More child- and adolescent-friendly courts: "It's about humanizing justice"

More child- and adolescent-friendly courts: “It’s about humanizing justice”

If a courtroom causes some discomfort to any adult – being an environment that is not very friendly at first glance – imagine for children and adolescents. There are doctrinal studies that offer recommendations to make that space more welcoming for them, but the Departament de Justícia de la Generalitat – in coordination with the Drets Socials – has wanted to go one step further. How? By creating a practical guide, in the civil field, for the hearing of children and adolescents in family judicial proceedings.

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An evacuee due to the fire in Los Gallardos (Almería), after returning home: “Miraculously we have not suffered any damage”

An evacuee due to the fire in Los Gallardos (Almería), after returning home: “Miraculously we have not suffered any damage”

“Hello, we have miraculously escaped suffering damage in our valley area; it seems that others in higher areas have indeed suffered damage, but I believe all residents are safe.” With these words, Rubin, a 78-year-old Welsh citizen, who has lived in the El Pinar de Bédar urbanization for 25 years and had to urgently leave his house on Thursday due to the advancing fire, contacted La Vanguardia this Sunday.

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Wildfires have burned 150% more hectares than in 2025 around this time

Wildfires have burned 150% more hectares than in 2025 around this time

Forest fires are proving to be especially severe again this year, something that happens after two years of above-average rainfall. But this favorable rainfall has fostered such lush vegetation that, when it dries out in spring, it has ended up as fuel for the flames. Up to July 5, 50,750 hectares of forest have burned in Spain, which represents an increase of 148% compared to the data from the same period last year.

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Fire stabilization hints at "the beginning of the end" in Los Gallardos

Fire stabilization hints at “the beginning of the end” in Los Gallardos

At the advanced command post in Turre, located just a few kilometers from the serious fire that has been threatening the municipality of Los Gallardos and nearby towns since last Thursday, the atmosphere yesterday was somewhat different. This was confirmed around 11 a.m. when the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, announced that the fire had finally been declared stabilized, so it was downgraded to “operational situation 1” and the gradual return of the thousand people who had been evacuated was authorized. The negative note of the day came at night, when the death of a 93-year-old British woman who was hospitalized at the Torrecárdenas Hospital was confirmed, bringing the death toll to 13. In addition, seven other people remain hospitalized.

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