Every 17 July, the world recalls that in 1998 the international community decided, for the first time on a permanent and institutional basis, that the most serious crimes against humanity would not be consigned to oblivion nor would they depend solely on the political will of states. The adoption of the Rome Statute led to...
On 15 June 2026, the District Court of The Hague sentenced Rafiq al-Qatrib, a former leader of the National Defence Forces (NDF), a paramilitary militia linked to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, to 26 years’ imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Syria between 2013 and 2014. The verdict marks a milestone for the Dutch...
The promise of ‘never again’, solemnly made in the wake of the Holocaust and reaffirmed after every episode of mass atrocity, has become one of the most tragically broken commitments in modern international history. Today, the images from Gaza force us to ask ourselves, once again, what that commitment means when the international community once...
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 26 June, as has been the case every year since 1997, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is observed. The truth is that, when referring to this day, particular emphasis is often placed on the international legal instruments designed to eradicate torture. However, the significance of the day does not lie...
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...
