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United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances 

 

Exploring Best Practices to Protect Women and Girls from Enforced Disappearance and Its Impact

 

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Working Group will host an event on 30-31 October on women affected by enforced disappearances.

30 October 2012 - Public Session

Room XVII
Palais des Nations, Geneva

To participate, contact the Secretariat of the Working Group:

wgeid@ohchr.org

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http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/disappearance-convention.htm

 

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF ALL PERSONS FROM ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE

"For the purposes of this Convention, "enforced disappearance" is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law."

Status of Ratifications of Convention: http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-16&chapter=4&lang=en

UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances - The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) is the body of independent experts which monitors implementation of the Convention by the States Parties. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CED/Pages/CEDIndex.aspx

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URGENT ACTION

Guidance and Model for the request for an urgent action by the Committee on Enforced Disappearances
E F S

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http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disappearances/Pages/DisappearancesIndex.aspx

UN WORKING GROUP ON ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES

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UN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF VICTIMS OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES


Joint statement by the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances and the Committee on enforced disappearances
to mark the second United Nations International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances – 30 August 2012

GENEVA (30 August 2012) – “Enforced disappearance is not only a crime’ said two United Nations expert bodies working on the issue of enforced disappearance today on the occasion of the second UN International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. “It is an act that negates the very essence of humanity and is contrary to the deepest values of any society”........

 

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Argentina - Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo - Grandmothers of the "Disappeared"
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