Without massive investment and increased action, meeting the 2030 Agenda will remain a complicated challenge. In September 2015, the 193 members of the United Nations approved the well-known 2030 Agenda, an ambitious project of the international community with the aim of fighting poverty, caring for the planet and reducing inequalities over the next fifteen years. Through...
On 28 June 2024, Argentine Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuán asked the federal criminal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina to order international arrest warrants against 25 Myanmar government officials for the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity committed against the Rohingya community between 2012 and 2018. This is the first time that arrest warrants are being...
Yesterday, July 2, the European Union Drugs Agency officially started its activities in Lisbon, replacing the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, which has been operating in Lisbon since 1995. This follows the entry into force of Regulation (EU) 2023/1322 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2023 on the...
In honour of World Whistleblowers' Day, we want to emphasise the importance of responsible citizens who, despite the risk, choose to fulfil their civic duties in defence of transparency, responsibility and accountability. Whistleblowers are important actors in national and European efforts to detect, investigate and tackle corruption: their exposés have brought to light irregularities in public...
On April 23, the Council of Ministers approved an agreement creating three study and technical commissions already foreseen in Law 20/2022, of October 19, on Democratic Memory. The creation of each of these commissions was contemplated in the twelfth, fifteenth and sixteenth additional provisions of the Law. In the twelfth additional provision, the establishment of...
In the last months, in the Valencian Community and in Aragon and Castilla y León, the so-called "Laws of Concord" have been proposed. These legislative measures, to which FIBGAR opposes, constitute a violation of democratic values, as well as a setback of what has been achieved with difficulty by the Spanish society. The approval of just...
The environmental challenges we face today are unprecedented, and have emerged as an issue that threatens global democracies. This was the central theme of the last seminar of our project "VOCES - Voices of civil society for a more sustainable democracy: dialogue between Europe and Latin America" entitled "Challenges of environmental democracy". In this event...
The potential of universal jurisdiction remains untapped, although a positive trend stands out. This is what the 2024 edition of the Universal Jurisdiction Annual Report prepared by TRIAL International, in collaboration with Civitas Maxima, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), the International Federation for Human Rights...
On the 16th of April 2024, the DIRECTIVE (EU) 2024/1069 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 April 2024 on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded claims or abusive court proceedings (‘Strategic lawsuits against public participation") has finally been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. This Directive...
