the corridors and cloisters of the Training Centre; and lastly, in Madrid, it was the Octavio Paz room.

    Sala de máquinas del encuentro

    Each place has its share of anecdotes. In Lima we would gather after dinner until the wee hours in an atmosphere that resembled a newsroom more than a hotel room. There, the phone stopped ringing at two in the morning... but at five it was ringing again. Your humble...

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  • 01 October 2015

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    Category : Reportage

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    17 objectives for transforming our world

    FIIAPP shares the 17 objectives and 169 associated goals to be achieved under the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda for the next 15 years.

    The European Union defines the 2030 Agenda as a universal framework for all countries to help eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development by 2030. The Agenda, which was adopted at the United Nations headquarters, includes a set of

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