Helena Maleno

Quick Facts

Full Name	Helena Maleno
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Aug 1, 1970(1970-08-01)
Age	54
Birthplace	El Ejido
Country	Spain
Horoscope	Leo

Helena Maleno Biography

Helena Maleno is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on August 1, 1970 in El Ejido, Spain. Helena Maleno Garzon, born 1 August 1970, is a Spanish human right defender, journalist and documentalist. She is a specialist in the trafficking and migration of human beings. Caminando Fronteras is her collective. She lives in Morocco and denounces violations of Human Rights at the Western European border. She also supports and empowers sub-Saharan migrants during the migration process, especially women and children who have been victims of violence.

The human rights defender has suffered from harassments, calls and threats for years that have sought to end the work she does through her organisation and put her life at risk. The most severe episode was in Boukhalef (Tangier), where Helena, a human rights defender, was assassinated in 2014. She had tried to protect children and women from racist raids.

On 5 December 2017, Helena Maleno was summoned to appear before the Moroccan judicial system in the Appeals Court. She was accused of “people trafficking, and being in favoring of illegal immigration”. The charges brought against her, mean she can face up to life imprisonment, just for making calls to rescue services to alert them that people attempting to cross the sea were in danger.

In August 2017, she received a photo of a gun loaded with the message “I suggest silence or you will die, you are bothering the authorities”. Social organizations launched a campaign in her behalf under the slogan “defend who defends”, which was signed by more than 500 entities such as Amnesty International, Médicos del Mundo, the Andalusian Ombudsman or political parties. Next, the World Organization Against Torture and the International Federation for Humans Rights issued a communiqué demanding that the states resolve political responsibilities and guarantee the safety of the human rights defender.

The judge confirmed that the allegations were based on four criminal reports prepared and signed by the UCRIF (unity Spanish Police charged with border control). One investigation, which began in 2012 and was not subject to judicial oversight, violates the fundamental rights the Defendant. In their respective reports, the Special Rapporteur for extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions as well as the Special Rapporteur to the situation of Human Rights Defenders at the United Nations highlighted this fact.

Helena Maleno Net Worth

Helena Maleno is one of the richest Journalist from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Helena Maleno 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was born in El Ejido. She began her work with migrants in El Ejido as a labor advisor to the Laborers of the Field Syndicate. She moved to Morocco in 2001 with Ernesto, her son. There she developed friendships and partnerships among organized migrant communities. It conducts research on border externalization and deportations, as well as asylum, for organizations like Sos Racismo or Intermon Oxfam. Between 2007 and 2009, she was a delegate to Morocco for the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid.

Helena was informed by migrant communities that massive Moroccan detentions had taken place in their cities on the 1st of October 2005. Many people were deported, and many died in the desert. The defendant reported the situation by telephone. Luis de Vega, a journalist, wrote in ABC: “Talk to me. Tell me what you can do to keep me going,” was the message they left in desperate calls to her “24 hours a days”, as the journalist stated.

In the field of art, she participates in exhibitions such as Geography and Mobility (Vienna), Utopia (London) and the Political Art Biennial of Cairo. She is the director of several video-reports, 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. In 2015, her collective, Caminando Fronteras, premiered the documentary Tarajal: Transforming pain into justice of which she is a scriptwriter and interviewer. The footage tells the events of the controversial tragedy on the Spanish beach of Tarajal through the perspective of the families of the victims, which are organized in an unprecedented process in sub-Saharan Africa to demand responsibility from European states and achieve justice.

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Helena Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Helena Maleno celebrates birthday on August 1 of every year.