More than 130 civil society organisations from 56 countries, including FIBGAR, as a member of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), have signed a joint statement calling on States Parties to the ICC to take collective action in response to recent withdrawals from the Rome Statute and growing attacks against the Court. In recent...
On 13 July 2026, the Munich Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) convicted an Iraqi couple, Twana H.S. and Asia R.A., of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggravated sexual abuse of minors against two Yazidi girls, as well as membership of Islamic State (IS). The court sentenced the man to life imprisonment and the woman...
Towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the European Union decreed that every 23 August should be set aside to commemorate the victims of totalitarian regimes. Less than ten years later, political trends in the region shifted towards a rise in the influence of right-wing nationalist parties in the European Parliament....
In May 2026, Griffith Law School and the Griffith Asia Institute, in collaboration with FIBGAR and the Asia Justice Coalition, organised the international workshop ‘Prosecuting Asia-Pacific International Crimes in Domestic Courts’ in Brisbane. The event brought together experts, academics, legal professionals, civil society organisations and human rights defenders to analyse the challenges and opportunities posed by...
Five years after the Taliban seized Kabul, Afghanistan continues to face one of the world’s most serious humanitarian and human rights crises. The country is in a situation characterised by extreme poverty, dependence on international aid, the deterioration of public institutions and the absence of effective safeguards for the exercise of fundamental freedoms. Millions of...
The Independent Whistleblower Protection Authority (AIPI) has marked a new milestone in the consolidation of the Spanish whistleblower protection system with the establishment of its Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee. The body was established with the attendance of 11 of the 13 appointed members, alongside the president of the AIPI and the director of the Monitoring...
This 30 July marks World Day Against Trafficking in Persons under the slogan ‘Caught in the Scam’. A slogan that highlights a rapidly expanding form of exploitation: people recruited with false promises of employment and confined to centres where they are forced, through violence and threats, to commit digital fraud on an industrial scale. But...
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...
Today, 24 July 2026, the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute is meeting in an extraordinary session at the United Nations headquarters in New York to decide on the possible removal of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim A. A. Khan KC. This is an unprecedented situation – as, for...
On 17 July 1936, a group of military officers rebelled against the legitimate government of the Second Spanish Republic. The uprising began in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, in cities such as Melilla, Tetouan and Ceuta. The following day, 18 July, it spread throughout Spain. The coup plotters’ plan was to seize power within a matter...
