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...
On April 23, the Council of Ministers approved an agreement creating three study and technical commissions already foreseen in Law 20/2022, of October 19, on Democratic Memory. The creation of each of these commissions was contemplated in the twelfth, fifteenth and sixteenth additional provisions of the Law. In the twelfth additional provision, the establishment of...
In the last months, in the Valencian Community and in Aragon and Castilla y León, the so-called "Laws of Concord" have been proposed. These legislative measures, to which FIBGAR opposes, constitute a violation of democratic values, as well as a setback of what has been achieved with difficulty by the Spanish society. The approval of just...
El 31 de enero se celebrará el evento de cierre del proyecto PATFox El proyecto“Pioneering AntiSLAPP Training for Freedom of Expression (PATFOx)”, tendrá su cierre en un evento en el que los socios se reunirán para presentar los logros conseguidos. El evento, titulado “Mejorar la defensa anti-SLAPP: Lecciones aprendidas del Proyecto PATFox”, ha sido copatrocinado por la...
