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Title: Scientology Volunteers Bring Human Rights Education to Madrid Streets Amid Housing Debate

Brussels, Belgium, 22nd Oct 2026 — Volunteers associated with the Church of Scientology of Madrid, Youth for Human Rights and Fundación MEJORA, a Spanish foundation holding Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), have been taking human rights education directly to the streets of the Spanish capital, distributing informational booklets designed to help residents and visitors better understand the 30 articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.The initiative forms part of an international educational programme supported by the Church of Scientology, which uses printed materials, audiovisual resources and community outreach to explain fundamental rights in accessible language.The activity comes at a particularly relevant moment for Madrid, where public debate over housing, evictions and social protections has intensified following weeks of demonstrations and an ongoing protest encampment in Puerta del Sol, one of the city’s best-known public squares.Although the human rights education initiative is independent of the housing protests, both are taking place against a backdrop of heightened public attention to fundamental rights, civic participation and the responsibilities of democratic institutions.Bringing the Universal Declaration into Everyday LifeThe volunteers are distributing What Are Human Rights?, an educational booklet presenting the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948.The publication explains rights such as equality before the law, freedom of expression, freedom of thought and religion, peaceful assembly, education, and access to an adequate standard of living.Rather than focusing on a particular polit...

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