Irídia – Center for the Defense of Human Rights is an association that works to promote and defend human rights, especially civil and political.
Our main objective is to raise human rights protection standards in relation to institutional violence, racism and migration, historical memory, deprivation of liberty and the right to protest.
Promote and defend human rights, especially civil and political, using a methodology based on the combination of strategic litigation, psychosocial intervention, transformative communication and political advocacy from an intersectional feminist approach in order to promote changes in public policies.
Contribute as a useful, rigorous and independent tool to the Catalan, state and international network of organizations and social movements for the defense of human rights.
Our legal, communication and political advocacy actions must be based precisely on facts and data that are contrasted from a position connected to the social, economic and political reality of the moment.
Our action to promote and defend rights must be oriented towards generating cultural, social, legal and/or political changes.
The positions of the entity will be taken independently by its members without pressure from the Administration, political parties, economic or financial powers.
Our organization defends civil and political rights from an economic, environmental, social, gender, and anti-racist justice framework from a global perspective.
The entity must give its members and citizens access to the content of strategic decisions taken, as well as economic decisions and its accounting reality.
Irídia’s team comprises people with different professional backgrounds: lawyers, psychologists, journalists, political scientists and sociologists that provide expertise in the field of human rights protection. We combine paid technical work with voluntary and activist work. The participation spaces are:
The current bylaws of Iridia Association – Centre for the Defence of Human Rights, registered in the Register of Associations on October 19th 2018, are the attached registered Statutes.
