Arenas García, Rafael http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8596-6645
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Article History
Accepted: 17 February 2024
First Online: 29 February 2024
Declarations
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: Rafael Arenas García is vice-president of Impulso Ciudadano, an association that aims to defend democratic principles and fundamental rights (ExternalRef removed). He collaborates with the Asamblea por una Escuela Bilingüe en Cataluña (AEB), an organization that advocates for Catalan-Spanish bilingualism in Catalan schools (ExternalRef removed). He is a member of Societat Civil Catalana (SCC), an organization that advocates for Catalonia to remain in Spain (ExternalRef removed). He was a member of this latter organization’s board of directors from 2014 to 2017 and president from October 2015 to October 2016. He is a party in one of the proceedings cited in this paper, specifically, the application for enforcement filed with the High Court of Justice of Catalonia regarding that court’s ruling of 16 December 2020 (cited in Sect. InternalRef removed). The present paper was written as part of the research project “Secesión, democracia y derechos humanos: la función del Derecho internacional y europeo ante el proceso catalán” (PI: Dr Helena Torroja Mateu; Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities; reference: PID2019-106956RB-I00/AEI/ExternalRef removed).