Revista Abogacía Spanish no. 125
NUMBER 125. DECEMBER 2020
The number 125 of the revista Abogacía Española focuses on the XXII edition of the Human Rights Awards for the Legal Profession and the VII Congress on Human Rights for the Legal Profession, which, on this occasion, has had as a driving force the defense of access to universal health.
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XXII Advocacy Human Rights Awards: access to health for all as an inalienable goal
The pandemic caused by Covid-19 has completely changed our vision of the world during 2020. For this reason, the XXII Human Rights Awards of the Advocacy recognize the fight to alleviate this health crisis and to tear down all the barriers that they put in danger one of humanity's most valuable assets. The director of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom, the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), the photojournalist Jesús Blasco de Avellaneda and Elena Arce, winner of the “Nacho de la Mata” Award, received in within the framework of the Annual Conference of the Legal Profession, the awards that value their commitment to health and to society.
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The need to establish human rights protection in pandemic management
El Decalogue for the protection of Human Rights in pandemics, coordinated by Francisca Sauquillo and presented at the VII Congress of Human Rights of Lawyers, analyzes the main rights affected during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on vulnerable people and groups who have suffered the most its devastating consequences, such as the elderly, people with disabilities or chronic diseases, children, the prison population and migrants or refugees.
Conciliation in the Legal Profession: vindication in a Christmas "without rest"
The reconciliation of personal and professional life continues to be one of the pending achievements of the world of work, especially in professions such as Law, which adds more difficulties due to the unification of criteria in the suspension of hearings and procedural acts. At Christmas time the work of lawyers is even more difficult. This is how the general feeling of the lawyers can be summed up, who relentlessly highlight the need for conciliation - also at Christmas - to be a priority element in the imminent legal reforms.
DO NOT MISS…
Boticaria García: “I recommend to lawyers 'eat Portugal', that half of their plate resembles the flag of the neighboring country, a lot of green and a lot of red
Marián Garcia, better known as Boticaria García, combines teaching with intense health outreach work in the media and social networks. It defends that access to health is a fundamental right, a specific action on the fake news, and advises how a lawyer's diet should be healthy.
