On 17 July 1936, a group of military officers rebelled against the legitimate government of the Second Spanish Republic. The uprising began in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, in cities such as Melilla, Tetouan and Ceuta. The following day, 18 July, it spread throughout Spain. The coup plotters’ plan was to seize power within a matter...
On Friday 27 February, the first event of the year took place within the framework of the Women's Network for Memory and Democracy (REDMEM), organised together with Comisiones Obreras de Catalunya and in collaboration with the Catalan Association of Former Political Prisoners of Francoism. The conference, held in CCOO Catalunya headquarters located in Via Laietana (Barcelona),...
On Saturday, 24 January 2026, we held the event ‘Stolen Lessons: The Comic’ at the Iván de Vargas Library in Madrid, organised in collaboration with Libros con Memoria, the association that emerged from this project and coordinated by Luis Vivas, a secondary school teacher of geography and history. The event was attended by Luis Vivas...
Three years have passed since Law 20/2022 on Democratic Memory (hereinafter LMD) came into force on 21 October 2022. This law expands and updates the 2007 Historical Memory Law, adapting it to new social and political circumstances and to the recommendations made by the United Nations and other international organisations and NGOs. However, passing a law...
The Minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, presided over the inaugural meeting of the Council for Democratic Memory, a collegiate advisory body designed as a forum for memorial organisations and civil society to participate in the development of public policies on democratic memory. The Council was created in accordance with Law 20/2022...
Latin America is a region that has long carried unresolved historical wounds. With regard to its recent history, the twentieth century was marked by military coups, armed conflict, enforced disappearances and multiple violations of human rights. In particular, during this period repression reached an extreme level of cruelty under the dictatorships that emerged in the...
The Baltasar Garzón International Foundation (FIBGAR) has been officially recognised as a memory organisation with its registration in the State Register of Democratic Memory Organisations, under the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory. This registration represents significant institutional support for the work that FIBGAR has been carrying out in defence of human rights, universal justice...
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...
