International Congress on Human Rights (2018)

[1][2] The objective of the congress was to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948.

The congress participated, among others, the president of the UN Human Rights Committee Fabián Salvioli, the president of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Virgínia Brás Gomes, the President of the Basque Government Iñigo Urkullu, Jonan Fernández, Manuel Lezertua, Liora Lazarus, Jon-Mirena Landa, Adela Asúa Batarrita...[3] The main objective of the congress was to take stock of the evolution of International Law and Human Rights on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948, as well as to seek a diagnosis of its current moment.

[1][2] The congress focused on how human rights pose emerging challenges that have to do with the management of values such as diversity and solidarity in coexistence or education, and that are reflected in realities such as refugees, migrations, poverty, the environmental challenge, religious or cultural plurality, gender equality, the rights of LGBT people, new forms of exclusion and injustice, or in responses to the threat of international terrorism or war.

[5][6] In the congress there were different conferences, presentations and oral communications by different experts in human rights and international law.

[10][11] The conferences and contributions made at the congress were collected in the book: Landa Gorostiza, Jon-Mirena and Garro Carrera, Enara (coord.)