[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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Gernika Gogoratuz team will today attend the presentation of the Final Report of the Truth Clarification Commission of Colombia after three years of investigation into the causes, responsibilities and consequences of the Colombian armed conflict, carried out within the framework of the Integral System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition. The report is the result...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]María Oianguren, director of Gernika Gogoratuz will moderate the round table IV: Social inclusion of victims of political violence in post-conflict societies in the framework of the CIISE'22 IV International Online Congress on Social and Educational Inclusion to be held on 6 May at the Faculty of Education in Leioa (UPV/EHU). The round table will be...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gernika Gogoratuz will participate in the International Meeting. The Legacy of the Truth Commission - how to continue the work on memory and truth to be held on 20 and 21 April as one of the international guests representing sites of memory of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Alex Carrascosa, artivist and collaborator of...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="28754" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The "Truth Commission of Colombia" and "Truth without Borders" have awarded the certificate of recognition to Gernika Gogoratuz: "for being part of this process of believing again and for your commitment to make the truth of Colombia's exile have a place. Thank you for being part of this coming together of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gernika Gogoratuz joins in the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Eskubidez forum. The Forum of Human Rights and Peace Education Organisations was constituted on 29 March 2007 and to celebrate these fifteen years, Eskubidez has prepared a short video as a reminder and to thank the organisations and people who have worked together during...
