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Europe | Spain | Career

Fresh abuse claims from women picking strawberries in Spain for UK market

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Human-rights lawyers are warning that abuse claims by Moroccans picking fruit in Spain for UK supermarkets could amount to “state-sponsored human trafficking”. The international lawyers say Spanish authorities have a legal duty to ensure the allegations by the women – that they have faced exploitation and abuse while harvesting strawberries – are properly investigated by the courts. Two months ago, the Observer reported on the case of 10 Moroccan womenwho had fought for more than a year to have their claims of rape, exploitation and abuse, investigated by the Huelva police and
Europe | France | Corruption

IMF CHIEF LAGARDE TO STAND TRIAL IN FRENCH ARBITRATION DEAL

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France's top court has ruled that International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde must stand trial in France over a 2008 arbitration ruling that handed 400 million euros to a politically-connected business magnate. Lagarde, who was French finance minister at the time of the deal in favor of tycoon Bernard Tapie, is accused of negligence in the case. She has denied wrongdoing. A special court ruled in December that Lagarde should stand trial, but she appealed. France's Court of Cassation on Friday rejected the appeal.
Europe | Greece | Corruption

Mother of Greek ex-minister withdrew $178,000 before capital controls

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The 85-year-old mother of Nadia Valavani, former Greek deputy finance minister from the ruling Syriza party, admitted that she withdrew 200,000 euros ($178,000) from her bank account in Crete on the eve of the imposition of capital controls in the country. “The money was my life savings, I was scared and I took it home,” she said in an interview. After the revelation, many raised political and moral issues after connecting the the two events, accusing the former deputy of fraud.
Europe | Romania | Activism

Two fearless women lead anti-corruption initiative in Romania

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Two Romanian women are spearheading an unprecedented anti-corruption drive that has made politicians tremble and even challenged the prime minister. Laura Kosevi heads the anti-corruption directorate (DNA), while Livia Stanciu is the president of the Supreme Court. Thanks to them, dozens of corrupt former ministers, MPs, senators and judges have been prosecuted and convicted. In early June, news broke that the DNA had launched proceedings against Prime Minister Victor Ponta, accusing him of forgery, complicity in tax evasion and money laundering while he was a lawyer.
Europe | Spain | Corruption

Spain’s Princess Cristina stripped of title

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Spain's King Felipe VI has stripped his sister Princess Cristina of her title as Duchess of Palma de Mallorca in the latest move to distance the royal family from the royal as she awaits trial for tax fraud. Cristina's lawyer, Miquel Roca, said the princess had sent a letter to the king asking for the title to be removed but the palace said the king had made the decision before the letter arrived and he communicated the decision to his sister by phone Thursday. The princess has been indicted as part of a four-year probe into her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, who faces charges including money-
Europe | Germany | Corruption

Germany’s Merkel calls for global emissions trading system

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Saturday for the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS), the bloc's flagship policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, to become a global system. Thousands of power plants, factories and airlines in Europe have to surrender an allowance for every tonne of heat-trapping gas emitted. However, a surplus of allowances has depressed their price on the ETS and has made it cheaper to burn coal than to switch to greener fuels. "This instrument would of course be particularly effective if we could introduce it beyond Europe because then we'd have the s
Europe | U.K. | Corruption

Mothers Watch Your Children: More than 260 charged in online child abuse operation

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Teachers, civil servants and police are among 264 people that have been charged following an probe targeting those accessing child abuse images online. A total of 745 suspected paedophiles have been arrested in the National Crime Agency's Operation Notarise, launched just over a year ago. The agency said 518 children had been protected as a result. Of those charged, 47 were employed in positions of trust or voluntary roles with access to children, the NCA said. NCA director general Keith Bristow said the volume of work related to online paedophile cases had placed a strain on invest
Europe | Great Britain | Corruption

Home Office handling of Westminster child sex allegations slammed

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This week marked a new beginning for the independent panel inquiry into child sexual abuse. The announcement on Thursday of a four-person panel, the confirmation of the power to compel witnesses and the removal of any cut-off date from the Terms of Reference, means the chairman, Justice Lowell Goddard, can now take the inquiry forward, following the evidence wherever it takes her. We already know the trail will lead into our schools and hospitals, our churches, our youth clubs and many other institutions that should have been places of safety but instead became the setting for t

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