Human rights groups and politicians in Spain have spoken out after a court ruled that a controversial and false election poster for the far-right Vox party should not be withdrawn because it is legitimate political expression, and because the unaccompanied foreign minors it depicts in a relentlessly negative light are “an obvious social and political problem”.
Good intentions gone wrong. That is what Spain’s state postal service, Correos, is facing after the launch of “Equality Stamps.”
The stamps were part of a campaign ostensibly meant to combat racism, and they were to debut with different monetary values. The lighter the skin tone, the higher the price of the stamp.
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Spain has deployed troops after record numbers of migrants entered its enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco.
At least 6,000 people reached Ceuta in a single day, Spanish officials say.
They say the migrants – who include about 1,500 minors – either swam around the border fences that jut out into the sea or walked across at low tide.
Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez has vowed to restore order. Spain says it has already sent some 2,700 migrants back – but not the minors.
