1. Helena Maleno is specialist in the migration and trafficking in human beings, Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Illes Balears.
13 Facts About Helena Maleno
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Helena Maleno developed research on border externalization, deportations and asylum for organizations such as Sos Racismo, Intermon Oxfam or the Jesuit Refugee Service.
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Helena Maleno was a delegate in Morocco of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid between 2007 and 2009.
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Helena Maleno has conducted research in Nigeria, Colombia, Germany, Denmark, France, Morocco, and Spain, where she compares and exposes the problem of trafficking as an international and industrial framework of contemporary slavery.
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Helena Maleno gives conferences and workshops on human trafficking and migration to institutions such as the General Council of the Judiciary of Spain, the regional ombudsmen, Spanish and Latin American universities, local councils and regional governments and organisations such as the International Red Cross, Religious Europeans Against Human Trafficking, the State Coordinator of ONGD and the Fund for Global Human Rights.
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Helena Maleno has inaugurated the Open Borders Conference of New York and closed the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva.
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Helena Maleno is a member of the Panel of Experts for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity and is on the jury of the human rights award of the Spanish Human Rights Association.
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Helena Maleno is the director of several video-reports, and editor of the audiovisual piece Frontera Sur, production assistant of the CNN and BBC documentary Living with illegals and screenwriter of "Children on the road" for Save The Children.
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Helena Maleno needed several months in a wheelchair to recover from her wounds.
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One of the most serious episodes was the one suffered in the neighborhood of Boukhalef in 2014, when Helena Maleno suffered an assassination attempt after trying to protect women and children in racists raids.
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On 5 December 2017, Helena Maleno was summoned to appear before the Moroccan judicial system in the Appeals Court.
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Helena Maleno was accused of "people trafficking, and being in favoring of illegal immigration".
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On March 11 of 2019, The Tangier court investigating the case against Helena Maleno for alleged human trafficking overturned it, recognizing his work as a defender of Human Rights.