For the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, which is being celebrated today, the Secretary-General of the United Nations – UN António Guterres recalls injustices and anti-Semitism and the growing xenophobia. On this very day, a week before those words, the first Holocaust Museum on the Iberian Peninsula was opened in the city of Porto
About forty crime investigations on falsification of documents related to the entry of foreign players in Portugal are currently underway. The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) has detected about 110 irregular footballers in the last two years in Portugal
The case of a one-and-a-half-year-old baby victim of female genital mutilation (FGM), who was on trial in the Sintra Court, ended this January with the sentencing of the Guinean mother to three years in prison and the compensation paymant of ten thousand euros, in Portugal
A contest, which, in view of the reinforcement of psychological and psychotherapeutic support for children and young victims of domestic violence treated and / or received in the National Support Network for Victims of Domestic Violence (RNAVVD), was launched this January by the Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality in Portugal.The proposal, which comes under the Operational Social Inclusion and Employment Program, takes on an allocation of 2.78 million euros and aims, as stated in a statement by Rosa Monteiro’s secretary’s office, to “address the need for specialized support services , privileging psychotherapeutic approaches focused on trauma, and which assume the designation of RAP – Responses of Psychological Support for children and young people killed from domestic violence
Portugal, which took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, faces the challenge of strengthening international security, defense, capacity
In twenty-seven international missions, 1,706 military personnel, seventy-five tactical vehicles and seven aircraft deployed by Portugal from the Navy, Army and Air Force will be in action. Of these tasks, it is known that ten occur in the service of NATO, five in the European Union, three in charge of the United Nations and nine engaged in bilateral or multilateral acts as described.The three branches of the Armed Forces contribute to the fulfillment of the commitments assumed by the Portuguese with their allies, in the maintenance of peace, security and stability
A man was detained for indications of various crimes of child sexual abuse, rape and pornography of minors on 27 December by the Criminal Investigation Department of Aveiro of the Judicial Police, in Portugal
Within the scope of the European Arrest Mandate, a woman and three men were extradited from France and Greece to Portugal in December for crimes of theft, fraud, forgery of documents, qualified theft, rape, sexual abuse of minors and debauchery of private life, money laundering, forgery of documents and criminal association
Portugal Parliament approves PAN recommendation to mobilize the international community to stop crimes against humanity in Mozambique
The coronavirus pandemic has forced Portuguese authorities to face longstanding issues of homelessness and inadequate housing. In the midst of COVID-19, a large number of families – many of them African migrants from – continue to live in hazardous conditions in the Lisbon slum of Bairro da Torre