Every 17 July, the world recalls that in 1998 the international community decided, for the first time on a permanent and institutional basis, that the most serious crimes against humanity would not be consigned to oblivion nor would they depend solely on the political will of states. The adoption of the Rome Statute led to...
On 15 June 2026, the District Court of The Hague sentenced Rafiq al-Qatrib, a former leader of the National Defence Forces (NDF), a paramilitary militia linked to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, to 26 years’ imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Syria between 2013 and 2014. The verdict marks a milestone for the Dutch...
The promise of ‘never again’, solemnly made in the wake of the Holocaust and reaffirmed after every episode of mass atrocity, has become one of the most tragically broken commitments in modern international history. Today, the images from Gaza force us to ask ourselves, once again, what that commitment means when the international community once...
“It sounds strange, doesn’t it? This idea that nature has rights… It’s madness. As if nature were a person! Yet it sounds perfectly normal that large US corporations should enjoy human rights.” Eduardo Galeano (2017) Nature as a subject of rights According to the Earth Law Centre, the rights of Nature (hereinafter RN) are defined as “the specific...
The UNDP warns of a crisis of legitimacy in Latin American democracies The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has published a report analysing democracies and their development in Latin America. The report begins by characterising Latin America as the most democratic developing region in the world, with more than four out of every five citizens living...
FIBGAR’s Ecuador office presents the report on the first session of the series “8M: a 365-day journey”, an initiative designed to promote ongoing spaces for reflection, dialogue and education on women’s rights and the challenges that remain in achieving substantive equality in the various spheres of social, political, economic and cultural life. This first session...
On 25 June, to mark World Refugee Day (20 June), FIBGAR, as part of the RAGAA initiative – Raise Against Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan – took part in the conference “Afghanistan: Refugees and Human Rights in the Face of Gender Apartheid”, organised in Madrid by the Social Policies Secretariat of UGT Madrid and the Progreso...
For decades, Myanmar has been plagued by internal armed conflict, ethnic tensions and serious human rights violations that have affected numerous communities across different regions of the country. Persistent patterns of violence against the civilian population have been extensively documented, contrasting with the absence of effective domestic mechanisms to investigate and punish those responsible for...
On 26 June, as has been the case every year since 1997, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is observed. The truth is that, when referring to this day, particular emphasis is often placed on the international legal instruments designed to eradicate torture. However, the significance of the day does not lie...
On 25 June, the Ateneo de Madrid hosted a day of reflection and dialogue entitled “Sanctions against the International Criminal Court”, organised by Eumans with the support of FIBGAR, alongside No Peace Without Justice and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. The event brought together representatives from the legal, institutional and civil society sectors to...
