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Argentina investigates Álvaro Uribe for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Colombia: universal justice makes progress in Latin America

Fibgar — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0000

In July 2024, the Argentinean justice system took an unprecedented step in the region by admitting a criminal case against former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez for his alleged responsibility in extrajudicial executions committed during his term in office. The recognition of victims and human rights organizations as civil parties, thanks to the decision of...

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Our rights, our future Now!

Fibgar — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:46:54 +0000

On December 10th, for the International Human Rights Day, our vice-president Carmen Durán organized an event together with the City Council of Cambados. Entitled “Our Rights, Our Future Now!”, it served as a space to share and discuss the new challenges that artificial intelligence poses to Justice and Human Rights. On this day, a poster...

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Progress on whistleblower protection in Europe

Fibgar — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0000

In honour of World Whistleblowers’ Day, we want to emphasise the importance of responsible citizens who, despite the risk, choose to fulfil their civic duties in defence of transparency, responsibility and accountability. Whistleblowers are important actors in national and European efforts to detect, investigate and tackle corruption: their exposés have brought to light irregularities in...

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Final event of our project PATFOX in the European Parliament

Fibgar — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:33:53 +0000

The Pioneering Anti-SLAPP Training for Freedom of Expression (PATFOX) project, co-funded by the European Commission and led by FIBGAR, comes to an end with an event that will bring together the consortium partners to present the main achievements and legacy of the project. The event “Improving Anti-SLAPP Defense: Lessons learned from the PATFOX Project“, co-sponsored...

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¿Sabes qué pasó? Weekly Newsletter October 23 to October 29.

Fibgar — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:41:18 +0000

The State of Chile is condemned for a kidnapping case during the Pinochet dictatorship Within the framework of the civil proceeding, the State of Chile will be obliged to compensate Macarena Aguló Marchi for moral damages caused by her kidnapping, being qualified as a “victim of a crime against humanity” and, therefore, imprescriptible. Macarena Aguló...

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International Day of Peace: promoting peace as a tool for the protection of human rights.

Fibgar — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:30:00 +0000

Every year since 1981, the International Day of Peace has been celebrated worldwide on September 21. The initiative was born in the General Assembly of the United Nations, as a reminder of the promotion of peace as one of the main purposes set forth in the Charter of the United Nations. It is materialized for...

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¿Sabes qué pasó? Weekly Newsletter September 04 to 10

Fibgar — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 07:12:45 +0000

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...

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