UN experts on Thursday urged the Spanish government to ratify a draft bill on “stolen babies” that has been under parliamentary review since 2020, a move that would protect the rights of victims of alleged baby abductions since July 17, 1936.

The experts described the lack of a legal framework addressing the baby abductions in the report:

Despite the pain and mounting evidence of the harm suffered by mothers and families due to so-called theft of babies in Spain, the lack of a comprehensive legal framework has prevented the State from offering an effective response to the victims of these crimes, which often encompassed enforced disappearance. The proposed law seeks to end that silence by establishing real mechanisms for truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-repetition.

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