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...
The recent sessions of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) and the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, held in Geneva on September 16 and 29, sent a clear message: while enforced disappearances continue to rise in the context of conflict, migration, and repression, international mechanisms are facing unprecedented obstacles that threaten their...
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...
If the incorporation of Human Rights in international instruments marked a before and after in the respect for the condition of people and the recognition of their dignity, what would continue would be the commendable work of protecting these faculties recognized in the most important documents. For this purpose, in 1998, it was recognized, by...
Every year since 1981, the International Day of Peace has been celebrated worldwide on September 21. The initiative was born in the General Assembly of the United Nations, as a reminder of the promotion of peace as one of the main purposes set forth in the Charter of the United Nations. It is materialized for...
On February 24, 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine in contravention of the basic principles of international humanitarian law and international human rights law. During these twelve months, the conflict claimed the lives of 8006 civilians and wounded 13,287, displacing 14 million people from their homes and leaving nearly 18 million people in dire need, as highlighted this...
