HUMAN RIGHTS Archives - FIBGAR Fundación Internacional Baltasar Garzón Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://fibgar.es/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-v_vertical_sin_texto-e1585918866851-32x32.png HUMAN RIGHTS Archives - FIBGAR 32 32 Democracy Labs Honouring the Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of the Military Coup, War and Dictatorship https://fibgar.es/en/democracy-labs-honouring-the-day-of-remembrance-and-tribute-to-the-victims-of-the-military-coup-war-and-dictatorship/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:04:51 +0000 https://fibgar.es/?p=25640 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...

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]]> The UN’s liquidity crisis and the increase in cases mark the sessions on enforced disappearances https://fibgar.es/en/25550/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://fibgar.es/?p=25550 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...

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]]> The Spanish Constitutional Court suspends the derogation of Law 14/2018 on democratic memory in Aragón https://fibgar.es/en/the-spanish-constitutional-court-suspends-the-derogation-of-law-14-2018-on-democratic-memory-in-aragon/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:35:27 +0000 https://fibgar.es/?p=23359 Yesterday, the Constitutional Court announced its decision to admit the Government’s appeal for unconstitutionality and to suspend Law 1/2024 repealing Law 14/2018 on democratic memory in Aragon. The Government argued in its appeal filed in May of this year that Law 1/2024 could violate articles 10.1 and 15 of the Spanish Constitution due to the...

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]]> The Law 20/2022, of Democratic Memory, is bearing fruit: three commissions are created to deal with the past https://fibgar.es/en/the-law-20-2022-of-democratic-memory-is-bearing-fruit-three-commissions-are-created-to-deal-with-the-past/ Fri, 10 May 2024 12:29:11 +0000 https://fibgar.es/?p=23253 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...

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]]> A threat to the status quo: the work of women human rights defenders https://fibgar.es/en/a-threat-to-the-status-quo-the-work-of-women-human-rights-defenders/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:00:08 +0000 https://fibgar.es/a-threat-to-the-status-quo-the-work-of-women-human-rights-defenders/ 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...

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]]> International Day of Peace: promoting peace as a tool for the protection of human rights. https://fibgar.es/en/international-day-of-peace-promoting-peace-as-a-tool-for-the-protection-of-human-rights/ Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:30:00 +0000 https://fibgar.es/international-day-of-peace-promoting-peace-as-a-tool-for-the-protection-of-human-rights/ 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...

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]]> War in Ukraine, one year on: ending impunity https://fibgar.es/en/war-in-ukraine-one-year-on-ending-impunity/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 07:51:19 +0000 https://fibgar.es/war-in-ukraine-one-year-on-ending-impunity/ 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...

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