Human Rights

[roda]

I am a UK citizen and live full time in Spain. I was talking to a Spanish lawyer today and I said that I thought my Human Rights were being abused. I won't go into details. Her reply was, and I quote verbatim, " You are in Spain." I was somewhat taken aback by this comment as it implied that Human Rights were not recognised in Spain.
Is there a Spanish Law Society that I could contact?
Thanks in advance for any comments and/or advice.

[New Judge]

You need to bear in mind that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is deliberately vague and is subject to many different interpretations. The UK is probably among the countries who place the most liberal interpretation on it and rulings are usually made in the UK Courts (since the ECHR was subsumed virtually word for word into our own 1998 Human Rights Act). Behaviour by UK public authorities (which is principally what the ECHR addresses) is usually regulated to accommodate that.

Other countries may not be so generous in their interpretation of the ECHR and so what may succeed as action in the UK may not do so elsewhere. If you don't want to provide any details it is difficult to comment further.

[Buenchico]

Spain is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, which it ratified in 1979. The type of matters which come before the European Court of Human Rights are indicated here:
http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/CP_Spain_ENG.pdf

Spain is also a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, having ratified it in 1977. Issues which are currently of concern to the United Nations Human Rights Committe are illustrated here:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16211&LangID=E

The Consejo General de la Abogacía Española is roughly the equivalent of the Law Society here:
http://www.abogacia.es/#

[Khandro]

NJ; //European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is deliberately vague and is subject to many different interpretations.//

This must be true and dependent on local factors, but isn't the purpose of it that if complainant feels that the decision is unfair they can make an appeal directly to Strasbourg?

[New Judge]

Yes it is. But the expectations of people in different parts of the continent vary. I doubt in many countries covered by the ECHR that Article 8 (the right to family life), for example, is so liberally interpreted as it has been here by our own Supreme Court judges.

[Peter Pedant]

blimey people are taking this question seriously !

my first reaction was tht the lawyer was trying to save you money.....

Simap is a Spanish case -
https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/ldselect/ldeucom/67/6706.htm
which i thought was ooman rights - it may have been an employment directive .....[ docgtors resident in hospital and on call are 'at work']

which goes to show the general principle that spanish cases do get to the European courts

oh ! he may have been referring to the lack of interest in human rights cases in mellila and ceuta ( o golly didja see Kay Birley on sky news pronouncing the last one Quetta ? )

https://www.es.amnesty.org/en-que-estamos/noticias/noticia/articulo/ceuta-y-melilla-un-territorio-sin-derechos-para-personas-migrantes-y-refugiadas/

and from this - I imagine you read Spanith - and the anti foreign language brigade ( coz they be forrin see?) hardly ever come here and so THEY wont complain.....[oh god you have to hear them blaart about foreign languages to believe it]

human rights seem in short supply

[mikey4444]

It depends entirely on what aspect of your human rights you are referring to, and as you won't give us any details, its difficult for us to comment.

[Peter Pedant]

erm not really
depending on the facts or which right
this one complains of wholesale abuse

http://postdigital.es/2014/08/04/14-derechos-humanos-mas-uno-espana-esta-violando-p10994/#

more to be found on goggle
derechos humanos en espana