On Saturday, 24 January 2026, we held the event ‘Stolen Lessons: The Comic’ at the Iván de Vargas Library in Madrid, organised in collaboration with Libros con Memoria, the association that emerged from this project and coordinated by Luis Vivas, a secondary school teacher of geography and history. The event was attended by Luis Vivas...
FIBGAR launches the project “Spain as a Promoter of a Gender Approach in the Fight Against Impunity: A Strategic Assessment from the Perspective of Global Justice”, co-funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, through the Secretariat of State for Foreign and Global Affairs. This initiative aims to strengthen Spain’s role in promoting...
FIBGAR launches a new project in which the foundation’s Democratic Memory area will work throughout this year, aiming to address child enforced disappearances and the issue of stolen babies in Spain from a comprehensive perspective. This initiative focuses on promoting historical memory, justice, and the moral and social reparation of victims, reinforcing the foundation’s commitment...
In these troubling times, FIBGAR wishes to express its strong condemnation of recent events that represent a deliberate challenge to the international legal order. We also wish to take a moment to call for reflection and collective action. The large-scale military action carried out by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — including the...
Over recent months, various organisations have worked to engage British parliamentarians in the reforms deemed necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom can play a more proactive role in the fight against international crimes. In particular, attention has focused on the proposal to amend the International Criminal Court Act (ICCA) 2001, introduced in the UK...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
