This congress, which is celebrated yearly, tackles the current issues related to humanitarian intervention in the context of international aid. In words of Professor Consuelo Ramón, director of the seminar, “the programme has been designed so as to revise the most important innovations in this field, such as the 20th anniversary of the International Criminal Court, the preservation of cultural assets, human rights, amnesty rights, post-conflict processes and international security. It pays special attention to memory and women rights in these contexts”. She adds, “in this special edition, in which we also celebrate the 20th anniversary of this congress, we will also have a specific panel dedicated to Transitional Justice”.

Javier Palao, dean of the Faculty of Law; Consuelo Ramón, director of the conferences; Javier de Lucas, IDH-UV director; and Magdalena Martín, full professor of Public International Law and International Relations in the University of Malaga, who will give the inaugural conference under the title Transitional justice and gender violence crimes in post-conflict.

The Conferences are part of the research project Strategical revision of European and global safety policies priorities. A test of groups at risk and preventive safety representation, sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and helped by the Meeting of Historic Memory of the Universitat de València.

The Human Rights Institute of the Universitat de València (IDH-UV) has been launching a wide programme of activities since 2008, coinciding with the 70th of the Human Rights Declaration. Founded in 2005, the IDH-UV is part of Consolider project made up of 12 research groups from different Spanish universities and coordinated by Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Institute of the Carlos III University of Madrid.