On August 9, 1982, the first meeting of the Working Group on the Multiple Populations of Indigenous Peoples of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities was held. Since then, the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples has been celebrated every August 9, with the aim of raising community awareness of...
In view of the upcoming General Elections on July 23rd, 2023, the memorialist associations that make up the Truth Commission Platform demand that all candidates who are running for office assume a commitment in their proposals and programs on democratic memory policies, which facilitate the establishment in our country of knowledge of the claims of...
"SLAPP suits are a threat to the rule of law and seriously undermine the fundamental rights of expression, information and association. They are a form of legal harassment and an abuse of the judicial system increasingly used by powerful individuals and organizations to avoid public scrutiny," said Tiemo Wölken MEP following the vote in the...
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...
Faced with an increase in cases of whistleblowers reporting wrongdoing within companies and public institutions, the European Union (hereinafter, the Union or the EU, indistinctly) was under pressure to establish a policy to protect whistleblowers, which eventually crystallized in Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law...
World Refugee Day is commemorated every June 20, a date that invites us to reflect on the difficult reality faced by millions of displaced people in search of safety and protection. This day reminds us of the importance of promoting and protecting the rights of those who have been forced to flee their homes due...
On June 14, 2023, in the framework of the European project PATFox (Pioneering AntiSLAPP Training for Freedom of Expression) and with the support of the Illustrious Provincial Bar Association of A Coruña, we organized the training day "New threats to democracy: How to counteract SLAPPs". The event was attended by lawyers, academics and representatives of ICA...
In recent years, a discourse based on racism, xenophobia, intolerance, ethnocentrism, discrimination, inequality, exclusion, marginalization and criminalization against this sector of the population, aimed at the construction of the Other understood as a danger, as an enemy, has been growing stronger. Recurrent targets of hate speech are national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities, already vulnerable communities,...
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has recently published the European Union Fundamental Rights Report 2023. This document reviews the achievements in this field during 2022 and identifies the main areas of concern. Thus, the report focuses mainly on the problems arising from the war in Ukraine and provides a comprehensive analysis of...
At the Diplomatic Conference held from 15 to 26 May in Ljubljana, Slovenia, organized by the MLA initiative[1], which includes the Netherlands, Belgium, Slovenia, Argentina, Senegal and Mongolia, the Ljubljana-Hague Convention (hereinafter, the Convention) was adopted after 12 years of negotiation. This document enables cooperation between countries for the investigation and prosecution of crimes of...
