PhD student's impactful report on housing crisis in Spain

Koldo Casla, a PhD student in European and International Studies, is the author of a new report on mortgage evictions and the right to housing in Spain, released by Amnesty International Spain last 23 June (available here in Spanish). The launch of the report had a huge media impact in Spain, with coverage by all major media groups including the English edition of El País, and it became trending topic on Twitter in Spain (#UnaPuertaUnaHistoria). Koldo also published a short piece on the Huffington Post (in Spanish).  

As part of its campaign, Amnesty International attempts to get 70,000 signatures on a petition in support of the key recommendations of the report. Based on international human rights law, the report denounces the regulation and practice of mortgage evictions in Spain, which have hit hundreds of thousands of people since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008. It also denounces the deliberate and unjustified retrogressive measures on the protection of the right to housing.