[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The call for nominations for the "René Cassin" Human Rights Prize 2022 awarded by the Basque Government is open from 12 October to 11 November 2022. The aim of the award is to publicly recognise and reward individuals or groups who, through their professional career, have committed themselves to the promotion, defence and dissemination of Human...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gernika Gogoratuz invites you to participate in the presentation of the book Visión Integral de la comarca Busturialdea-Urdaibai that will be held on the 18th of October in Ertzilla Dorrea. Arrantzaleen Museoa in Bermeo at 18:30h. The event will focus on the current situation and future of Urdaibai and will present the results of the research...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 30 September and 1 October, the MARCH TO BRUSSELS will start under the slogan Rights! No Deaths! organised by more than 130 European organisations and countries of origin of migrants. The march is a demand for the enforcement of international human rights law at borders and the administrative regularisation of people living and working...
María Oianguren and Eneko Calle received the award...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The educational programme "Gernika City of Peace in the 21st Century" today welcomed the visit of the "Albert Schweitzer" Institute from Hürth (Germany), which carries out exchanges with the German School of San Sebastian-Donostia. The group of 47 pupils and 4 teachers travelled around Gernika on two routes, visiting the different important historical-memorial sites of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ICIP (International Catalan Institute for Peace) will hold the award ceremony for the ICIP Peacebuilding 2022 Prize on Wednesday 21 September, the International Day of Peace, which will take place at the Parliament of Catalonia at 5.30pm. This year, the award recognises a plural set of civil society initiatives in the Basque Country "for their...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Terezinha Da Silva, associate researcher at Gernika Gogoratuz in the Territories in Conflict project will moderate the panel "Conflict, violence and gender" at the 6th IESE International Conference to be held from 19 to 21 September in Maputo (Mozambique). Terezinha Da Silva is active in several civil society organisations working in the field of human rights,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gernika Gogoratuz continues one more year with the agreement signed since 2019 with the association Österreichischer Auslandsdienst e.V. (Austria) and this academic year 2022/23 Benedikt Vallant will join us as a volunteer collaborator. Benedikt Vallant will be the third "Friedensdiener" (Peace Server) after Werner Lagler in 2020/2021 and Paul Plöckinger in 2021/2022 and will join our...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]María Oianguren Idigoras, director of Gernika Gogoratuz and Liliana Zambrano Quintero from the University of Deusto and researcher at Gernika Gogoratuz will take part in the summer course "The right to truth as a tool for peacebuilding. International dialogue based on the Colombian experience", which will take place on 7 and 8 September at the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Iñigo Retolaza and María Oianguren will facilitate the Workshop Laboratory "Sharing memories" for the construction of truth and memory methodologies adapted to the Colombian context inspired by the initiatives of "MemoriaLab" and "Afaloste", initiatives for the social construction of memory in the Basque Country that have been carried out by Gernika Gogoratuz. The Workshop Laboratory...
