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Indigenous human rights defenders face a constant and growing threat around the world. Front Line Defenders' recent report 2024-2025 highlights that while indigenous peoples represent only 6% of the world's population, they make up 17.9% of all human rights defenders killed. This alarming statistic reflects a systemic crisis of violence and criminalisation against those protecting...

On 2 June 2025, the Audiencia Nacional handed down a landmark ruling for transparency and access to information in Spain. It ruled that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation proceeded improperly by refusing Access Info's claim to the self-assessment documents produced by Spain in the framework of the implementation of the United...

At a critical time for the planet, marked by the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution, UN experts have urged Council of Europe ministers to legally recognise the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a fundamental human right. The negotiations focus on the need to establish a binding Additional Protocol to the...

The Omnibus Package is a European Commission initiative that seeks to simplify corporate sustainability regulations, with the aim of reducing the administrative burden on companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. This proposal introduces important changes to key directives such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), the EU...

April 3, 2023 marked the beginning of a paradigm shift in Europe. The first meeting of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law was established and took place. After more than a year of work by experts and stakeholders from the 46 member states of the...

At FIBGAR, we are excited to announce an important step forward in our commitment to promoting democracy, human rights, and citizen participation. From now on, we are part of ALDA – European Association for Local Democracy, a global alliance that brings together local and regional authorities with civil society actors to work together in building resilient,...

"The task of politics is to prevent conflict; the task of education is to establish peace. We must convince the world of the need for a universal, collective effort to lay the foundations for peace." Maria Montessori Every May 16, the world celebrates the International Day of Living Together in Peace, a date that was established by...

The Council of Europe’s 2024 annual report by the Secretary General, “Towards a New Democratic Pact for Europe”, offers a timely and urgent reflection on the state of democracy across the continent. Despite Europe’s relatively strong performance in global indices on human rights and democratic governance, the report reveals deep and persistent challenges to democratic institutions,...

On Wednesday 7 May 2025, our head of democratic memory and transitional justice, Nadia Gayoso, was at the Provincial Council of Badajoz together with Manuel Candalija, Director of the Department of Culture, Sport and Youth, and Juan Francisco Ceballos, Head of the Historical and Democratic Memory Service, presenting the two activities that FIBGAR will carry...

Date: 26 March 2025 from 10h to 14h Place: Paraninfo de la Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Plaza Menéndez Pelayo, Ciudad Universitaria) FIBGAR, El Club de las 25 and the Equality Unit of the Complutense University of Madrid celebrate the presentation of the Network of Women for Memory and Democracy (REDMEM), an initiative dedicated to...