On September 5th, together with our partners from PATFox, Blueprint for Free Speech and the Cyprus University of Technology we organize the workshop "Countering SLAPP: mitigating the threat of abusive litigation against investigative journalists and human rights defenders." at the 40th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. The week-long...
Last week, our director, Alessia Schiavon, presented the project of PATFox before the panel of "Possible strategies for addressing constraints in civic space." within the framework of the AHRI Annual Conference (Association of Human Rights Institutes), which took place from September 7 to 9 at the University of Deusto...
Today, September 15, 2023, is a historic day for Spain. Julio Pacheco Yepes, victim of arbitrary detention and torture for belonging to an anti-fascist movement that opposed Franco's regime, sits down to testify before a judge. This event will be part of the history of Spain, since it is the first time that a victim...
In 2007, through the resolution on the "Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democraciesThe United Nations General Assembly's "World Day for Safety and Health at Work" was declared the "World Day for Safety and Health at Work". September 15 as International...
For decades, the economic development we have enjoyed has been taking too high a toll on the living beings that inhabit the planet, including people and all their human rights. It is a tendency to believe, in a falsely objective way, that the only possible development is that of the Western countries of the North...
Since 1997, June 26 has been the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture and commemorates the entry into force in 1987 of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter referred to as the Convention). Although the Convention is a milestone in the fight...
Last August 12 was International Youth Day. Declared as such by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999, every year this day is used to draw the attention of the international community to the problems faced by young people and to help develop the potential of youth as partners today. The United Nations Security Council itself,...
Since 2009, the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism has been celebrated on August 23. The aim of this day is "to preserve the memory of the victims of deportations and mass exterminations, while at the same time rooting democracy more firmly and strengthening peace and stability on our continent". With...
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...
