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Journalist Pilar Almenar, new director of the Humans Fest
The Valencia International Film and Human Rights Festival, Humans Fest, organised by the Foundation for Justice since 2009, will have journalist Pilar Almenar as its new director in its 16th edition, which will take place throughout the next year. Almenar will be the new director of the festival.
Humans Lab awards the script for “Alcría”, a short film that rescues the history of the disappeared Valencian hamlet of El Pouet
Its author, Óscar Jiménez, is a journalist who has decided to document the neighbourhood that preceded his current neighbourhood: Campanar in Valencia. A total of eight projects have participated in the Humans Fest audiovisual creation laboratory, to which the following were presented...
Almudena Carracedo and Carlos Marques-Marcet offer master classes open to the public in Valencia within the Humans Fest audiovisual creation laboratory
For its second edition, the Humans Lab has selected a total of eight short film projects on human rights from among the more than 60 that have been submitted. Rafa Molés, director and producer from Valencia, will also give an exclusive pitch session for the...
Humans Lab confirms the participation of filmmaker Almudena Carracedo as a mentor and extends the registration period
Carracedo is known for works such as “You are not alone. The fight against the pack” (Ondas Award 2024), “The silence of others” (Goya Award 2019) and “Made in LA” (Emmy Award 2008) Given the exceptional circumstances following the DANA, the registration period...
Director Carlos Marques-Marcet will be a mentor in the Humans Fest 2024 audiovisual creation laboratory
The filmmaker, who received the Goya for best new director with his first feature film, has just won the Platform Award at the Toronto Film Festival for his new film. His participation will inaugurate the second edition of Humans Lab with a master class that will be...
The visit of Paraguayan activists to Valencia: a bridge between the neighborhood struggle and the defense of human rights
From October 13 to 19, 2024, Paraguayan activists Miguel Sanabria Irepa and Hugo Vázquez Parini, representing FEDEM PY, visited Valencia on a tour organized by the Foundation for Justice to raise awareness of the neighborhood struggle for human rights in...
Participatory colloquium at ICAV highlights the value of dialogue in preventing institutional corruption
Last Thursday, October 17, the Illustrious College of Lawyers of Valencia hosted a participatory colloquium on the Paraguayan neighborhood struggle, within the framework of the visit of various neighborhood activists from the country to Valencia. This conference was attended by...
Successful premiere of the documentary Escuela Vecinal/Paraguay at Espacio La Misti
Yesterday, at Espacio La Misti, the long-awaited premiere of the documentary "Escuela Vecinal/Paraguay" took place, a testimony of the struggle of neighborhood activism in Paraguay against institutionalized corruption. This space, known for being a self-managed place and a...
What does Paraguay's Transparency and Accountability Law mean?
Last July 2024, the Paraguayan Senate approved a controversial bill that, according to human rights defenders and international organizations, seriously endangers the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society...
Challenges and resilience in the fight for human rights in Paraguay
Civil and neighborhood associations play a crucial role in the defense of human rights and the fight against corruption, a problem deeply rooted in the country's sociopolitical structure. From the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner to the 1990s, corruption has been a major problem in the country's sociopolitical structure.