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Aug 30, 2022 · Enforced disappearance is a crime committed by State agents, depriving victims of their rights and dignity. The UN marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances to reaffirm the need for truth and justice.
Learn about the crime of enforced disappearance, a global problem that affects thousands of people every year. Find out how Amnesty International campaigns for justice, truth and reparation for victims and their families.
1 day ago · The Hague, 27 August 2021 – The first edition of the Global Report on Missing persons, published today, ahead of the International Day of the Disappeared, examines why increasing numbers of people are going missing around the world, why many remain missing, and the policies that governments and others can implement in order to address this issue...
5 days ago · Through driving rain, Luz Maria Telumbre travelled to Mexico City from the western state of Guerrero to mark 10 years since the darkest night of her life. Her son, Cristian Alfonso, should be...
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- Untangling Terms
- Zooming in on Enforced Disappearance in IHL and IHRL
- The ICRC’s Contribution to Wider Efforts on Enforced Disappearance
- A Collective Effort
- Towards An Effective and Comprehensive Response
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To determine relevant obligations and adopt appropriate responses, we first have to look at who we are talking about. The notion of ‘missing persons’, although not defined in international law, is found in different IHL rules (here and here), broadly referring to persons reported missing for reasons related to an armed conflict, which includes thos...
The forcibly disappeared, other missing persons, and their families are protected under international law. Enforced disappearance is a violation of IHRL and IHL, both in international and non-international armed conflicts. Under IHL, the prohibition of enforced disappearance was identified as a rule of customary law. IHL obligations related to the ...
The ICRC works to prevent and address enforced disappearance as part of its engagement on missing persons. This is an integral part of its mandate and of its Central Tracing Agency(CTA), which is at the heart of efforts to protect and restore family links, search for missing persons and protect the dignity of the dead. The ICRC’s regular detention ...
Many actors play a key role in preventing people from going missing, searching for those who do, bringing those responsible to justice and responding to the needs of families. This includes efforts to ensure that the specific obligations on enforced disappearance are respected. Civil society actors, including family associations such as the Mothers...
Between IHL and IHRL, the international legal frameworkis clear, robust and comprehensive, but achieving universalization of the ICPPED and the adequate implementation and enforcement of relevant obligations requires political will. This remains a challenge in many contexts. People still go missing and are forcibly disappeared, and families continu...
ICPPED, Article 2, 20 December 2006; preamble of the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance; and Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons, Article II, 9 June 1994. See notably International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent: Resolution II (1984), pg.149; Resolution XIII (1986), pg. 15...
The ICRC explains the legal framework and its work to protect victims of enforced disappearance and other missing persons in armed conflicts and other situations. It also highlights the challenges and opportunities to prevent and address this tragic phenomenon.
Aug 30, 2021 · Enforced disappearance is a serious human rights violation that deprives victims and families of their rights and justice. The UN Secretary-General calls on countries to prevent, search, investigate and prosecute cases of enforced disappearance, and to ratify the international convention.
May 17, 2022 · The news that more than 100,000 people in Mexico are now officially registered as “disappeared” is a tragedy, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday, in a call for action to tackle the...
