On July 18, 2025, the United Nations Human Rights Committee adopted the final observations related to Spain’s seventh periodic report, contained in the official document CCPR/C/ESP/CO/7. The examination of the report took place during sessions held on July 2 and 3, 2025, and the observations were adopted at the plenary session on July 15. This monitoring...
On this day, July 17, 1998, the Statute of the International Criminal Court (the “ICC”) was adopted in Rome by the international community and entered into force on July 1, 2002. International criminal justice was born with the intention of ensuring that no one is above the law, especially when it comes to heinous crimes...
Yesterday, the Joint Declaration on the Conclusion of the Emergency Conference on Palestine, convened by the Hague Group, was adopted in Bogotá. This marks a significant moment in the fight against international impunity, as more than thirty countries, brought together at the initiative of the Governments of Colombia and South Africa, gathered to coordinate legal...
On 8 July, María Bueno, president of the Alumbra Association and the International Platform Te Estamos Buscando (We Are Looking for You), received an official certificate from the Civil Registry recognising the civil existence of her daughter María, born on Christmas Day 1981 in a village in the province of Cádiz. Her case is one...
2025 marks 30 years since the Srebrenica genocide, one of the greatest tragedies in Europe since World War II. To mark this commemoration, the United Nations General Assembly in May 2024 adopted a resolution, led by Germany and Rwanda, establishing July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Remembrance of Srebrenica in 1995. In...
On July 7 and 8, 2025, the 19th edition of the Summer Courses of the University of Jaén was held in the town of Torres, located in the province of Jaén. This well-established academic initiative once again counted on the active collaboration of FIBGAR in its organization. This year’s course, titled “Disinformation and Democracy: Challenges and...
Last Wednesday, June 18, 2025, the National Chamber of Criminal Cassation, Argentina's highest criminal court, issued a landmark ruling that reinforces the principle of universal jurisdiction and opens a door of hope for the Uyghur people. The court unanimously ruled that there are no legal impediments to open a criminal case for crimes against humanity...
On July 1, we attended the presentation of the Fundamental Rights Report 2025, organized by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA). This experience allowed us to learn first-hand about the main findings of one of the most relevant reports to understand the current situation of fundamental rights in the European Union. The report,...
The International Day of Parliamentarism –established by the UN General Assembly in 2018 through resolution A/RES/72/278– is celebrated annually on 30 June, the date of the creation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in 1889, an organisation that brings together all national parliaments. Parliaments are the cornerstone of democracy, one of the fundamental checks and balances of...
On June 20, 2025, the city of Latacunga hosted the first international seminar on the Organic Law of National Solidarity, an event organized by the Universidad Indoamérica (Latacunga campus), which brought together prominent legal and academic experts to reflect on this new Ecuadorian regulation. In this space for dialogue, the International Baltasar Garzón Foundation (FIBGAR) – Ecuador played...
