The International Baltasar Garzón Foundation (FIBGAR), with the support of the Instituto Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, is pleased to announce the regional seminar “Universal Jurisdiction: Critical Perspectives from Latin America”, which will take place on 26 March from 9:00 to 14:30 in an online format. The event will bring together jurists, academics and human...
Since December 2023, in Milei’s Argentina, measures have been implemented that have undermined the quality of life and the rights of the population. Thus, under the justification that they constituted the only possible response to the crisis, this model imposed the pragmatism of economic relations over the promotion of democratic values and human rights. In this...
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...
In Argentina, the ruling party of President Javier Milei has continued with its public policy of attack against the fundamental areas of the transitional process. This time, it has been reported by various mass media, human rights organisations and jurists working on cases against humanity that The Navy has begun to move the extensive General Archive...
Since 2011, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances has been commemorated every 30 August. This was established in 2010 by resolution A/RES/65/209 of the United Nations General Assembly, which expressed concern about the increase in enforced disappearances around the world and the growing number of reports of harassment of witnesses or relatives...
On 28 June 2024, Argentine Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuán asked the federal criminal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina to order international arrest warrants against 25 Myanmar government officials for the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity committed against the Rohingya community between 2012 and 2018. This is the first time that arrest warrants are being...
"It is necessary to shield the Never Again, as an input for democracy, because violence is the hydra with a thousand heads". Jorge Auat. Former General Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office for Crimes against Humanity. The Prosecutor's Office for Crimes against Humanity (PCCH) was created in 2007, as an institutional policy of the Attorney General's Office,...
Last week we participated in the Third World Forum on Human Rights March 20-24, 2023 in the city of Buenos Aires, organized by the International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights (CIPDH-UNESCO) and the Secretariat of Human Rights of Argentina. The World Forum on Human Rights is a space for deliberation and exchange of experiences...
