“Poetry is a good territory to avoid that our lives become a vortex and a vertigo. Poetry is slow, it uses and meditates on words and what we say.The poet represents any human being who refuses to think like everyone else and to parrot other people. In the world we live in, it is necessary to try to take possesion of our own words and to claim words such as humans rights.” The writer opened the conference with these words after a brief presentation by Professor Javier de Lucas, who described him as an “indispensable poet”.

García Montero has eulogized the word loneliness since Baudelaire’s poetry that, in accordance with Poe’s tale “The Man of the Crowd”, states that comtemporary crowds form a whole of loneliness. Something very similar to what Pier Paolo Passolini suggested in one of his reflective writings, where he stated that “no experience was more solitary than a square teeming with people in the 20th century”. And starting with Luis Cernuda and his "Soliloquio del farero", he has claimed solitude as an area of defence of one's conscience, reciting some of his verses: “Acodado al balcón miro insaciable el oleaje,/ oigo sus oscuras imprecaciones,/ contemplo sus blancas caricias;/ y erguido desde cuna vigilante/ soy en la noche un diamante que gira advirtiendo a los hombres,/ por quienes vivo, aun cuando no los vea”. A poem that has also been related to the shipwreck of migrants on European costs.

According to García Montero, the greatest enemy of human rights are closed identities that become supremacists. In the face of this issue, he noted that, from poetry, it is essential to claim some words which are related to human rights' respect. With Pérez Galdós and his first Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), the poet made his own the idea of a civic and law-abiding patriotism. And with Antonio Machado, he has defended the Truth (Verdad) against relativism (“¿Tu verdad? No, la Verdad,/ y ven conmigo a buscarla. /La tuya, guárdatela”), así como la idea de bondad: “y, más que un hombre al uso que sabe su doctrina, / soy, en el buen sentido de la palabra, bueno”.

The sessions, which are held in the Faculty of Law's graduate hall, are organised within the framework of the collaboration agreement between the Ministry of Justice, the Interior and Public Administration of the the Government of the Valencian Community and the Universitat de València.
As explained by Professor Consuelo Ramón, Director of the Department of International Law and also of this conference, "the aim of the agreement is to develop research, training and dissemination work on fundamental rights, mediation, assistance to victims of crime, especially male violence against women, tackled from a legal perspective". In commemoration of the Declaration’s anniversary and with the help of the Government of the Valencian Community, she added “we decided to organise a wide-ranging conference in which some of the most interesting contemporary debates would be presented”.

The conferences can also be followed via the network: “Human rights, international treaties and dismissals in the times of COVID-19” in charge of Antonio V. Semper, full university professor of Employment Law at the University Rey Juan Carlos and Judge of the Supreme Court (Thursday 9th, 16:00 p.m.); “Human Rights, beyond human”, given by Javier de Lucas, full university professor of Philosophy of Law at the Universitat de València (Friday 11, 11:00 a.m.); and the closing conference by Sami Naïr, full university professor of Political Science at the University of Paris VIII, entitled “Human Rights Law in times of a pandemic”.

Furthermore, reputable specialists will intervene in roundtable discussions on some of the priority issues of human rights, such as labour rights, the role of companies in guaranteeing human rights, new approaches against discrimination, the initiatives on the environment and sustainable development or the right to euthanasia.