It is difficult to talk about the Day of Remembrance and Tribute to all the victims of the military coup, war and dictatorship without thinking about how limited the reparation they have received throughout these decades of democracy has been. Despite the efforts made by various institutions to offer recognition and moral reparation to the thousands...
On Thursday, 2 October, at the María de Maeztu Equality Space in Madrid, the Women's Network for Memory and Democracy (REDMEM) convened a meeting entitled ‘Progress and challenges of the 30 years of the Beijing Platform’. Three prominent voices in feminism—Cristina Almeida Castro, Laura Selena Báez Benítez, and María Garzón Molina—reflected on the achievements, current...
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...
It is difficult to explain to someone who is unfamiliar with everything that happened during the Civil War, Franco's regime and the transition to democracy what it means that, 50 years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, one of those responsible for crimes during the transition in our country has been summoned to testify....
On Wednesday 7 May 2025, our head of democratic memory and transitional justice, Nadia Gayoso, was at the Provincial Council of Badajoz together with Manuel Candalija, Director of the Department of Culture, Sport and Youth, and Juan Francisco Ceballos, Head of the Historical and Democratic Memory Service, presenting the two activities that FIBGAR will carry...
On 26 March we held the presentation event of our new Network of Women for Memory and Democracy (REDMEM). This occasion was held in collaboration with the Asociación El Club de las 25 and the Equality Unit of the Complutense University of Madrid, in the Paraninfo of the Faculty of Philosophy of the same university. This...
On January 8th, the “Books with Memory” event was organized by FIBGAR and the Valencian publisher Vinatea, in collaboration with the Diputación de Valencia. This event was an opportunity to reflect on Spain's historical memory while expressing solidarity with the families affected by the DANA in Valencia. Maria Garzón, President of FIBGAR, participated alongside Baltasar Garzón and Luis...
On Monday, November 25th, we held the event ‘Towards a European identity: the role of civil society organisations in the promotion of democratic memory policies’ at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In this event, the results of the research developed throughout the year, ‘Towards a European identity: the role of civil society organisations in...
We are happy to announce that FIBGAR will collaborate with Trent University in Canada on Spanish democratic memory initiatives. More specifically, Memorízate (https://www.memorizate.org/), FIBGAR's democratic memory macro-project, and the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War (https://www.vscw.ca/index.php/es), a project of Trent University, weave common bonds to work together occasionally on issues related to the Civil...
