Based on public documents of Amnesty International, this article deal with the pending debt respect of the rights of the victims of the Civil war and the Franco's regime, taking as a frame of reference the international standards of human rights and their application in the world experience on...

The paper analyzes the well-known as "Law of Historical Memory," cleared by the Congreso de los Diputados the last October. This paper contains the main measures to be developed by the Project and a critical view from a legal perspective that shows its deficiencies. The article ends with some...

The present article provides a contextualization of an associative movement, (the Extremeño), whose goal is the so-called "recovery of the historic memory". This association tries to contribute to the construction of an alternative memory, that of the defeated, in opposition to the one...

The article has the main objective to define the term "political prisoner's wife" to understand the experience and the participation of these women outside the Spanish prisons during the Franquist period. The evolution from the individual solidarity and attendance on imprisoned relative to...

This article aims to give a satisfactory explanation on why some of the criticisms that have been made or are made from international law on the Spanish transition, or more specifically, on the treatment of past crimes during this transition. To that end, it will begin by introducing some basic...

From the beginning of the war, the Francoist parastate based its socio-political legitimation on the use of violence in the front and in the rearguard. It had a crystal-clear objective: to end with a democratic regime as the Second Republic was. To achieve that, it had to win the war and to get...

In the present debate on the recovery of the so-called "historical memory", the contemporary International Law can contribute to criteria and mechanisms to confront a process of political transition in Spain that cannot be considered finished while the right to truth, repair and justice of all...

The article summarizes the performances that the Franco government in relation to the policy of archives impelled during almost the forty years of military dictatorship. As a result of the lack of interest which showed their political people in charge and the lack of public investment towards...

This article analyses the left-wing remembrance culture that is known in Spain under the title of recuperación de la memoria histórica ("recovering the historical memory"). It tries to explain why this civil society movement did appear only a few years ago. By selecting certain initiatives and...

The purpose of this essay is the examination of those fundamental conceptions about the memory that can be applied to the historical knowledge; in order to differentiate between them, as well as to highlight the points of connection or convergence, it will be necessary to demarcate the line that...