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08/01/2026

FIBGAR is launching the project “Cultivating Democracy: Recipes for Resilience”, an initiative designed to strengthen democratic values and foster collective spaces for reflection capable of generating innovative responses to the challenges currently confronting our societies. This project responds to an urgent reality: contemporary democracies face an increasingly complex set of interconnected threats that compromise both...

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04/01/2026

At FIBGAR, we have been working for several months on the development of our upcoming project: the International Criminal Justice Congress: Progress and Challenges in the Fight Against Impunity. The primary objective of this event is to create a space for analysis, reflection, and dialogue on the current challenges facing international criminal justice, with particular...

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03/01/2026

On 19 November, the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz initiated a new trial concerning crimes committed under the Assad regime in Syria, which, for the first time, will examine the famine and siege of Yarmouk, a former Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. The case concerns four alleged members of the Syrian militia “Free Palestine Movement” (FPM)...

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29/12/2025

Three years have passed since Law 20/2022 on Democratic Memory (hereinafter LMD) came into force on 21 October 2022. This law expands and updates the 2007 Historical Memory Law, adapting it to new social and political circumstances and to the recommendations made by the United Nations and other international organisations and NGOs. However, passing a law...

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23/12/2025

We are bringing the ‘Democracy Labs’ project to a close, an educational initiative developed in the province of Valencia with the aim of strengthening European democratic memory, encouraging critical thinking and promoting citizenship committed to democratic values and human rights. The project, developed in collaboration with the Provincial Council of Valencia, has provided a space...

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23/12/2025

The trial of former Congolese warlord Roger Lumbala Tshitenga began on 12 November and continued until 15 December 2025 before the Paris Assize Court in France. This prosecution, conducted under the principle of universal jurisdiction, represents a historic step towards justice for survivors of mass atrocities committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On...

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23/12/2025

The Minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, presided over the inaugural meeting of the Council for Democratic Memory, a collegiate advisory body designed as a forum for memorial organisations and civil society to participate in the development of public policies on democratic memory. The Council was created in accordance with Law 20/2022...

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Democratic memory and universal jurisdiction
22/12/2025

Latin America is a region that has long carried unresolved historical wounds. With regard to its recent history, the twentieth century was marked by military coups, armed conflict, enforced disappearances and multiple violations of human rights. In particular, during this period repression reached an extreme level of cruelty under the dictatorships that emerged in the...

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13/12/2025

Last Friday, December 12, as part of the activities linked to International Human Rights Day, the screening of the film “As Duas Casas de Xustiza” took place in Cambados, followed by an enriching discussion. The event was jointly organized by the Cambados City Council and FIBGAR, and brought together local residents, professionals from the social...

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