Amnesty launches first campaign against evictions in Spain

Rights group Amnesty International launched a campaign against evictions for the first time on Tuesday, tackling the widespread problem in crisis-hit Spain. The conservative government has adopted a series of measures to prevent the evictions of those worst hit by the economic crisis and record unemployment, but Amnesty said they are "insufficient to meet Spain's human rights obligations". The group called for home evictions to be suspended in Spain "as long as there are no g