Sequía en el Amazonas: estamos en medio de una pandemia climática La crisis climática y ambiental que está afectando a la Amazonía, sin duda alguna, dejará consecuencias muy negativas en los ecosistemas de nuestro mundo. Al respecto, Gregorio Mirabal, miembro del pueblo indígena Kurripako de Venezuela, sostiene que lo que está sucediendo es una ‘‘pandemia climática’’,...
Gaza crisis: Israel orders evacuation amid impending offensive Last October 13, Israel issued an urgent evacuation order for more than one million Palestinians in northern Gaza, warning that they had just 24 hours before an imminent ground offensive. This measure, described as "impossible" by the UN, has triggered devastating humanitarian consequences . So far, the...
European Union: concern over new changes in asylum and migration policies European Union (EU) leaders have agreed on a stance against surges in arrivals at Europe's borders and cases of "instrumentalization" of migrants. This agreement would allow EU member states to deviate from the bloc' s usual asylum and reception rules. Amnesty International has expressed concern about...
The dispute between Ukraine and Russia before the International Court of Justice is progressing. The first week of hearings in the proceedings brought by Ukraine before the ICJ for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention concluded last Thursday, the 21st. Russia claimed that the cause of its invasion was to defend the Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine, who,...
Prosecutor's Office supports investigation of torture case during Franco's regime Carlos Vallejo, a trade unionist with the Comisiones Obreras, was tortured for 21 days in the Via Laietana police station in Barcelona in 1970. 53 years later, a small step towards the end of impunity for the crimes of Franco's regime has been taken thanks to...
Small island states take large greenhouse gas emitting countries to court The small island states of the Pacific are increasingly affected by the adverse effects of the climate and environmental crisis. Rapidly rising sea levels and extreme weather events are threatening their very survival and, with it, the human rights of all their inhabitants. In this way,...
Alessia in Cambridge: Fighting SLAPPs at the 40th International Symposium on Economic Crime Alessia Schiavon, executive director of FIBGAR, presented the PATFox (Pioneering anti-SLAPP Training for Freedom of Expression) project at the 40th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, during the conference entitled "Countering SLAPPs". This conference focuses on mitigating abusive litigation against investigative journalists and...
La Corte Suprema de Justicia de Chile reabre el caso sobre la Operación Cóndor. Este lunes 25 la Corte Suprema de Chile inició el análisis de los recursos de casación que se han interpuesto contra cuatro de los agentes pertenecientes a la policía secreta durante la dictadura militar de Pinochet. Se solicita elevar sus penas a...
El Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU ofrecerá apoyo técnico a Colombia para la implementación de las recomendaciones de la Comisión de la Verdad. La Comisión de la Verdad es un acuerdo firmado entre el Gobierno de Colombia y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia en 2017, el cual surgió como medio para conocer la...
El Consejo de Ministros aprueba la retirada de la Medalla al Trabajo a Franco y a otras ocho figuras franquistas El pasado martes el Consejo de Ministros aprobó la retirada de la Medalla al Trabajo a Franco y a otros ocho altos cargos de la dictadura, ya que consideraban “imprescindible” que los nombres de las diferentes...
