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Democratic Memory Tag

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The initiative, funded by the Badajoz Provincial Council, brings democratic memory and human rights to secondary school pupils in the province through participatory workshops on the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship. Last week, the Baltasar Garzón International Foundation (FIBGAR) concluded the first round of workshops for the ‘Young People with Memory: Badajoz in Democracy’ project,...

The project will visit eight secondary schools between October and November with the aim of raising awareness amongst the younger generation about the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime, and helping them to recognise, through an understanding of the past, the risks that may threaten democratic coexistence today. The Badajoz Provincial Council and the Baltasar...

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),...

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...