The Legal Profession dedicates this week to human rights with the celebration of the IX Congress, dedicated this year to the right to peace and security, and the Annual Conference with the delivery of Human Rights awards.
The winners of this XNUMXth edition of the Awards are the Afghan politician Fawzia Koofi, the Torrejón de Ardoz air base, for the operation to receive Afghan refugees, and the journalist Mikel Ayestaran.
The “Nacho de la Mata” Award, created in 2012 to recognize the work of people or institutions in favor of the most disadvantaged children, has gone to the Valencian lawyer Paco Solans. The awards ceremony, with the attendance of all the winners, will take place on December 15 at the Museo Reina Sofía during the Annual Conference of the Legal Profession.
Previously, the Human Rights Congress will take place at the General Council of Spanish Lawyers, which, in its ninth edition, will be very focused on the war in Ukraine. But it will also analyze migration in times of war, the concept of human security in the current international scene, the right to live in peace or the new challenges of the International Criminal Court on its XNUMXth anniversary.
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The president of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers, Victoria Ortega, and the director of the European Commission in Spain, Mª Ángeles Benítez Salas, participated in the inauguration. Next, at the table 'The scourge of war continues', the speakers were Mira Milosevich-Juaristi, principal investigator at the Elcano Royal Institute for Russia, Eurasia and the Balkans; Pablo Simón, political scientist and professor of Political Science at the Carlos III University; and Nicolás Castellano, journalist from Cadena SER.
Others will be Carlos Romeo, professor of Criminal Law at the University of the Basque Country, Marta García Cienfuegos, head of the Protection Unit at UNHCR and Patricia Fernández Vicens, lawyer specializing in the rights of migrants, Beth Gelb, president of Amnesty International Spain , or Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former director of the UNESCO Cathedral.
