ASACC of Catalonia

ASACC (Granny @ s Association for joint custody) of Catalonia, we issue the following information:
- On 25th January 2010, members of the association, accompanied by the Legal Counsel of the same, Advocate and Mediator Mr. José Luís Sariego family, were interviewed at the headquarters of the Directorate General for Civil Justice, Freedom and Security European Commission, rue Luxembourg 46, with the Administrator Mr. Markus Zalewski, and the Expert Advisory Civil Justice and the Directorate-General, Mr. Thomas, to inform them of the following facts:
1 .- That in the Spanish State are persistently violating the inalienable rights of thousands of children, rights under the Spanish Constitution, inspired by the UDHR and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, taking as the sole cause that the parents are separated and / or divorce.
2 .- As a consequence of these divorces, whose cases are unrelated, both our granddaughters and grandsons like us, we can not permit or consent, that the separation of our daughters and sons, affecting the normal and necessary relation to our granddaughters and grandchildren have to have with us and the rest of the extended family, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends and even children, which are so important in all aspects of their development, particularly in the affective and emotional .
It is a great hypocrisy to be always talking about protecting children, "children are the future", and then, in practice, are unknown or violate their rights. The same goes for us, "our elders" as the official name, recognizing, verbally, then fundamental rights are being denied by a flawed and nineteenth-century legal practice. We want our grandchildren can interact with us and we with them, as they did before the separation of their parents. PARENTS WHO ARE NOT break up and the grandchildren of their grandparents or vice versa.
3 .- That since the entry into force of Law No. 1 / 2004 of 28 December, Integral Protection Measures against Gender Violence, that is, in just over 5 years, as appears from the Memoirs of CGPJ have been accused of abuse of women, approximately 500,000 men, and intra Spanish citizens, some of our children among them, of whom some 450,000 were acquitted or their cases closed, indicating that misuse is being done this Act is due to the perverse nature of this law, since the beginning of the explanatory memorandum, the Act makes protection of women and at the same time makes all men, for the sole reason of their sex, abusive de facto universal: every man for being a man is a potential abuser. This, without taking into account the non-discrimination on grounds of sex (Art. 14 of the EC. And Article 7 of the UDHR), or the presumption of innocence (Art. 11 of the UDHR) when a complaint of ill treatment, true or false, of a woman to a man.
4 .- ASACC complaint with the Justice Commission in the past five years, there are an estimated 800 to 900 thousand children who have suffered the loss of contact not only with their parents are with their grandmothers and paternal grandparents as well as extended family by the father and vice versa.
5 .- ASACC complaint that the Spanish State is denying the possibility of joint custody of children after divorce or separation, the vague, evil legal regulation has been largely completed, and requests the DG to be Spanish urge the State to make an explicit provision for joint or shared custody as a preferable model like other EU member states.
6 .- ASACC finally complained to the Commission of Justice, which the Spanish State is receiving through the Equality Commission EU European funds apparently are being used indirectly to finance the Spanish political parties, through Equality plans and combat violence against women. So ASACC asked the Justice Commission of the EU that it is investigated, if it is conducting a misuse of European funds by the Spanish Government.
Throughout the meeting, Mr. Zalewski and Thomas meet ASACC that:
1 º .- surprise show by data and events throughout the meeting have been provided to them, saying it is the first time they have knowledge that something is happening in Spain similar to what is denouncing ASACC.
2 .- That the Justice Committee has no power to force any country of the EU to change its laws or ask for explanations of the laws that they pass their parliaments.
3 .- They explain that the best way for the EU to know what's really happening is that ASACC through judicial proceedings or individuals affected by the facts that are reported at this meeting, come to the ECHR in Strasbourg.
4 .- As for the illegal financing of European funds, are demanding more information in writing and shall be sent to the commission for such reports and information in case there is need to open an investigation into it.
5 .- Finally ASACC are informed that the EU is planning a program of coordination of the divorce laws of all European countries, and it would be interesting to extend these proposals to the Commission of the communities affected.
Finally, ASACC would like to thank the Delegation to the EU of the Generalitat de Catalunya in Brussels, its unqualified support and help to make this meeting possible.
Barcelona, January 28, 2010