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Eva Belmonte

About Eva Belmonte

Eva Belmonte is a Spanish journalist expert in investigating and processing public information and data. She designs, develops and edits all of Civio’s projects. In 2019 Eva was awarded a Data Journalism Award for her personal portfolio.

The suicide rate among people in pretrial custody is double that of convicted prisoners

By , , , , , |2023-05-11T10:29:37+01:00May 17th, 2022|Tags: , , |

In Europe there were 17.5 suicides per 10,000 people in pretrial detention in 2021, while the proportion was 8.54 deaths in the rest of the prison population.

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One in five people in EU prisons are in pretrial detention

By , , , , , , , , , |2023-04-04T03:17:13+01:00May 10th, 2022|Tags: , , |

People waiting for a final sentence often suffer worse conditions than convicted prisoners, even if they're innocent.

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Is the EU’s asylum system ready to welcome Ukrainian refugees?

By , , , , |2023-05-09T11:27:13+01:00April 4th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Ukrainian refugees now enter the EU under the aegis of the ultra-fast special protection system, but regular reception centres across the Union are piling up hundreds of thousands of applications and rejecting many. EU members states' asylum systems average more than 15 months of delay. 

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The postcode lottery of publicly-funded assisted reproduction in Spain

By , , , , , |2023-04-04T02:50:28+01:00November 29th, 2021|Tags: , , , |

Many autonomous communities are not providing the bare minimum of provision in Spain’s health service and are using stripped back services, age limits and imposing fees in order to avoid providing the service.

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Spain, Czechia, Denmark and Belgium are the meccas of reproductive tourism

By , , , |2023-04-04T02:47:47+01:00November 10th, 2021|Tags: , , |

Barriers in many European countries push thousands of people abroad to access assisted reproductive technology techniques. In some cases, they take out huge loans to pay for the treatments.

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More than half of European countries prohibit access to assisted reproduction for lesbians and almost a third do so for single women

By , , , , |2023-05-09T12:28:03+01:00November 2nd, 2021|Tags: , , , |

The situation is much more difficult for trans and intersex people. In addition to the legal barriers, they face economic stumbling blocks: most public health systems cover only part of the costs or have very long wait lists or narrow access criteria.

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Half of the European countries levy the same VAT on sanitary towels and tampons as on tobacco, beer and wine

By , |2023-04-03T21:59:40+01:00July 17th, 2019|Tags: |

The Spanish government has announced its intention to reduce VAT on sanitary towels and tampons in the 2019 budget. Since 2007, European law allows a reduction to the so-called Tampon Tax, although countries such as Hungary, Switzerland and Denmark continue to apply a general rate on such products.

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