Small island states take large greenhouse gas emitting countries to court The small island states of the Pacific are increasingly affected by the adverse effects of the climate and environmental crisis. Rapidly rising sea levels and extreme weather events are threatening their very survival and, with it, the human rights of all their inhabitants. In this way,...
On September 5th, together with our partners from PATFox, Blueprint for Free Speech and the Cyprus University of Technology we organize the workshop "Countering SLAPP: mitigating the threat of abusive litigation against investigative journalists and human rights defenders." at the 40th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. The week-long...
Last week, our director, Alessia Schiavon, presented the project of PATFox before the panel of "Possible strategies for addressing constraints in civic space." within the framework of the AHRI Annual Conference (Association of Human Rights Institutes), which took place from September 7 to 9 at the University of Deusto...
Today, September 15, 2023, is a historic day for Spain. Julio Pacheco Yepes, victim of arbitrary detention and torture for belonging to an anti-fascist movement that opposed Franco's regime, sits down to testify before a judge. This event will be part of the history of Spain, since it is the first time that a victim...
In 2007, through the resolution on the "Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democraciesThe United Nations General Assembly's "World Day for Safety and Health at Work" was declared the "World Day for Safety and Health at Work". September 15 as International...
For decades, the economic development we have enjoyed has been taking too high a toll on the living beings that inhabit the planet, including people and all their human rights. It is a tendency to believe, in a falsely objective way, that the only possible development is that of the Western countries of the North...
Alessia in Cambridge: Fighting SLAPPs at the 40th International Symposium on Economic Crime Alessia Schiavon, executive director of FIBGAR, presented the PATFox (Pioneering anti-SLAPP Training for Freedom of Expression) project at the 40th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, during the conference entitled "Countering SLAPPs". This conference focuses on mitigating abusive litigation against investigative journalists and...
El 26 de junio es, desde 1997, el Día Internacional de las Naciones en Apoyo de las Víctimas de la Tortura y conmemora la entrada en vigor en 1987 de la Convención de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas contra la Tortura y Otros Tratos o Penas Crueles, Inhumanos o Degradantes (en adelante, la Convención). Si...
El pasado 12 de agosto fue el Día Internacional de la Juventud. Declarado como tal por la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas en 1999, todos los años se utiliza este día para llamar la atención a la comunidad internacional sobre los problemas que enfrentan los jóvenes y para ayudar a desarrollar el potencial de la...
Desde 2009, el 23 de agosto se celebra el Día Europeo de Conmemoración de las Víctimas del Estalinismo y el Nazismo. El objetivo de este día es “preservar la memoria de las víctimas de las deportaciones y las exterminaciones en masa, enraizando al mismo tiempo más firmemente la democracia y reforzando la paz y la...
