Human Rights

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Iker Atxa researcher in the project ‘Economy of Peace’, ‘Human Rights and Basque Business’ in Gernika Gogoratuz participates in the 13th United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights held in Geneva from 25 to 27 November. The annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights is the global platform of reference on the subject that...

[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]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...

[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...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gernika Gogoratuz met with Luz Mary Osorio, Human Rights Defender from Antioquia (Colombia) who visited Gernika-Lumo as part of the agenda of the Basque Programme for the Temporary Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a programme managed by Zehar. He was accompanied by Beatriz Ruiz from Zehar, and Mercedes de Madrazo from Mugarik Gabe. In addition to...