Esteban Ibarra Blanco

Esteban Ibarra Blanco

President of the Movement Against Intolerance, the NGO that he founded in the early 1990s as a reaction to episodes of racist violence and other manifestations of intolerance that were spreading throughout Spain. His essential work has been to direct the Office of Solidarity with the Victims of Hate, the Raxen Report and the education programs in values ​​of Tolerance and Human Rights that the association promotes.

Pioneer in the solidarity and pacifist mobilization against the manifestations of intolerance, he has received the recognition of numerous institutions together with the association, among them the Manuel Broseta Foundation, the Government of the Community of Madrid that awarded him the Gold Medal, the Ministry of Social Affairs, from whom he received the Silver Cross for Social Solidarity, as well as the Cross of the Isabel La Católica Order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He is currently a member of the Council for Equal Treatment, the Madrid Observatory against Racism and Intolerance, as well as the Observatory on Violence and Racism in Sport, and promoter of the Civic Network initiatives against Anti-Semitism and Platform against Islamophobia.

He is the author of several books, such as "Los Crimes del Odio", an investigation into neo-Nazi violence in Spain and "La Racista España", which refers to the fight in defense of hate victims. Also from "Times of Solidarity" and "Intolerance, no thanks", compilations of texts against xenophobia, racism and other manifestations of intolerance, along with other materials for analysis and reports.