[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] Since 2019, together with Ecological Defence Integrity, FIBGAR is part of the Stop Ecocide Campaign, which aims to include ecocide as a crime in the Statute of the International Criminal Court. As part of its commitment, in 2019 FIBGAR participated in the annual meeting of the Assembly of States Parties of the...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] In 2021 and 2022, FIBGAR carried out the project "Universal Jurisdiction: the commitment for a better world", co-funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, with the aim of educating and training future human rights defenders on Universal Jurisdiction and sensitizing and raising awareness in civil society about...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] In 2020-2021, FIBGAR supported the work of the Panel of Independent Experts convened by the Stop Ecocide Foundation to develop a legal definition of ecocide as the fifth crime of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The panel was composed of twelve jurists from different parts of the world with...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] In 2019-2021, together with Ecological Defence Integrity, FIBGAR financed and supported the completion of a doctoral thesis on the crime of ecocide, which will be an essential input for the debates we are promoting on the adoption of an international convention and the modification of the Statute of the International Criminal...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] The Code is a documentary that recounts the work of judges, prosecutors and lawyers around the world to end impunity for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, proposing a new Code, the Principles of Universal Jurisdiction Madrid - Buenos Aires, which also incorporates economic and environmental crimes, including ecocide. The documentary...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] In 2018, FIBGAR launched the Universal Jurisdiction website, with the aim of providing a tool for the study and development of the principle of Universal Jurisdiction. It is a project of collective elaboration, in which around thirty volunteers and students have participated, in addition to having had the collaboration and contributions of...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"]With the aim of discussing the draft Principles of Universal Jurisdiction approved at the I International Congress on Universal Jurisdiction in 2014, FIBGAR organized regional working groups and 6 seminars were held in Puerto Rico, Paraguay, the Netherlands, Spain and South Africa, gathering the support of more than 100 international experts. In...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"]The I International Congress on Universal Jurisdiction, held in Madrid, Spain, from May 20 to 23 2014, brought together 47 speakers from 10 different nationalities, creating a forum for reflection and debate on the limits and obstacles to achieving an effective Universal Jurisdiction at the global level. For four days, judges, prosecutors,...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] In 2015, FIBGAR organised the Diploma in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Conflict, which counted with a first class teaching staff, such as Pablo de Grieff, Luis Jorge Garay, Jorge Errandonea, Edgar Solera, Jorge Iván Cuervo, among others. The Diploma emerged as an imperative for the Colombian context, immersed at that time...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] In 2014, FIBGAR organised, together with the Metropolitan University for Education and Work (UMET), these first training courses on Human Rights in Argentina, in which an outstanding group of internationally renowned jurists debated on Human Rights and Universal Justice. The programme focused on the most relevant aspects of the concept of Universal...
