events

This year’s theme is Actions for Peace: Our Ambition for the #GlobalGoals. It is a call to action that recognizes our individual and collective responsibility to foster peace.

On 23 August, on the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes is observed.

On 2 August commemorates the last 4,300 Sinti and Roma from the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, who were murdered by the SS that night in 1944 despite their fierce resistance.

The Public Institution Fond Memorijala Kantona Sarajevo, in cooperation with the Programme of the Mechanism for Informing Conflict-Affected Communities of the International Residual Mechanism

On the morning of 12 July 1944, 69 political internees were taken from the Fossoli concentration camp by order of the Gestapo and taken to the Cibeno shooting range to be shot.

What is the theme of World Refugee Day 2023?
This year, World Refugee Day focuses on the power of inclusion and solutions for refugees.

The exhibition ‘Pioneer Women of the European Union’ is a tribute to ten exceptional women who contributed to the development of the Europe we know today. Resistance fighters and Holocaust survivors, outstanding professionals in the political, scientific and cultural spheres…

Henry caring for the wounded in Solferino, Hilda helping hurricane victims in Port Vila, Mohamed monitoring the nutritional condition of the inmates in Baidoa prison, Yulima teaching first aid to people with disabilities in Maracay, and Luna rescuing migrants on the shore of Ceuta…

The Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government, held on 26 April 2019, agreed to establish 5 May as the Day of Homage to the Spaniards deported and killed in Mauthausen and other camps and to all victims of Nazism in Spain, a laudable measure that contributes to multiplying tributes, in towns and cities throughout Spain, to their neighbours who were victims of the National Socialist regime.

Books Not Bombs: Rebuilding Education During War. Whilst the war is raging in Ukraine, a group of educators are working to continue the education reform they strongly believe in.

The people of Guernica experienced the ravages of the Spanish Civil War from the outset, although during the first few months the war campaign did not drastically alter the atmosphere in the town.

In Italy, 25 April is the Liberation Day of Italy from Nazism, a commemoration that remembers and honours the struggle against fascist rule and Nazi occupation during the Second World War.