Derechos Humanos/ Human Rights

We are still in confinement/lockdown, but some of the measures have already been relaxed and over the next few weeks we will have a gradual opening towards "normality".  Looking back, there are facets to be highlighted about how the COVID-19 situation has been dealt with in Spain and how the Spanish society has responded to it. Without a doubt, there are many aspects to be analysed in this question, but we will focus on: why have we, the majority of the Spanish society, complied with the indications of confinement in an uncritical manner?  Firstly, it is true that Spain has been one of the countries that has suffered most, is suffering and will suffer the consequences of the pandemic. In the face of this, we have been imposed very hard and difficult lockdown measures , with severe restrictions on people's mobility and freedom for six long weeks; and two of them, under total confinement.  It is strange that in some European countries certain types of confi...

Today, the globalized world is now lucidly aware of what COVID-19 (Coronavirus) had brought; it has made us all cease, to a hault; it is as if it had put an indefinite pause in our lives. It is clear that we are facing a costly reality, with human, economic and social consequences that nobody dared to predict less than three months ago , given the changing stages that the COVID19 pandemic offers us in each country and their states’ respective responses. Let's focus on people, on how this new "model" of life is already affecting us; a system that has found many of us lose our freedom of movement in effort to drastically stifle the rate of infection, hospitalisation and deaths of the world’s populations. Perhaps we had not thought about this basic freedom before, nor would have thought imagined having to be confined to social isolation, one place for a long and uncertain period of time. When one commits a crime, one can assume that depending on the severity, one ...