The Council of Europe’s 2024 annual report by the Secretary General, “Towards a New Democratic Pact for Europe”, offers a timely and urgent reflection on the state of democracy across the continent. Despite Europe’s relatively strong performance in global indices on human rights and democratic governance, the report reveals deep and persistent challenges to democratic institutions,...
On Wednesday 7 May 2025, our head of democratic memory and transitional justice, Nadia Gayoso, was at the Provincial Council of Badajoz together with Manuel Candalija, Director of the Department of Culture, Sport and Youth, and Juan Francisco Ceballos, Head of the Historical and Democratic Memory Service, presenting the two activities that FIBGAR will carry...
Date: 26 March 2025 from 10h to 14h Place: Paraninfo de la Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Plaza Menéndez Pelayo, Ciudad Universitaria) FIBGAR, El Club de las 25 and the Equality Unit of the Complutense University of Madrid celebrate the presentation of the Network of Women for Memory and Democracy (REDMEM), an initiative dedicated to...
This year marks 31 years since one of the greatest tragedies in our recent history: the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Every 7 April, the world commemorates the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This date, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2003, marks the beginning...
On 8 and 9 May, a series of educational workshops focusing on exile and European democratic memory were held in two different secondary schools in the province of Badajoz. These activities were part of an initiative funded by the Provincial Council of Badajoz, with the participation as teachers of Nadia Gayoso de la Calle and...
Europe Day is celebrated every May 9, a commemorative date that invites us to reflect on the origins, the journey and the future of the European project. This day celebrates the Schuman Declaration, pronounced in 1950, as the starting point of a united Europe, whose raison d'être is to ensure peace and cooperation among peoples...
‘For hundreds of thousands of years, man has struggled to make a place for himself in nature. For the first time in the history of our species, the situation has been reversed and today it is indispensable to make a place for nature in the world of man’. With this sentence by the Argentinean poet Santiago...
On 5 March, in the framework of the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the session dedicated to the interactive dialogue on the Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/58/36), published on 9 January 2025, took place. In this meeting, the role of Transitional Justice in peacebuilding and sustainable...
On 26 March we held the presentation event of our new Network of Women for Memory and Democracy (REDMEM). This occasion was held in collaboration with the Asociación El Club de las 25 and the Equality Unit of the Complutense University of Madrid, in the Paraninfo of the Faculty of Philosophy of the same university. This...
Since 2011, as a result of Resolution 65/196, the "International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Violations of Human Rights and Victims' Dignity" has been commemorated every 24 March. The day was chosen to honour and pay tribute to the Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who was assassinated on 24 March 1980 in...
