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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 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...

On World Whistleblowers Day, we are launching a Best Practices Research Report in the field of whistleblower protection, the most recent research carried out in VoiceGuard project. The Best Practices Report released today provides a practical roadmap for strengthening whistleblower protection across the European Union.  It builds directly on the empirical findings of the Needs Analysis...

The start of the trial on 1 June against two former senior officials of the former Syrian security apparatus at the Vienna Regional Court marks a new step forward in European efforts to ensure accountability for crimes committed during the Syrian conflict, and consolidates the growing use of universal jurisdiction by European national courts to...

The process of adopting an International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity continues to move forward within the United Nations. In this regard, following years of debate in the International Law Commission and the General Assembly, the process has entered a new phase with the publication of the proposed amendments submitted...

The Baltasar Garzón International Foundation (FIBGAR) officially presents the project “Rethinking universal jurisdiction: contemporary challenges and recommendations to strengthen the fight against impunity”, a global initiative aimed at critically analysing the current application of universal jurisdiction and contributing to its strengthening as a fundamental tool in the fight against impunity for the most serious international...

The case brought before the Argentine federal courts under the principle of universal jurisdiction to investigate crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela continues to make significant progress. The proceedings, which had already set a historic precedent following the confirmation of the jurisdiction of the Argentine courts to investigate these events, now mark a new key...