The Council of Europe’s 2024 annual report by the Secretary General, “Towards a New Democratic Pact for Europe”, offers a timely and urgent reflection on the state of democracy across the continent. Despite Europe’s relatively strong performance in global indices on human rights and democratic governance, the report reveals deep and persistent challenges to democratic institutions,...
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...
Europe Day is celebrated every May 9, a commemorative date that invites us to reflect on the origins, the journey and the future of the European project. This day celebrates the Schuman Declaration, pronounced in 1950, as the starting point of a united Europe, whose raison d'être is to ensure peace and cooperation among peoples...
‘For hundreds of thousands of years, man has struggled to make a place for himself in nature. For the first time in the history of our species, the situation has been reversed and today it is indispensable to make a place for nature in the world of man’. With this sentence by the Argentinean poet Santiago...
Since 2011, as a result of Resolution 65/196, the "International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Violations of Human Rights and Victims' Dignity" has been commemorated every 24 March. The day was chosen to honour and pay tribute to the Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who was assassinated on 24 March 1980 in...
Every 27 February is International NGO Day, a day to recognise the invaluable work of NGOs in building a more just and sustainable world. Driven by the will and solidarity of their members, NGOs fill gaps in communities where government has no presence or where aid is insufficient. They also promote citizen participation by involving...
Data Protection Day, celebrated every January 28th, aims to raise awareness about the importance of protecting personal data from a human rights perspective. This date commemorates the signing of the Council of Europe's Convention 108 in 1981, the first international treaty establishing standards for the protection of personal data. The protection of this data is...
International Volunteer Day is celebrated every 5th of December, after it was declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985.. At that time, the UNGA called on States to take measures to raise awareness and recognition of the work of volunteers and the important contribution they make to every community. To this day, millions of...
