By Baltasar Garzón, Honorary Chairman of FIBGAR
Today, more than ever, 75 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10/12/1948), we must vindicate its validity. Today, the systematic violation of that right is a painful fact that can be observed in many places in the world, especially in Gaza, where the degradation of the barbarism that is taking place has made any justification that might have existed for the first aggression disappear.
We have the obligation to denounce it and do everything in our power to advance in the defense of the most vulnerable, who, day by day, see their most basic rights to a dignified life, and to life itself, humiliated by wars, persecutions, tortures, terrorism, famines caused by food speculation, extreme poverty, fueled by the most spurious economic interests, climate disasters caused by human action and an appalling negationism, extreme violence, and the most spurious economic interests, climate disasters caused by human action and an appalling negationism, famines caused by food speculation, extreme poverty fueled by the most spurious economic interests, climate disasters caused by human action and a lacerating denialism, male violence against women and ideological discrimination, among other rights.
It is time for action, eliminating indifference to the advance of extreme policies that deny or disregard these rights, including the right to memory. To remain silent is to be complicit in these abuses.
10/12/2023
