Each year, on November 25, we commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a date proclaimed by the United Nations to shed light on one of the most persistent human rights violations: violence against women and girls on the basis of gender. The choice of this date is inspired by the...
The complaints in the case against Álvaro Uribe Vélez, represented by his international advisor Bénédict De Moerloose and his lawyer Máximo Castex, have appealed the dismissal of the case by Federal Court No. 2, presided over by Judge Sebastian Ramos. On November 7, 2023, relatives of 11 victims of crimes against humanity perpetrated in Colombia, together...
This year marks 80 years since the Nuremberg Trials, a decisive moment that marked a turning point in the history of international law and human rights. These trials not only punished the main leaders of the Nazi regime but also laid the foundations of legal principles that continue to guide international justice today. After the horrors...
We present RAGAA – Raise Against Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan, an initiative created in collaboration with the association People Help (PH) to expose, document, and denounce the systematic violence suffered by women and girls in Afghanistan. RAGAA arises in response to the urgent need to confront a deeply institutionalized system of oppression whose impact constitutes...
The Baltasar Garzón International Foundation (FIBGAR) has been officially recognised as a memory organisation with its registration in the State Register of Democratic Memory Organisations, under the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory. This registration represents significant institutional support for the work that FIBGAR has been carrying out in defence of human rights, universal justice...
On November 5, 2025, the seminar “Justice, Victims, and Civil Society in the Face of the Challenges of Transnational Organised Crime” was held at the Faculty of Law of the Complutense University of Madrid, organised by FIBGAR and the Complutense University. The event took place as part of the project “University Youth Against Organised Crime”,...
On November 4, a commemorative event was held at the Congress of Deputies to mark the tenth anniversary of the Madrid–Buenos Aires Principles. The meeting brought together jurists, academics, institutional representatives, civil society organisations, and human rights experts to reflect on the progress and challenges in applying the principle of universal jurisdiction, as well as...
Every November 6, the world commemorates the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2001 through Resolution A/RES/56/4. This date seeks to remind us that ecosystems, natural resources, and biodiversity are also victims of human conflicts, and that their protection...
Ending impunity for crimes against journalists remains one of the greatest and most urgent challenges of our time. Every November 2, the world commemorates the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013 through Resolution A/RES/68/163, in memory of two French journalists killed in Mali...
It is difficult to talk about the Day of Remembrance and Tribute to all the victims of the military coup, war and dictatorship without thinking about how limited the reparation they have received throughout these decades of democracy has been. Despite the efforts made by various institutions to offer recognition and moral reparation to the thousands...
